This section provides a quick guide to creating a new SmartPoints project.
• Take photographs (or video) of your object/scene and textured surfaces. See SmartPoints Photo Requirements and SmartPoints Project Requirements for guidelines. You generally want to take the photos with good overlap, and the photos should be taken close to each other such that angles between the photos are low. Avoid gaps. Makes sure photos are in focus. Often using the burst mode on your camera can help as long as the images are in focus (i.e. lighting conditions allow a very fast shutter speed).
• Start an Automated Project and chose the SmartPoints type. Import your photos. If you calibrated the camera and added it to your library, the camera information is loaded automatically from your library of calibrated cameras, or if your camera is not calibrated a camera is created from information in the images themselves (EXIF, for some digital camera types) which can then be auto-calibrated during SmartMatch. The SmartPoints dialog box then comes up - press the Run button. The dialog will show progress and provide feedback about the status of the project (see SmartPoints Project Summary Dialog). If you want to set any options click the Options... button to bring up the SmartPoints Project Options Dialog.
The result of the process is a project with all your photos oriented (camera positions solved) and a number of SmartPoints. SmartPoints have 2d photo marks and 3d locations. At this stage you can use the solved camera stations and 3d SmartPoints as a base to do standard modeling (additional marking, referencing, measurements, dimensions, lines, cylinders, curves, surfaces, etc.), you can run dense surface modeling (see Using a SmartPoints Project for DSM), or in some cases (scenes with good random texture - which produces a large number of SmartPoints) you can perform triangulation, smoothing, texturing etc. right from the SmartPoints. In this latter case you get a 3D surface model quickly and with very little manual intervention.
You can also run SmartMatch manually, if you close the SmartMatch dialog before running it, or if you add photos to re-run it.
The "Run SmartPoints
Project..." button: 
is only available in PhotoModeler Premium. It can be used in any
project to help with orientation, though the process works best when photos are
taken appropriately – see SmartPoints
Photo Requirements.