ContextCapture User Guide

Formats

The --format parameter can be chosen among the values below:

  • Formats natively supporting level-of-detail:
    • "3SM" (Bentley Scalable Mesh and Web-Ready Scalable Mesh)
    • "3MX" (ContextCapture 3MX)
    • "Cesium 3D Tiles"
    • "ESRI i3s" (ESRI i3s scene database)
    • "Google Earth KML"
    • "SpacEyes3D" (SpacEyes3D Builder layer)
    • "OSGB" (OpenSceneGraph binary)
    • "LODTreeExport"
    • "S3C" (Smart3DCapture S3C)
  • Formats only supporting single-resolution meshes:
    • "OBJ" (OBJ wavefront)
    • "FBX" (Autodesk FBX)
    • "Collada"
    • "STL" (StereoLithography)
    • "OpenFlight"
    • "Legacy" (Collada and XML files, read more below)

To know more about the different formats, please refer to the ContextCapture User Manual.

For formats only supporting single-resolution meshes, the level-of-detail structure is materialized by the file structure described below.