From the course: Photogrammetry for Product Design and AEC

How to install Metashape photogrammetry software

From the course: Photogrammetry for Product Design and AEC

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How to install Metashape photogrammetry software

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- [Instructor] Metashape is a commercial photogrammetry software package for windows, Mac, and Linux. After watching this video, you'll be able to install Metashape on your computer. I've gone ahead and launched a browser, and navigated to the website of Agisoft, that's the software company that makes Metashape. Let's go ahead over to the download section, and here we can see the latest version of Agisoft Metashape. At the time of this recording, that's version 1.6.5. And we consider that section of the page. We have a professional edition and a standard edition. So in this course we'll be working with the standard edition, and that's going to be just fine for getting introduced to a lot of the processes involved in photogrammetry. The professional edition has some really cool features that are much more advanced and just outside the scope of what we're going to cover here. So you can see we've got links for a Windows, a Mac, and a Linux installer. One of the reasons we chose to cover this particular photogrammetry package is that it's cross-platform and it works pretty much the same, no matter what operating system you're working with. So go ahead and pick the link for the platform that you're working on. In this case, I'm in Windows. I've already gone ahead of downloaded this. So, let's go ahead into my downloads, and I can see I have an installer for Metashape. I'll go ahead and double click, and just work through the prompts. So click "Next", agree to the license agreement. I can customize the setup, if I want to. In this case I'm just going to do everything on the defaults and that should be just fine. Go ahead and click "Next" and again, and here we can specify where on the hard drive Metashape will be installed. Again, I'm just going to leave this on the default under my program files, and I'll go ahead and click "Next, and then "Install." I'll need to give the installer permission to make changes. So I'll do that by clicking "Yes." And go ahead and click "Finish" to complete the install. Now in Windows, I should be able to look under My Programs under Agisoft and find Metashape Standard. So we can go ahead and click on that to launch. And this is the first time we're running this program, so we're being asked to activate the software. If you have a license code, you can plug that in here. You could start a 30 day free trial, or you could continue in demo mode. So now that we're installed, in another video, we'll look at basics of the interface and how to get started setting up some photogrammetry projects.

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