Guided matching¶
Status: stub. This page is the structural example for the feature encyclopedia. It will be populated as the alignment articles are written.
What it is¶
Guided matching is an option of the Match Photos / Align Photos step that asks Metashape to use the rough camera-pair geometry from initial matching to find additional tie points the regular match step missed. It typically increases tie-point count and connectedness at the cost of alignment time.
Where it lives¶
| Standard | Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| GUI | Workflow → Align Photos → Advanced → Guided image matching | (same) |
| Python | Metashape.Chunk.matchPhotos(guided_matching=True, ...) |
(Pro only) |
| Available since | to be confirmed | to be confirmed |
Documented in the official manual¶
- To be filled in once an article references this feature; capture the manual section / page.
Related concepts¶
Articles in this manual¶
- Diagnosing under-aligned chunks — the canonical "clean" alignment settings explicitly recommend guided matching disabled.
Forum threads worth reading¶
A curated list of forum threads that contain substantive discussion of guided matching. Each entry shows the date and the product version current at that date.
| Date | Version | Author | Thread | One-line takeaway |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stub | stub | stub | stub | Populated as insight cards on this feature accumulate. |
Caveats¶
Reserved for version-specific behaviour notes (e.g. "Metashape 2.x behaves differently from 1.x: …") and known interactions with other features.