Provide AIM with an export folder containing the following:
In the Report stage tab, choose subtab Properties -> subtab Publish options.
Tick the box [x] E57 (as separate files). Conditional:
If you scanned the entire project without colour, additionally export grayscale image panoramas by ticking the box [x] Pano images.
Click "Publish".
If you scanned with colour, you do not need to export panorama images separately; the E57 files already contain them.
When you are done, the export folder should look as follows:
name-of-your-export-folder/
BLK360_3501552_Setup3.e57
BLK360_3501552_Setup4.e57
...
Settings for best quality
Before importing your scans ("setups") into REGISTER 360, in the Settings, change the Pano image dropdown to the highest resolution. This is optional. It will increase the import time, but also the photo resolution.
Also in the Settings, tick the checkbox [x] Export cleaned point cloud... such that your point cloud cleaning reflects in the export.
Screenshot of the E57 publishing options:
Screenshot of the Pano images publishing option; tick this for grayscale-only projects:
Setting import and export options:
Exporting Cyclone REGISTER projects without colour
If you want to show scans that were scanned without colour (laser intensity only) in AIM, you need to use the following workaround to extract laser intensity renderings from Cyclone REGISTER 360 .
In the Settings, enable "[x] Export panoramic scan with panorama export".
In the Setups list on the left, select all Setups, right-click, and choose Export Panoramic Images... -> Export as jpg...
This creates (next to each exported JPG image) a PNG image with intensity values, in the resolution of the imported image (e.g. 5120 if that's what's configured in the settings), but only with those pixels filled in that are in scan resolution.
Thus, we have sparse pixels on a black surface.
This makes the image appear almost black until we zoom in:
The almost-black images are not yet suitable for AIM.
You need to process them for normal display, using e.g. GIMP's "Dilate" filter ,e.g. applying it twice for the above; this fills in the black parts:
You have to do that for all PNG files, ideally automatically. You can do that e.g. with GIMP's batch scripting functionality.
It is recommended to export the improved photos as JPG instead of PNG for faster uploads.
You may optionally turn the colours into greyscale with GIMP, if you prefer that over Cyclone's green/red colour renderings.
Then you can upload those images into a "panos" folder along with your normal E57 upload. If your uploaded improved files are named like your scan files (but with .jpg or .png instead of .e57), our processing will pick them up.