Trying to do some test scans with the L515, totally lost
I just received my L515 the other day and through the realsense viewer, I can see what my camera is seeing, however, I don't understand what I'm supposed to do to capture a 3D point cloud of an object. I tried the record button, then hit the export button, but the only thing it exported was a point cloud of me reaching for my mouse as I hit the button. I downloaded the SDK, tried looking for a video on how to open it/work with it, but got 5 year old videos of stuff I can't even find on my PC. I'm pretty intelligent (at least I think so), but have no clue on writing code and not trying to spend hundreds on an addition piece of software just to test out some capabilities. Please help!!!!!
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Hi Woodexperimental Questions for the L515 model are handled on the RealSense GitHub forum. You can re-post your question there by visiting the link below and clicking on the New Issues button.
https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/issues
Having said that, I am happy to provide some links to general resources not specific to L515 before you go to the GitHub.
You can find modern RealSense videos at Intel's official RealSense YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/c/IntelRealSense/videos
A large range of example programs for the RealSense SDK are available here:
https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/tree/master/examples
If you are using Windows and have installed the RealSense SDK with the 791 mb installer file from the Releases page, you can find pre-built executable versions of examples on your PC at the following folder location:
C: > Program Files (x86) > Intel RealSense SDK 2.0 > tools
Once you have successfully run some example programs, a good first step when exploring how to develop your own project for the first time with Librealsense is to try the project in the link below, which is standalone and does not require dependencies.
https://github.com/zivsha/librealsense/tree/getting_started_example/examples/getting-started
When you are ready to build a more complex project with dependencies, advice is available here:
https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/issues/4277
Good luck at the GitHub!
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I appreciate the help, but it doesn't really get me any further lol. I guess that I am a complete idiot at this and have no clue as to what I'm supposed to be doing here. I just want to scan stuff, not trying to learn Visual Basic or CMake++ or anything. I click on a code example, okay, but what am I supposed to do with it? How do I implement it? I followed the realsense.com/get-started and made it to the code samples (page 2...maybe?) and am completely lost. I understand the open-source/development side of this kind of technology, but what about user functionality? So am I to understand that unless I want to A)learn coding or B)Spend hundreds of dollars on software, this scanner is completely useless? This seams pretty dumb, especially when I could buy some piece of crap that at least comes with a program to capture objects. They sure don't make this stuff easy.
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You do not need to purchase further software to use the camera. You can accomplish a lot just by using the RealSense Viewer software .
Intel's Viewer user guide PDF is out of date but a good place to start for learning the basics of the Viewer.
https://www.mouser.com/pdfdocs/Viewer-User-Guide.pdf
As L515 support cannot be provided here, please open a case on the RealSense GitHub forum for further help. Thanks!
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