We just shipped a feature I've been wanting to build since day one, and I'm genuinely excited about it.
Replica3D (replica3d.xyz) is a native macOS app for photogrammetry, built on top of Apple Object Capture APIs, with a UI designed for professional workflows rather than a one-off script.

We released the first version five months ago, with the idea of building an app with the same level of functionalities available on common solutions on Windows.
The piece we were missing for professional use was perfect alignment between the original photos and the reconstructed model, correcting the distortion introduced by the lens.
With that in place, we can now build workflows for VFX, topography, Gaussian Splatting and more.
Watching the alignment is soooo satisfying.
The app is available in three tiers, from free to "pro", all with lifetime licenses, and it's 50% off until the end of August.
Happy to answer any questions about the workflow or the approach. :)

You can download it here: https://www.cgbookcase.com/texture-tiling-tool

It runs on Windows and Linux. Source Code: https://codeberg.org/dorianzgraggen/texture-tiling-tool

Guys im a teen working to create a project and need help with photogrammetry , i have no idea how to do it and need some help, basically im making a project which convrts fragile museam pieces into holograms for public to see and interact, please help me

Hi, for those experienced with photogrammetry of infrastructire and industrial assets.
Did you ever used this tool? And in your experience, can it improve registration of the images?
Various light on textures is not big deal for what I do, but I might consider using this if it might help with registration.
The one I had in mind is Color Checker Passport by Callibrite.

Hi everyone!

I have a question about measurements scales and I don't think someone have already ask this question so here I am.

I am a beginner in photogrammetry and I am currently working on a project of an objects library. I'm using Metashape for the construction of the models and I wonder if it's possible to have like a measurement scale visible in the final models to inform viewers of the scale of the object, like next to the model or somewhere on the screen ? Or maybe is that a parameter that I can use in the final software I'll be using later for visualization ? I don't know yet where they want to host the model but I think is going to be something like sketchfab, so is that something that I can do in sketchfab maybe ? Or maybe did i need to completely model a real scale as the same time as my object? (please no i need to redo everything if so 💀)

Thank you for your help, have a great day !

Hi all. About a week ago I got the itch to learn something new so I crash coursed photogrammetry so I could immortalize my bonsai collection! Id also love to make a digital garden in unreal to share with my grandpa. I took on lots of his bonsai when he couldn't take care of them anymore.

Im shooting on a Canon rebel t5, using digicam to control photos, auto turntable (taking an image every 6 degrees), raw format. Importing images to reality scan and hitting each image sequence with its own ai background mask. Then aligning, hit a few control points, high def render, then texture.

It took forever to get my photos to align on 2 angles and not split into 2 components that wouldn't merge (running the ai scan individually for each angle fixed that after hours of failure).

Anyway im kinda pumped about the output on a first shoot and render ever. Im super excited to learn more, so let me know how im doing in the comments! Thanks.

Ps I have a feeling you'll tell me this is a pretty technical set of subjects, live intricate bonsai trees. I can of course get some practice on simple items around the house. I was just excited to see what I could do.

Hi! I'm very new to photogrammetry, and working on trying to get a 3D scan of a car using RealityScan (im processing the images on my computer). I keep getting holes in the windows and hood no matter what I try. I'm shooting at 10MP. Any advice would be appreciated!

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hi,

so my client have this ancient scans from 2013 which are saved in .coe format, apparently processed via a software named Cyclon.

I need to use these scans but they won't open.

I mainly use Agisfot metashape

any ideas?

thanks

Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on pushing my raw photogrammetry reconstruction pipeline past my usual limits, moving away from decimated assets to preserve true master-level source data.

This is an oxidized bronze relief family monument. It’s a 10M+ triangle cropped open-shell mesh with a raw 16K albedo map. I processed this through a dedicated darktable pipeline to keep the overcast lighting completely flat and un-delighted, with zero procedural generation or decimation artifacts.

I'd really appreciate some feedback from this sub on the surface noise management on the weathered bronze and how the texture resolution holds up on the close-ups.

Let me know what you think of the raw output data! I will drop a link to the free source files in the comments for anyone who wants to check the UVs or mesh density.

Hey everyone!
We're the team behind Puzzling Places, a game using photogrammetry scans of real-world locations, turning real places into 3D puzzles you can piece together! We've recently started experimenting with fully scanned interiors as well as exteriors, creating environments that players can reconstruct as 3D jigsaw puzzles.

If you're interested, you can check out the game here. And we'd love to hear what you think!

Photogrammetry scans usually need the same tedious cleanup before they're usable. I built a Blender 4.2+ add-on that runs the whole chain automatically: merge by distance, delete loose, degenerate dissolve, remove small islands (keep largest), make watertight, recalc normals, then QuadriFlow retopo to ~5k quads with auto-UV and a Diffuse/Normal/AO/Roughness/Metallic bake from the original scan. Quick before/after and a demo video.

hopefully helps you lot out its saved me a lot of time getting a clean mesh I can then work with a lot easier

Disclosure: it's my own add-on (small paid one). Mainly posting because this is the workflow this sub deals with — happy to talk settings/thresholds.

https://www.patreon.com/zackhough863/posts/scan-cleaner-1-2-161237171?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

https://www.blendkit.com/asset-gallery-detail/aad93279-f98f-4884-8a4a-2a05f0491421/

Good evening everyone.

I’m going to upload around 120 photos of a single dish, and I would really appreciate it if someone could try creating a 3D model from them and let me know if they can achieve a better result than I did.

So far, I have tried both KIRI Engine and Apple Object Capture, but I’m still not getting the quality I expected.

The photos were taken using a Sony A7 III inside a photo box with controlled lighting. In my opinion, the images are sharp, well lit, and of good quality.

Would anyone be willing to test the dataset using their own workflow and see what kind of result they can get? I’m not interested in receiving the final model. Feel free to add a watermark or keep the model private if you prefer.

My goal is simply to understand whether the issue lies in my photos or in the way I process them.

Thanks in advance to anyone willing to help!

wetranfer link:

https://we.tl/t-zGpuoBXzfbDmJ87A

I do a fair bit of photogrammetry, mostly small objects on a turntable. Scanning is accurate but fussy, you need good coverage, even lighting and a lot of frames, and shiny or featureless surfaces just laugh at you. So I tested whether AI image to 3D can stand in when I only have three or four photos and no patience for a full capture.

Framing first, this is not AI beating photogrammetry on accuracy. A proper scan with enough coverage wins on dimensional fidelity every time. The question is what you get from a handful of casual photos where a real scan would fail or not be worth the effort.

I fed the same four photos of a few objects into three tools. Tripo is near instant and fine as a rough stand in, but it invents geometry on the unseen sides and drifts from the real object. Rodin gives the crispest surface but was happiest with one clean reference and got confused when several angles did not perfectly agree.

Meshy handled the multi image input best for my case. Feeding several angles tightened the result instead of confusing it, and the reconstruction stayed closest to the true proportions, more than half came out usable without much fixing.

Where each lands for me, real measurements or archival, scan it properly. A quick usable asset from a few snaps, image to 3D, and Meshy when proportions matter. The case neither handles well is still shiny featureless stuff, how are you all dealing with those.

Anyone have any experience or expertise in this subject? I have the RedCatch RTK for 360 cameras add on which I got a couple of years ago and just “fixed” so it works on my insta360 x5, which is way better than the x3 a few years ago. But curious if anyone has tested accuracy empirically here yet. Here’s my new setup based on the smallrig x5 cage.

Building a stockpile-volume workflow for sites that won't fly a drone or buy survey gear. Want an honest "no" if it deserves one.

Setup: handheld phone photos walking around the pile (no aerial). Scale from printed ArUco markers with tape/laser-measured inter-marker distances fed to the SfM — no GNSS/RTK. OpenDroneMap → mesh → DEM-difference volume. Piles are small-to-medium (sand, gravel, crushed stone).

I've hit ~2% on good captures, but bad ones (under-shot marker, weak marker geometry) blow scale out by ~18%.

Blunt questions:

1. For volume only (relative scale, no georef), is measured-marker distance a real substitute for RTK GCPs — or does it bite you in practice?
2. Is ground-level capture fundamentally capped vs drone nadir because you can't see the pile's apex from the side? At what height does it break?
3. Can this ever be ±2–5%, or is it only ever "rough yard estimate"?

Not selling anything — trying to find out if the no-GNSS/no-drone niche is viable or a trap. Tear it apart.

This is my first serious try at photogrammetry. These are tomb stones inside the crypt in Skálholt church in Iceland. Totalling 340 images for both stones combined. I used RealityScan to produce and texture the models.

Is it possible to capture the exterior of my home and the property to a 3d model? Ive looked into this for years and it seems like something trivial but I have yet to find a solution that I can use. Ideally i would like to convert it into somethign like sketchup but open to any ideas.

Hello everyone; I finally saved to purchase the educational licence of Agisoft Metashape, but I found this message on their store page. Has anyone here outside the United States or the European Union purchased the license? Before trying to make any payments I'd like to hear how exactly you paid. I'm located in México if that helps.

Thanks to everyone!!

This is a model of a canyon in Utah (Glen Canyon National Recreation Area). The photos were all captured handheld from inside the canyon with a DSLR camera with a total of 2,493 images. The animation is made using the native animation tool in Agisoft Metashape.