This workflow is available for Blink, Orbis and Focus scans. You can use all scan types in one project.
NOTE: The Focus workflow is currently in beta state.
There are two options for uploading scans to Sphere XG and starting the workflow, i.e. pre-register and upload via Stream or upload manually.
The changes during upload, processing and registration are made on a draft project. Scans and changes are not available in the Sphere XG Viewer until they are published. You can still discard the changes you have made before publishing. In other words, if you were adding changes to an existing project, and then discard them, these changes will not be available in the Sphere XG Viewer.
Starting from SCENE 2025.2, projects registered in SCENE will be displayed as registered in Sphere XG and vice versa.
Pre-registration and Upload to Sphere XG via Stream
See:
Your First Scan Project in the Blink user manual.
Stream Workflow with the Orbis in the Orbis user manual.
Stream Workflow with a Focus Scanner in the Focus user manual.
After pre-registering the scans in Stream and uploading them to Sphere XG, they will be processed and registered automatically.
Manual Upload to Sphere XG
You can also upload scans manually as follows:
1. On the Sphere XG Dashboard, go to the Projects page.
2. Select an existing project or create a new one.
3. If you create a new project, upload scans as explained under Bring Your Data into the Cloud, section Bring your Data into the Cloud.
OR
3. If you want to import data into an existing project, choose one of the following options to import scans:
Click the Draft breadcrumb at the top of the viewer to open the project draft page and click the
icon.Click the Edit scans button in the project structure view to open the project draft page and click the
icon .Click the Import button in the project structure view and click the Scans tile.
Then select the scans from the file system. The following page will be displayed
4. Optional: Add more data to the project by clicking into the Added data field.
Workflow type and publishing options
Select Automatic to publish the project automatically.
Select Manual review, if you want to review the project before publishing.
Select Generate point cloud if you want to merge all scans into a point cloud before publishing.
Select Reflection filter (beta) if you want to filter out reflections caused by reflective surfaces.
For Orbis scans, you an also make settings regarding the capture environment and colorization. In addition, you can set activate filters to remove transient points, detect and exclude outliers and reduce noise.
5. Click Import.
The automatic workflow will start.
The workflow has the following steps:
Uploading: The scans will be uploaded to the cloud.
Process: The scans will be processed, i.e. scan point clouds will be created and various other settings regarding the offset, colorization and filtering will be made.
Register: The scan point clouds will be registered, i.e. the pre-registration results will be refined and improved.
Publish: If you have marked checkbox Generate point cloud, all scan point clouds will be merged into a project point cloud. If all previous steps have finished successfully and you have selected the Automatic workflow type, the project will be published automatically and you can access it in the Sphere XG Viewer, see below. However, you can still change and re-publish the registration. If you have selected the Manual review workflow type, you will be prompted to check the registration result in the Registration - Inspect view before publishing. In this view, you can also edit the registration.
During each workflow step, the progress and status are displayed, see figure above.
If the registration finishes successfully, you will get a notification in Sphere XG and via email.
For more detailed information, see our Sphere XG User Manual.