The Reference model tab manages the internal model of the reconstruction. It allows you to control model quality, to apply retouches or reset the reconstruction.

Reference 3D model tab

The reference model is the reconstruction sandbox. It stores internally a model which is progressively completed as productions progress, to which retouches can be applied, and from which future productions are derived.

The reference model is managed tile by tile, and each tile can be controlled individually.

An Unprocessed tile without retouch becomes Completed as soon as a production including this tile is complete.

Model contents

For a 3D reconstruction, a tile is made of a textured 3D mesh in native format ; for an orthophoto/DSM, a tile is made of a DSM file and and orthophoto file in TIF format.

Tiles of a 3D reconstruction may be displayed individually in ContextCapture Viewer: from the tile context menu (right click), choose Open tile with ContextCapture Viewer.

Tile context menu

Note: To ease quality control of a 3D reconstruction, it is advised to perform a first complete production in 3MX or S3C formats: 3MX and S3C formats include dynamic level-of-detail and paging and allows you to smoothly navigate the entire reconstruction in ContextCapture Viewer or in the integrated Quality control interface.

To manage the reference model, the following features are proposed:

• Touchup: Fix the current reference model with retouches.
• Reset Clear a selection of the reference model, so that it is recomputed by later productions.
• Software Editions: Inspect and tag reference model tiles.
• Inter-tile color equalization.