See Flight Plans Settings Overview (Web app & Mobile app) for more information about Advanced flight plan settings.
Perimeter 3D & Crosshatch:
Available within the Advanced Flight settings.
Perimeter 3D: When enabled, this flight setting will add a flight leg around the boundary of your flight plan. It will capture oblique imagery (65° angle) facing toward the inside of your subject.
- Best for improving edge detail. Example: not very useful for a large construction site desiring 3D; perfect for a single house
Crosshatch: When enabled, this flight setting captures oblique imagery (65° angle) directly above your subject with a 65° angle. Instead of a single pass, the Mode doubles your plan lines and flies the drone in both directions for more image density and coverage.
- Best for improving 3D over a larger site with multiple structures. Example: not needed for a single house; recommended for a large construction site desiring 3D
- Live Map does not work properly while the drone executes a Crosshatch flight. Therefore, when Live Map is enabled, we will disable Crosshatch. Turning OFF Live Map will then allow Crosshatch to run on the plan.
Both modes are focused on great 3D modeling. In service of our goal to offer simple flight planning, we've wrapped both 3D modes under the parent setting of "Enhanced 3D". By turning this ON a user gets access to Perimeter and Crosshatch, and by turning it OFF, a user disables both 3D flight patterns.
Enhanced 3D:
Combines Perimeter 3D mode with Crosshatch to capture angled shots from the perimeter of your flight plan (Perimeter 3D) and oblique imagery above your subject in a crosshatch formation to create higher-quality 3D models.
- Enhanced 3D maps are best kept under 1,000 images. Enhanced 3D Mode does have device requirements.