Interactive Registration Workflow Examples

1238888

In this chapter, you will find step-by-step descriptions of two standard workflows, using the automatic registration tools and the interactive registration tools. Note that the interactive registration allows you to use automatic and manual steps in one registration procedure. Therefore, we strongly recommend to watch the detailed tutorials in the FARO Academy. These tutorials include, for example, the following workflow approaches:

• Hybrid registration where you can add targets.
  Hybrid registration which allows you to use cloud-to-cloud and target connections in the same registration.

• Register to reference points using the georeferencing tools.

To open the FARO Academy:

1. Log in to the learn.faro.com.
   If you do not have an account yet, you can use your Sphere XG account to log in or you can create a new account.

2. Go to tab On Demand, search for SCENE and launch course FARO SCENE Interactive Registration.

Optional Registration Settings Before you Start the Interactive Registration

Go to the Registration Report settings and change the settings as explained in the NOTE section.

Open the Interactive Registration

1. To start the interactive registration, click tab Registration in the workflow bar.

2. Then click icon to access the interactive registration.

If required, select the cluster that you want to register.

3. Click icon to open the interactive registration view.

Registration works for the selected cluster. If no cluster is selected, it works for the cluster that is displayed in the registration view as well as its subclusters.

Make Registration Objects more Visible with a Clipping Box

As a first step, you should make the objects in the registration view, scans and connections, as well as targets and reference points, more visible by setting a smart clipping box. See explanations in Smart Clipping Box.

Workflow: Coarse and Fine Registration with the Automatic Registration Tools

1. Make sure that the clusters you want to register are unlocked.

If the scans have not been pre-aligned with Stream or if the pre-aligning is not satisfactory, run a coarse (top-view-based) registration.

2. For this purpose, click icon Coarse Registration.
   Note that the coarse registration will remove any prior registration.

If required, you can inspect connections as well as add or delete connections. If the scans are not in a good position, you can go to the Correspondence View and correct the scan positioning manually. At this point, the connections are still blue because they have not yet been refined.

3. Optional: Adjust the fine registration settings.

4. When the scans are positioned correctly, refine the registration with a fine registration by clicking icon .
   

5. Check the scan point errors in the Scan Manager.

6. Lock the cluster(s) that you have registered.
   Otherwise, the registration will be displayed as not verified.

Workflow: Registration with the Interactive Registration Tools

SCENE versions prior to 2025.0: Make sure that the scans are pre-aligned, either in Stream, with a coarse registration or manually in the correspondence view. Starting from SCENE 2025.0, pre-registering scans is no longer required. However, there are differences depending on the scanner that was used for capturing the scans:

Orbis and Orbis Premium

1. If required, add or delete connections.

2. Click Refine New Connections to run a registration on the new connections.
   SCENE evaluates whether to run a coarse or a combination of coarse and fine registration.

3. Click Optimize Scan Positions.
   This procedure takes just a few seconds and allows you to view the final positions of the scans. The scan statistics are not yet updated.

4. If you are satisfied with the scan positions, click Update Statistics.
   This will update the Scan Manager.

5. Lock the cluster(s) that you have registered.
   Otherwise, the registration will be displayed as not verified.

Focus

1. Create a new cluster.

2. Drag two scans you want to register into this cluster.

3. Add a new connection between these scans.
   This works best if you create a smart clipping box, see Smart Clipping Box

4. Click Refine New Connections to run a registration on the new connections.
   SCENE will try two options, i.e. coarse and fine registration or only fine registration. The combination of coarse and fine registration usually has better results if the scans have not been pre-registered.

If the refining does not work, go to the correspondence split view and select correspondences between the scans, see Correspondence Split View.

5. Drag the next scan into the cluster and repeat steps 3 and 4.

6. Click Optimize Scan Positions.
   This procedure takes just a few seconds and allows you to view the final positions of the scans. The scan statistics are not yet updated.

7. If you are satisfied with the scan positions, click Update Statistics.
   This will update the Scan Manager.

8. Lock the cluster that you have registered.
   Otherwise, the registration will be displayed as not verified.