[ContextCapture] - The workflow to iteratively create a large/more detailed model

I've been reading through the extensive Wiki articles on ContextCapture. Really great! This is a great way to convey info/knowledge of the capabilites of the software. I also noted that a few videos have been published recently on the Acute3D Youtube account:

www.youtube.com/.../Acute3D

This is even more great! Kudos for this eminent way of spreading info!  :-)

Now to my question:

I've tried to get a grip of the (suggested) workflow to compile large models. For example, the huge city-models that can be seen on other Youtube videos and also as web-demos at www.acute3D.com

I assume that these models are created in some iterative way. But how? In this article in the Wiki:

communities.bentley.com/.../27141.contextcapture-add-additional-photos


..the question is noted, but I'm sorry to say I don't really understand what the answer is saying...

So it would be great to see a Wiki article describing this workflow. Or even better - a Youtube video presenting the process.

The reason why I'm interested in this is that we can see a potential in using CC to model complex process plants. In these we foresee that it will be impossible to model [everything] perfect at once. So we foresee a process where we first generate a "draft" model of the basic plant, and then add detail level photos on those parts that we want more accuracy on.

Is this possible to do without constantly re-running the whole set of pics (AT and production)? That would eventually lead to a very long processing of the "last" detail.

Thanks in advance for replies!  :-)

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  • To merge already produced 3MX model the y do not need to be geolocated. They must however be in the exact same SRS.

    If your requirement is to progressively add new photo's to the same project you can either re-process the entire AT with your new images and then produce only the tiles that are affected by the dataset.
    Or, run the subsample independently and merge it with the initial block using the derived GCP (as described in the document)
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