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Additional Licensing Requirements for Licensing LP360 Drone+Desktop Photo with Agisoft

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The orthomosaic can be generated and the image positions and orientations refined using Agisoft Ortho Mapping. This is an addon license to LP360 Drone, called Desktop Photo with Agisoft. Desktop Photo with Agisoft consists of a “Full Photo” (new name for the legacy “Fast Photo” license) or a “Photo with Agisoft” addon license, plus an Agisoft Ortho Mapping license that must be separately activated.

Images may also be processed in the Cloud version for Agisoft Ortho Mapping using points purchased in the LP360 Portal and requires no separate Agisoft Ortho Mapping license activation.

True Pose® images may also be processed in other photogrammetric packages, such as PIX4D and Bentley’s ContextCapture, using the Export Photo Package tool, but is not tightly integrated like Agisoft Ortho Mapping or Ortho Mapping.

Activate Agisoft Ortho Mapping License

To configure your Agisoft Ortho Mapping license:

  1. Using Agisoft Ortho Mapping requires no separate installation of Metashape. However, if you are using a GUI version Metashape Pro license, then you will need to separately install Metashape Pro v1.7.1, v1.8.x, or v2.0.x and follow the installation and licensing instructions provided by Agisoft with your license delivery and not the following instructions. When using a separately installed GUI version of Metashape Pro, you will need to configure it to be run by LP360 Drone.
  2. Once you have installed and licensed LP360 Drone, open LP360 Drone.
  3. Cancel off the Startup dialog.
  4. Open the Project Settings dialog (File - Project Settings).
  5. On the EXP tab, in the Agisoft Ortho Mapping section, select Check Activation Status.
  6. You should see an Activation Status message indicating, “Metashape is NOT Active”. Select OK.
  7. Copy/paste your console key, as provided in your initial licensing e-mail, into the Activation Key field.
  8. Select Activate to activate the Agisoft Ortho Mapping license on this machine.
  9. You should see an Activation Success message indicating, “Metashape successfully activated”. Select OK.
  10. Select OK or Apply to close the Project Settings dialog.
  11. Check out a “Full Photo” or “Photo with Agisoft” addon license to the LP360 Drone license.
  12. Execute the Agisoft Ortho Mapping tool to generate an orthomosaic and refine the True Pose® photo positions and orientations.

Deactivate Agisoft Ortho Mapping License

To deactivate an Agisoft Ortho Mapping license:

  1. Open LP360 Drone. If you previously activated while using elevated permission, then right-click on the LP360 Drone icon in the start menu or task bar and select “Run as Administrator” to grant elevated permissions for deactivating the license.
  2. Cancel off the Startup dialog.
  3. Open the Project Settings dialog (File - Project Settings).
  4. On the EXP tab, in the Agisoft Ortho Mapping section, select Check Activation Status.
  5. You should see an Activation Status message indicating, “Metashape is activated”. Select OK.
  6. Select Deactivate to deactivate this Agisoft Ortho Mapping license from this machine.
  7. You should see a Deactivation Success message indicating, “Metashape successfully deactivated”. Select OK.
  8. Select OK or Apply to close the Project Settings dialog. Close and restart LP360 Drone without elevated permissions.

Offline Activate Agisoft Ortho Mapping License

In some circumstances, you may not be able to reach the Agisoft license activation servers to activate/deactivate your license, so you may then need to take the longer route of an offline activation/deactivation of your Agisoft Ortho Mapping license.

To configure your Agisoft Ortho Mapping license using the offline activation process, not recommended, but required if the machine cannot connect to the Agisoft license servers:

  1. Using Agisoft Ortho Mapping requires no separate installation of Metashape. However, if you are using a GUI version Metashape Pro license, then you will need to separately install Metashape Pro v1.7.1, v1.8.x, or v2.0.x and follow the installation and licensing instructions provided by Agisoft with your license delivery and not the following instructions. When using a separately installed GUI version of Metashape Pro, you will need to configure it to be run by LP360 Drone.
  2. Once you have installed and licensed LP360 Drone, open https://activate.agisoft.com/activate-offline page from a computer with Internet access, input the Agisoft Ortho Mapping license activation key and press Save Activation Parameters button to save the activation parameters file, “metashape-pro.actparam”.
  3. Transfer the generated activation parameters file to the computer with LP360 Drone where the Agisoft Ortho Mapping license should be activated and proceed to next step.
  4. Open LP360 Drone.
  5. Cancel off the Startup dialog.
  6. Open the Project Settings dialog (File - Project Settings).
  7. On the EXP tab, in the Agisoft Ortho Mapping section, select Check Activation Status.
  8. You should see an Activation Status message indicating, “Metashape is NOT Activated”. Select OK.
  9. This will activate the Generate Activate Request File option. Selecting this option will allow you to create an offline activation request file by browsing for the activation parameter file, “metashape-pro.actparam”, obtained from the Agisoft offline activation website and save the activation request file, “metashape-pro.actreq”. You will see the License Request Generated confirmation dialog.
  10. Transfer the generated activation request file, “metashape-pro.actreq”, (created in the previous step) to the computer with Internet access, open https://activate.agisoft.com/activate-offline, beside Activation request in section 2, select the request file, “metashape-pro.actreq”, and select Save Activation Response button to save the response file, “metashape-pro.actresp”.
  11. Transfer the activation response file, “metashape-pro.actresp”, to the computer with LP360 Drone where the Agisoft Ortho Mapping license should be activated.
  12. Open LP360 Drone.
  13. Cancel off the Startup dialog.
  14. Open the Project Settings dialog (File - Project Settings).
  15. On the EXP tab, in the Agisoft Ortho Mapping section, select Check Activation Status.
  16. You should see an Activation Status message indicating, “Metashape is NOT Activated”. Select OK.
  17. Select Activate from Response File and browse for the activation response file, “metashape-pro.actresp” to activate this Agisoft Ortho Mapping license on this machine.
  18. You should see the Metashape Offline Activation message indicating, “Metashape should now be activated”. Select OK.
  19. Select OK or Apply to close the Project Settings dialog.
  20. Check out a “Full Photo” or “Photo with Agisoft” addon license to the LP360 Drone license.
  21. Execute the Agisoft Ortho Mapping tool to generate an orthomosaic and refine the True Pose® photo positions and orientations.

Offline Deactivate Agisoft Ortho Mapping License

To deactivate your Agisoft Ortho Mapping license using the offline activation process, not recommended, but required if the machine cannot connect to the Agisoft license servers:

  1. Open LP360 Drone.
  2. Cancel off the Startup dialog.
  3. Open the Project Settings dialog (File - Project Settings).
  4. On the EXP tab, in the Agisoft Ortho Mapping section, select Check Activation Status.
  5. You should see an Activation Status message indicating, “Metashape is activated”. Select OK.
  6. This will activate the Generate Deactivate Request File option. Selecting this option will allow you to select a folder in which to create the offline deactivate license request file(s), “deactivate*.actreq”. You will get a confirmation dialog with the number of licenses that have been deactivated and the location where to find the deactivation request file(s).
  7. Important! Once you have generated a deactivate license request file you must complete the deactivate step on the website to be able to activate your license key on a new machine.
  8. Transfer the generated deactivation request file(s), “deactivate*.actreq”, from the previous step to the computer with Internet access, open https://activate.agisoft.com/activate-offline, select this request file in the corresponding “Deactivate license on computer with no Internet access” section and select the Deactivate button to complete the license deactivation process. You will see an offline license deactivation confirmation page.
  9. Close LP360 Drone.

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