[tinco]

We're using Metashape and Reality Capture. We used to use Bentley, but they've got unethical business practices so we're avoiding them now.

Metashape has really good licensing, and their software runs on Linux and is easy to integrate into processing pipelines, also they've got a big featureset.

Reality Capture was super expensive, though that has seemingly changed now that they're bought by Epic, so we might reconsider our strategy there. They make better use of hardware, making them faster, and their resulting models look great. Their licensing was so expensive that we just couldn't afford switching all of our processing to RC.

[andybak]

> We used to use Bentley, but they've got unethical business practices

Go on. I'm curious now.

[tinco]

You can google a bit about Bentley Connect charges, we were not the only ones who called their sales reps in a panic.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2129583-gathering-inf...

If you can get a good deal with them it's probably fine, and we only talked to nice people there. But we're still on limited runway, we can't deal with random $20k invoices, even if a nice sales rep reverts the charge when called.