Uploaded May 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
UPDATE: Capturing Reality recently released a feature called "Cut by Box" which helps you crop your scan with clean, straight, border edges - try it out! It's a very simple tool (the box disappears after you crop, so for more advanced cropping, this tutorial is still useful.
Showing you how to clean up large border triangles for your photogrammetry meshes using Reality Capture and Mesh Mixer.
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:28 - RC: Select Marginal Traingles / Select Large Traingles
1:19 - RC: Lasso Tool
2:24 - Mesh Mixer: decimating in RC before importing
5:00 - Mesh Mixer: import
5:36 - Mesh Mixer: plane cut
7:59 - Mesh Mixer: turning off snapping
9:07 - Mesh Mixer: using sculpting to smooth out corners
10:20 - Mesh Mixer: selective plane cut
13:04 - Mesh Mixer: quickly closing holes
16:09 - RC: Sketchfab unwrap parameters (one 4k texture)
16:48 - RC: texturing every triangle
17:30 - Free model: sketchfab.com/3d-models/antibes-1-galerie-renee-laporte-4bbaea5af0d1471e91ffd57103552826
Keyboard shortcuts
RC:
CNTRL (while in Lasso tool): select more triangles
SHIFT (while in Lasso tool): deslect more triangles
Mesh Mixer:
CNTRL SHIFT P: Show/Hide Printer Bed
F (after selected triangles): Fix/Replace triangles
X: delete selected triangles
Windows:
CNTRL SHIFT N: make new folder
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UPDATE: Capturing Reality recently released a feature called "Cut by Box" which helps you crop your scan with clean, straight, border edges - try it out! It's a very simple tool (the box disappears after you crop, so for more advanced cropping, this tutorial is still useful.
Showing you how to clean up large border triangles for your photogrammetry meshes using Reality Capture and Mesh Mixer.
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:28 - RC: Select Marginal Traingles / Select Large Traingles
1:19 - RC: Lasso Tool
2:24 - Mesh Mixer: decimating in RC before importing
5:00 - Mesh Mixer: import
5:36 - Mesh Mixer: plane cut
7:59 - Mesh Mixer: turning off snapping
9:07 - Mesh Mixer: using sculpting to smooth out corners
10:20 - Mesh Mixer: selective plane cut
13:04 - Mesh Mixer: quickly closing holes
16:09 - RC: Sketchfab unwrap parameters (one 4k texture)
16:48 - RC: texturing every triangle
17:30 - Free model: sketchfab.com/3d-models/antibes-1-galerie-renee-laporte-4bbaea5af0d1471e91ffd57103552826
Keyboard shortcuts
RC:
CNTRL (while in Lasso tool): select more triangles
SHIFT (while in Lasso tool): deslect more triangles
Mesh Mixer:
CNTRL SHIFT P: Show/Hide Printer Bed
F (after selected triangles): Fix/Replace triangles
X: delete selected triangles
Windows:
CNTRL SHIFT N: make new folder
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twitter.com/Azadux
