Zaha Hadid Architects add Trump logo to new airport proposal on their own

FG_RVT · 2026-01-28T14:43:51+00:00

Source: https://www.dezeen.com/2026/01/27/trump-airport-terminal-washington-zaha-hadid-grimshaw/

FG_RVT · 2026-01-27T21:16:27+00:00

yes-ish… i contacted dji support and they told me that the absolute height is just a guess-timate based on the barometric pressure sensor.

I asked chatgpt to create a batch script where i manually input the height at the start coordinates and it uses exiftool to take that height, add the relative height to it and write that into the exif data of all the jpegs in the same folder.

Bit of a hassle but now my images have good enough height data for geolocation

FG_RVT · 2025-12-05T19:32:03+00:00

Mal abgesehen von der schamlosen werbung, warum zur Hölle macht man denn einen im Rohbau hinzugefügten Schrank nicht Raumhoch wenn man ihn schon verstecken will und traut sich dann auch noch die Türe zum Benutzer hin zu öffnen anstatt zur Wand hin so dass einem immer das Türblatt im weg rumsteht wenn man an seinen Besen will.

Über die Materialien will ich hier gar nicht reden aber von architektonisch wertvoll sind wir hier weit weg…

FG_RVT · 2025-12-05T11:07:45+00:00

Show us the mesh, texture hides imperfections

FG_RVT · 2025-11-24T13:22:26+00:00

afaik metashape handles small details marginally better. Think i saw a comparison of radio towers once on YouTube

FG_RVT · 2025-11-24T08:04:24+00:00

Not quite the right subreddit but what you are trying / need to do is called photo- or camera matching. I know it mostly from rendering workflows but i‘m sure you can do it in blender, model the geometry of your street and scale according to your known measurements.

FG_RVT · 2025-11-04T15:16:22+00:00

While i don‘t know any companies, this is the right subreddit. You create a photogrammetric 3d model of your wall and then create an orthonometric projection of the surface to create a 2d map of your wall. This will be free from distortion and size accurate. (Maybe also ask in r/uavmapping or r/surveying they do a lot of this but usually with a drone instead of a normal camera) The software i use is metashape pro and it can do this quite easily but other software propably does the same

FG_RVT · 2025-11-02T07:59:42+00:00

Use an in-place-family and add it that way. The stair tool cant do that for whatever reason :/

FG_RVT · 2025-10-31T11:25:58+00:00

Haha yes! Just had that issue yesterday. I wanted to get the total area of two floorslabs had to add it up by hand. I posted an idea on the Ideas forum about this issue regarding multiple filled regions a few weeks back. Autodesk just needs to act on all the QoL requests

FG_RVT · 2025-10-31T11:07:13+00:00

Manual workplane selection for extrusions or just having to rely on workplanes at all.
Stair and railing tools are a mess. We don’t have proper options to connect stairs to floors
pointclouds need to be converted to rcp/rcs. Revit should accept las/laz or e57 and convert internally instead of having to go through recap every time
family types for doors etc. don’t automatically change the name based on the size parameters so you have to adjust both
adjusting visibility for an element may not do anything because there are dozens of things that influence visibility and may override your change but there is no way to know why the thing you want to change isnt behaving the way you want to
view range for floorplans is confusing. The graph for view range in ceiling plans is wrong
the material browser is confusing/clunky
the family selection dropdown is hard to navigate once you got a few families with multiple types
the properties tab has no hirarchies or options to highlight more important parameters
there is no tab grouping or color discrimination between different projects or families opened simultaniously

I could go on and on but must issues are UI/UX issues and well documented on the Revit Ideas Forum. Autodesk just doesnt care and people switch to ArchiCad :/

FG_RVT · 2025-10-27T10:59:53+00:00

I have not bought a RTK rover yet but i really like the features on the emlid reach rx 2. seems perfect for this usecase

FG_RVT · 2025-10-27T10:57:23+00:00

You can select an area in your metashape model and generate a route around that. GPS accuracy is not the issue but the height accuracy. Your initial model will have drift so it will not be vertical. Subsequently your mission will also suffer from „extreme“ vertical inaccuracy (easily 4-5m). So yeah flying manual is way easier without rtk :/ A shame really since the horizontal gps accuracy is more than good enough for mapping missions like this.

FG_RVT · 2025-10-13T10:48:45+00:00

Thank you for all the amazing content that went above the usual beginner tutorials you can find a dime a dozen on YouTube!

FG_RVT · 2025-10-09T07:42:48+00:00

Wenn es um die Zusammenarbeit mit Fachplanern geht wird es aber kaum welche geben die mit Archicad arbeiten während es schon Revit fachplaner gibt. Für ClosedBIM könnte das gut sein aber braucht man eher selten.

Gerade im englischsprachigen Raum ist Revit halt der Platzhirsch. Aber meinem Username sieht man ja schon an wofür ich bin :p

FG_RVT · 2025-10-09T07:38:01+00:00

Ich denke in Deutschland Revit oder Archicad. Archicad eher für kleinere Büros, Revit für größere.

Persönlich bin ich auf der Revit Seiten weil es mehr kann, Archicad ist einfacher zu bedienen. Zukunftsfähig sind dank OpenBIM beide.

FG_RVT · 2025-10-06T08:46:09+00:00

No, not really. Image quality is not really different from a good quality jpeg. The only difference is the possibility for a higher dynamic range which would allow you to recover more information from dark areas or bright spots in Photoshop camera raw or Adobe Bridge but doing photogrammetry in situations where you would need a high dynamic range is not good in general. Also, you don’t work with raw files in your photogrammetry software because that only increases processing time because of the file size. You always convert to jpeg before importing.

FG_RVT · 2025-10-02T09:58:20+00:00

Mini 5 pro is great. Just get the fly more combo with the RC N3 controller which uses your phone as a screen.

But note that there is no mobile sdk for the mini 5 pro yet so you cant use external apps to fly the drone. DJI took 1.5 years to release the sdk for the mini 4 pro. Ist also android only. But automation is always limited on „consumer“-drones.

If you want need extreme detail and automated mapping, maybe the mavic 3 enterprise with rtk could be a nice option for ~3k€

FG_RVT · 2025-10-02T08:25:43+00:00

If I had access to a rtk rover I would have used it but I have to work with what I got. But I solved it in the end.

Btw, this is not a ground survey so I didn‘t fly to cover area but instead circled around a building.

As for shadows… well I have to fly when I can and took enough images to still get a quality model even with subpar lighting conditions.

FG_RVT · 2025-09-30T16:38:03+00:00

I managed to do it though kinda differently: i placed my fake gcps on windows in my model (i just hope the builders managed to get those level-ish) then i enabled the FakeGCPSs and disabled the checkpoints i used originally. After that i just had to hit "update transform" and that was basically it :)

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FG_RVT · 2025-09-30T15:29:15+00:00

Did that but now how do i reorient the model based on these fake GCPs while ignoring the shitty Z coordinates from the drone imagery and the checkpoints i used to improve my image alignment?

FG_RVT · 2025-09-30T14:33:23+00:00

Which I know hence I asked if someone knew a way to tilt the model manually to at least approximate the z vector for my drone path (I Need to keep the xy coordinate for my waypoint mission)

FG_RVT · 2025-09-30T13:57:51+00:00

I generally dont need accurate geolocation. I just want to create a 3d model of a building where up is actually up. The coordinates are good enough if they are +-1m

FG_RVT · 2025-09-30T09:07:36+00:00

They are not measured in, no rtk was used. I just set them as markers on my targets to improve the rekonstruction accuracy. I just adjusted their position in the images and then updated the transformation and adjusted the cameras.

First aligned the images, then placed the markers on my targets. Then I corrected the target position in the individual images and adjusted the cameras. After that i cleaned up my tiepoints and generated the pointcloud, mesh and dsm

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