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How to Photoscan Easy and Free - Meshroom and Blender

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Steve Lund dives into Photogrammetry with the new Open Source tool Meshroom and takes you through the steps to making your own first succesful 'photoscan'. See also this topic on Blender Artists if you need support.

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Learn how to do photogrammetry and create some amazing 3D scans with Meshroom and Blender for free in this tutorial! All you need is a camera and a computer!

And here's the result of this project:

About the Author

Steve Lund

A geek to everything CG! A 3D instructor, and founder of CG Geek.

18 Comments

  1. David Almaraz Guajardo on

    Hi, thanks for the tutorial , but i cannot do so well. This massege appears when i clic in the start button: "Sensor width doesn't exist in the database for image". I delete many images and clic start again but the massage appears again and again whit a diferent image names

  2. David Almaraz Guajardo on

    This massage appears to: "Please add camera model(s) and sensor width(s) in the database". Do you know how can i fix that, i seen the camera model in the code but i dont know how can i open the database for Meshroom. Sorry im not even know where is the database.

    • Your need to edit the file "cameraSensors", you find it under "..\Meshroom\aliceVision\share\aliceVision\".
      Then you enter your Camera Brand, model and the Camera Sensor size.
      As an example for smartphone Redmit 4x
      "Xiaomi;Xiaomi Redmi 4x;6.4"
      The sensor size you must search for it on the internet

      • David Almaraz Guajardo on

        Hi MYUQIYU, thank you for answer me, but maybe thats not the problem because i open the file cameraSensors.db and i find the model and the sensor size of the camera that i used in the list that appears in the file. Do you know any other solution? what else can be plaese?again, Thank you for your help

        • Try to make an entry without the "/ 1100D". On your first image the program shows only "Canon EOS REBEL T3" in big letters.
          So you can try with the entry "Canon;Canon EOS REBEL T3;22.2"

  3. Bernhard Engstler on

    My excitement level went from "super awesome" down to flat line when I realised halfway through the process that I need CUDA for it to work :(

  4. I tried the last Meshroom with Windows x64 and Linux and it stops working at every node.
    I tried fixing the status fil (replacing the "ERROR" line with "SUCCESS" and the 0 value) but it still painfull.
    Is there ia good fix?

  5. I have been trying to photscan now with different amounts of pictures but it does not seem to work for me.
    I only come to "PrepareDenseScene" after that is stops and I can start it but it stops again 5 seconds later.

    What can I do?

  6. Great video on this process! Has anyone had the problem of MeshRoom stopping during processing and having to hit "Start" again? I would assume it should just run through completion.

    Also, after doing this I've been getting an error in the console window:
    [1/11](2/3) FeatureExtraction
    ERROR:root:Error on node computation: [WinError 183] Cannot create a file when that file already exists:
    And then this stops it too...
    Any ideas?
    Thanks
    harold

  7. I have successfully gotten it to work, but the result comes out unrecognizable. Do you have any tips for getting a better model out of the scans?

  8. Just downloaded, unpacked the files, added 50 photographs - and waited 45 minutes (i7 2600k / NVIDIA 980). Then I got a fine first scan. No issue.
    Used a printed letter as a background.

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