XGRIDS Lixel Cyber Color Overview

This video will showcase a dataset collected with the XGRIDS Lixel L2 Pro terrestrial SLAM LiDAR scanner using Lixel Cyber Color, a gaussian splatting software from XGRIDS. We will take a look at the tools available in LCC and how to use them. 

In this video I’m going to give you a first look at some of the capabilities of the XGRIDS Lixel L2 Pro and how simply we can product high quality models from Lixel Cyber Color. First, we will open up and create a project in Lixel Cyber Color. Once you have the folder of your scan selected there are a few options for the processing. We will name the model, then choose our processing parameters. Quality, Video memory limit, and PPR will all have effects on the processing time while the Import Workspace option is for saving a local copy of the scan directly from the L2 itself. Since the mission folder from my scan is already saved locally I will select ‘No’ in Import Workspace. Clicking Start to process will queue the project. 

Clicking on Start Rebuild will start the processing. You will receive a notice to stop any background tasks for the best processing results. Once processing has finished, we can open our model and take a look. This scan was taken in about a minute and focused on capturing this vehicle. In the Settings I can toggle On the Scanning path. Now we can see the two revolutions I did of this vehicle and how well I was able to reconstruct it.   

Let's take a look at some of the other tools available in LCC. We can save a new Starting point. Now this will be the view when we open the project in the future. In Spatial roaming we can create a short clip that will move view to view by adding key frames with the desired view. Next to that we can adjust how we navigate the views and even drop an avatar in 3D space to give us a sense of scale. Next, we have our clipping tool that we can use to cutout what we want to see or clear things we don’t. The Notes tool will allow us to select points in the model and attach photos, annotations, and/or links to them. The Measurement tool will allow measurements point to point as well as areas. The Point Cloud toggle will show us the LiDAR scan from our SLAM scanner. Finally, we can save our changes and export in PLY or LCC.