Similar to Strata’s Foto3D CX2 project, Autodesk has a new beta-project code-named ‘Project Photofly‘ that allows you to upload a collection of photos to their cloud, and then download a resulting DWG of the model.
The Photo Scene Editor for Project Photofly is a small application that you download and install on your Windows computer. This application allows you to submit your photographs to the Project Photofly servers and view the Photo Scenes returned by the Project Photofly servers. You can save a Photo Scene in its native format, RZI (Autodesk ImageModeler 2009 format), or export the scene to the DWG file format.
It looks pretty impressive, and another example of doing work ‘in the cloud’, and frankly one of the more impressive ones I’ve seen. Project Photofly is currently operational, and they aim to keep it in production until August 1st, 2011. They’ve got a few tutorial and customer testimonials online already. See one below, then go try it out yourself (if you use a Windows machine, that is).
I downloaded PhotoSceneEditorInstaller1.1
When I run it, says “This installation package could not be opened. Contact the application vendor to verify that is a valid Windows Installer package.
I tried on Windows Vista and 7
What is the correct way to install and run the application?
JulioKK
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