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Inspect the Registration of Blink Scans

You can check the automatic registration of Blink scans and then edit the registration to improve the output or fix issues.

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

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

If uploading, processing and registering 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 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.

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.

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.

Registration Views and Options

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

  • In the 2D view, you can click one of the icons to select the top, front or right side view. Click and hold a point in your project to move it to the left, right, up and down

  • In the 3D view, you can switch between the orthographic and the perspective camera, see also explanations under 3D View Toolbar. Left-click and hold a point of the project to rotate the project around this point. Right-click a point in the project to move the project to the left, right, up and down.

  • Clicking the icon in the toolbar on the right side opens a form, in which you can set colorization options for scans as well as define visibility settings for scan markers and connections between scans.

If you select one or more scans in the , another toolbar is displayed at the bottom of the screen.

This toolbar provides options for (from left to right):

  • Hiding and displaying the selected scans.

  • Selecting all scans connected to the (previously) selected scans.

  • Centering the view on the selected scans.

  • Clearing the selection.

For more detailed information, see our Sphere XG User Manual.

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