Inspect the Registration of Blink Scans

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If uploading, processing and registering Blink scans finishes successfully, you can still choose to inspect the registration. However, this is not required.

If you want to inspect the registration, click the icon on the Manage data page.

Figure 1-89 Open the Registration - Inspect page

If uploading, processing and registering Blink scans finishes with issues, this is usually due to a failure in registration, i.e. one or more scans could not be connected. You will be notified by an error message in Sphere XG and via email.

In this case, you can either click the Adjust registration button on the error notification page, or you can go back to the Manage data page and click the icon. The icon will contain a red dot signaling a registration issue.

You can quickly switch between the project draft on the Manage data page and the live project by clicking the Live and Draft toggles in the breadcrumbs.

Figure 1-90 Registration failed notification in Sphere XG

The Registration - Inspect page will be opened. On this page, you can inspect the current registration. Changes are not possible. If you want to change the registration, click the Edit registration button at the top right. See Edit the Registration of Blink Scans for more information.

The Registration - Inspect page provides various options to view the registered scans and connections.

Figure 1-91 Inspect registration page

View the Registration Report

The overall result of the registration is displayed by the following indicators:

Good registration quality, i.e. the scan alignment is precise. In this case, you can publish the project.

Medium registration quality. You should inspect the registration and maybe edit it.

Poor registration quality. The scan alignment has significant issues and you should edit and then repeat the registration.

Clicking one of these indicators opens a quality report summary. For a detailed report, click the Show detailed report button.

The quality report is opened. See explanations directly on the quality report page for further information. Hovering the mouse pointer over a connection highlights the connection and the connected scans.

Clicking a connection opens a detail page with information about the connection.

Figure 1-92 Quality report with medium registration quality

Registration Views

On the right side of the screen, you can switch between 2D and 3D view.

Figure 1-93 2D view

Figure 1-94 3D view

Registration View Settings

You can adjust various view settings to help identify scans and connections.

Click the icon in the toolbar on the right side.

The following options are available:

Color mode

  • Color by scan: Each scan gets an individual color to distinguish it from the other scans.

  • Original color: The scans are displayed in their original color to provide a first impression of the original capture colors (without color balancing).

Scan markers

  • Show all: All scan markers are displayed.

  • Show only for visible scans: Only the markers of visible scans are displayed. Markers of scans that are hidden below connections and other scan markers are not displayed.

  • Hide all: All scan markers are hidden.

Registration connections

  • Show connection lines: Shows or hides the connection between scans.

  • Quality color coding: If this switch is activated, the connections are colored based on the registration quality, i.e. green for good quality, yellow for medium quality and red for poor quality. If this switch is deactivated, the connection lines are displayed gray.

    Recenter View

    Click the icon to recenter the view.

    Create a Clipping Box

    Click the icon to create a temporary clipping box.

    You can resize and rotate the clipping box as described in Rotate and Resize the Clipping Box Manually.

    To reset the clipping box to its original state, click the icon.

    Click the icon again to remove the clipping box.

    Options for Selected Scans

    If you select one or more scans in the Viewer, another toolbar is displayed at the bottom showing the number of selected scans and the following options.

    Hides or shows the selected scans. You can also hide and show single scans in the project structure view.

    If you have selected a scan, clicking this icon selects all connected scans. Then you can move all scans at once without losing the connections between these scans.

    Centers on the selected scans.

    Clears the selection. Note that this option does not show scans that were hidden. Click the icon of these scans in the project structure view to show them again.