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title: "Navigating Obstacles with the NavVis M6"
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updated: 2025-06-27T11:03:55Z
published: 2025-06-27T11:03:55Z
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> ## Documentation Index
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# Navigating Obstacles

## Stairs

The NavVis M6 cannot climb stairs during scans. Try to scan staircases thoroughly to get a dense Point cloud from both adjacent floors. Well-mapped staircases will be important during Dataset alignment since they connect different floors and are clearly visible in the point clouds.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/bf174766-fa1a-4fe1-a4d7-b1db1e7cb996/Images/Documentation/image-1706605941078.png)

**Scan Staircases Thoroughly**

Slowly rotate and move so that the vertical laser scanners scan the stairs and the individual steps.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/bf174766-fa1a-4fe1-a4d7-b1db1e7cb996/Images/Documentation/navigating-obstacles-image-s3g5veks.png)

**Lifting the Mobile Mapping System**

Finish the current dataset. Pull the camera head all the way down, then pull the mobile mapping system by the handles at its head. Do this only while the scan is not running.

A three-dimensional representation of an environment, made up of many points. A point is defined by x, y and z coordinates, and it may or may not contain RGB, an intensity value, and normals.

A dataset is a piece of a site, the result of a continuous recording with a NavVis mapping device or the result of an imported point cloud. Datasets can contain panoramic images and point clouds.