FARO SCENE 3D Laser Scan Registration

Course details

FARO SCENE is an important tool for 3D laser scanning that can help you process and manage scan data more efficiently. This course covers a comprehensive workflow for 3D laser scan processing, registration, and quality control (QC) using FARO SCENE software. Instructor Paul Tice covers setting up your project registration, navigating through your point cloud data in FARO SCENE, noise identification and removal, and validating the overall registration of your point cloud data set. He also goes into visualizing point clouds, point cloud exporting options and applications, integration options in FARO SCENE, using third-party data, and more.

Learning objectives
Using tools and menus
Creating a FARO SCENE project
3D laser scan registration and quality control
Navigation controls for viewing in 2D and 3D
Visualizing point clouds
Manually color correcting your scans
Creating meshes
Point cloud exporting options and applications
Using FARO SCENE data in third-party software

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - What you should know
03 - Exercise files
04 - Hardware demo

1. Getting Started

05 - The interface - Classic vs. Ribbon
06 - Using tools and menus
07 - Setting your settings options menu

2. Setting Up Your Project Registration

08 - Project creation, file navigation, and workspaces
09 - Importing for classic or ribbon interfaces
10 - Pre-processing scan files

3. 3D Laser Scan Registration and QC

11 - Navigation controls for viewing in 2D 3D
12 - Visibility settings
13 - Using clipping boxes
14 - Using the measurement tools
15 - Noise identification and removal
16 - Top-down and cloud-to-cloud registration tools
17 - FARO 2018 and 2019 preprocessing with top-down and cloud-to-cloud
18 - Correspondence view quality control
19 - Target-based registration, part 1
20 - Target-based registration, part 2
21 - Using the Transformation tools for shift correction
22 - Manually aligning X, Y, and Z shifts
23 - Manually aligning tilted and angled shifts
24 - Advanced registration techniques, part 1
25 - Advanced registration techniques, part 2
26 - Advanced registration techniques, part 3
27 - Advanced registration techniques, part 4
28 - Advanced registration techniques, part 5
29 - Advanced registration techniques, part 6
30 - Registration using survey data

4. Visualizing Point Clouds

31 - Using project point cloud or scan point cloud for visualization
32 - FARO SCENE in virtual reality
33 - Manually color correcting your scans
34 - Creating Orthophotos from scans
35 - Creating meshes

5. Exporting and Conversion

36 - Point cloud exporting options and applications

6. FARO SCENE Apps

37 - Stand-alone apps - Overview

7. Interoperability of FARO SCENE

38 - Using FARO SCENE data in third-party software
39 - Using third-party data in FARO SCENE

Conclusion

40 - Next steps