All the time we are looking for some ways how to improve the speed of processing time. As you could know Importing and Exporting stages sometimes takes a lot of time. In Cyclone REGISTER360 we can run some operations through Command Line Interface to automate processing steps. All that you need to do is type which setting for each step you want to apply and click Enter button. The Cyclone REGISTER360 will do all operations in the background one by one without user interactions. That approach could significantly improve the speed of data processing in some specific scenarios.

To be able to run the Cyclone REGISTER 360 through Command Line Interface you should have the Cyclone WORKFLOW (PUBLISHER PRO) license on your PC. And some commands are not available in REGISTER360 BLK Edition. To check all options and the latest updates you can go to the Online Help page. At the moment the below scenarios are available:

• Convert RTC360 and BLK360 raw data to E57 format

• Convert BLK2GO, BLKARC, and BLK2FLY data to LGS, E57 and RAF formats

When you run any of that processes you can add specific settings, like merging all E57 files to one single file after processing or extracting Rectified images from b2g files. To check all available commands go to the same Online Help page for REGISTER360.

While processing the software will run automatic registration for scanner data from the RTC360 in the following ways:

• RTC360 with VIS link only.

• RTC360 with Cyclone FIELD 360 Links only.

• RTC360 with no VIS or Cyclone FIELD 360 links (Auto Cloud will be used in this case).

• RTC360 with any combination of the above.

Support for the BLK360 G1 includes Auto Cloud for registration. Cyclone FIELD 360 linking is NOT supported for BLK360 G1 data due to the fact that Cyclone FIELD 360 links are stored exclusively on the tablet.

With the latest updates of FIELD360 you can create additional links and close your loops, which will guarantee you correct registration. And to be sure that everything was done fine you can open the project in REGISTER360 and check the accuracy for registration.

So as the final result, you'll get a registered point cloud in E57 format with desired settings. A text file showing the registration results will be written to the user-specified staging folder.

It's the easiest scenario for data processing which include Import, Image Generation, Point Cloud Colorizations, Registering, and Publishing stages, but for Autonomous scanners like BLK2GO, BLK2FLY, and BLKARC scenarios could be more complex with additional file types generation, like Rectified images or separate point cloud which will represent the trajectory of the scanner.

Each format type for the final deliverable includes its own features and commands, for example, if you'll choose to convert b2g file to e57 format you can specify a folder for export, but for other types of formats that option is not available. If you'll choose to convert b2g to lgs format you can specify what types of information that file should include, you can add a pano image, point cloud, ability to make measurements on panoramic images, etc, but for other types of formats, these options will not apply any effect.

For me, it was interesting how to generate a bat file from that line of commands to be able to run it any time I want just with click on it without specifying each time all these commands and changing the path for running the application, so I decided to ask ChatGPT generate code for me with instruction because I have no idea how to do that kind of files. ChatGPT provide me with detailed instructions and examples on how to do that, I realized that it's much easier than I thought. You just need to add a few additional commands to your text and save it as a file with the bat extension. Next, you can run it with double click on it and it'll automatically run all specified processes.

As you could imagine it could be not so easy to remember all variations and all available commands to generate that files, that's why I asked ChatGPT to write for me a code for my site with a text generator based on user-selected options. After a few unsuccessful attempts, it gives me a working code. Below you could find two versions of that text generator. 

The first version of the text generator is suitable for converting RTC360 and BLK360 data to E57 with below options:

• Input path to your RAW data folder - Insert here path on your computer to the folder where raw data from RTC360 or BLK360 is located

• Delete the project in REGISTER360 after processing will be done - if you would like to check the accuracy of registering set this value to No and you'll be able to open that project in REGISTER360  (deleteproject=Y/N)

• Resolution for panoramic images - RTC360 captures all images by default with 5K resolution, here you can define which resolution you would like to get after processing (panores=1024,2048,4096 or 5020)

• Merge all E57 into one single file - set this value to Yes if you would like to group all scans (Bundlede57s=Y/N)

As a result, you can generate text which you should insert into your Command-Line, and generate a .bat file, which you can run with a double click and start the process.

The second version of the text generator is suitable for converting BLK2GO, BLKARC, and BLK2FLY data to LGS, E57, and RAF formats with the below options:

• Select software version: Leica Cyclone REGISTER360 Plus or Leica Cyclone REGISTER360 Plus BLK Edition (register360.exe or register360-BLK.exe)

• Select which type format you would like to generate: E57, LGS, or Raf

• Input path for the RAW data folder

• Input path for Export data folder (available only for E57 files)

• Option for generating rectified images, relevant only for E57 files (recimage)

• Specify interval for generating Waypoints (interval=(n))

• Option for generating Waypoint from Geotag positions (geotag-waypoints)

• Option include Point Cloud into the file, relevant only for LGS files (cloud)

• Option include Panoramic Image into the file, relevant only for LGS files (pano)

• Select a resolution for panoramic images (panores=2048)

• Include measure ability on panoramic images, relevant for LGS files (tvmeasure)

• Delete the project in REGISTER360 after processing will be done (deleteproject=Y/N)

• Align coordinate system for point cloud based on the longest wall (alignb2g=Y/N)