The Point Cloud Manager panel creates and manages regions in a point cloud and controls the display of point clouds based on scans/waypoints, classification and regions.
Note: Scan information will only be available if the point cloud is preprocessed in HSPC format. Only structured point clouds contain scan information. Classification information will be available if the point cloud data source contains classification information (some *.LAS/*.LAZ files) and it is preprocessed in HSPC, or if the point cloud is classified using the Hexagon point cloud classifier (POINTCLOUDCLASSIFY command).
- Point Cloud Manager tab
- Render Settings tab
Point Cloud Manager tab
- New region
- Remove region
- Search
- List of point clouds and their scans, regions, classes, and building information
- Visibility
- New region
- Allows you to create a region by running the POINTCLOUDREGION command:
- Draw region
- Runs the Draw option of the POINTCLOUDREGION command.
- Convert crop solids to region
- Runs the Convert option of the POINTCLOUDREGION command.
- Remove region
- Removes the selected region.
Note: The Unassigned Points region cannot be removed.
- Search
- Allows you to search for a specific scan, class or region name. The list is shortened and only shows the items that contain the entered sequence of characters, regardless of where they are located in the item's name.
- List of point clouds and their scans, regions, classes, and building information
- Displays a tree view list of point clouds with their scans, regions, and classes. Building information (building/floor/room) is also displayed after the POINTCLOUDDETECTFLOORS and POINTCLOUDDETECTROOMS commands (BricsCAD BIM only) have been used.
- Right-click an item in the list to open a context menu:
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- The Toggle Visibility option, available in each item's context menu, allows you to switch On/Off the visibility of the selected item.
- Where available, the Delete option deletes the selected item/items from the list and removes the specific classification of the corresponding points.
Note: Deleting the Buildings category from the Point Cloud Manager panel removes all building-related information (building, floor, room) for the items listed in this category.
- Scans
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- Rename
- Allows you to type in a new name.
Note: Double click an item to activate the rename mode.
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- Open scan in bubble viewer
- Opens the Bubble viewer displaying the selected scan.
Nearby scans are indicated in the viewer by red bubbles. Hover the cursor over a bubble to display the scan name. Double-click a bubble to open the scan in the viewer.
Note: Hover over scan items in the list to show a preview of the scan.
- Regions
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- Rename
- Allows you to type in a new name.
Note: Double click an item to activate the rename mode.
- Classes
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- Add new class
- Allows you to add a new class to the Classes list by selecting one from the predefined lists: Lidar, Indoor, Construction, or add a custom class using the Custom... option.
Note: Use the POINTCLOUDCLASSIFY command to automatically classify points.
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- Add points
- Runs the POINTCLOUDMODIFYCLASS command.
Allows you to manually classify points under the selected class by selecting points in the point cloud. Two selection methods are available: Rectangular and Polygonal.
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- Select
- Allows you to add more points to the selection set.
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- Finish
- Finishes the selection process and classifies the points.
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Note: Use the POINTCLOUDCOLORMAP command and select Classification for Color Stylization to better visualize how the points are classified.
- Buildings
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- Add Building
- Runs the Add option of the POINTCLOUDMODIFYBUILDING command.
Allows you to specify the area of points to be classified under a new building.
- Building
- Right-click a building item to display a context menu:
- Modify
- Runs the Edit option of the POINTCLOUDMODIFYBUILDING command.
Allows you to modify the volume of the building (points assigned) by moving the faces of the temporary crop solid.
- Add Floor
- Runs the Add option of the POINTCLOUDMODIFYFLOOR command.
Allows you to specify the elevation and height of the new floor.
- Building floors
- Right-click a floor item to display a context menu:
- Modify
- Runs the Edit option of the POINTCLOUDMODIFYFLOOR command.
Allows you to modify the volume of the floor (points assigned) by moving the faces of the temporary crop solid.
- Detect Rooms
- Automatically detects rooms in the selected floor (see POINTCLOUDDETECTROOMS command).
- Add Room
- Allows you to manually add a new room by selecting a point cloud area.
Enables the Top view and lets you define a closed polyline.
- Building rooms
- Right-click a room item to display a context menu:
- Edit
- Allows you to edit the contour of the selected room.
Enables the Top view and lets you reposition the vertices of the closed polyline.
To exit the editing mode, right-click the room item again and select Accept or Decline.
- Rename
- Allows you to type in a new room name.
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- This option can also be accessed by double-clicking a selected room's name.
- The room keeps the number assigned during the detection process.
- Multiple building rooms
- Select multiple room items and right-click to display a context menu:
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- Merge rooms
- The points corresponding to the selected rooms are classified under a single room.
- Visibility
- Displays the current visibility state of listed items. Click the icon to switch On/Off the visibility of the selected items.
Render Settings tab
- Bubbles settings
- Adaptive Display
- Dollhouse Rendering
- Point Size
- Eye Dome Lighting
- Gap Filling
- Bubbles settings
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- Show Bubbles (
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- Allows you to set the visibility of scan bubbles in Model space and Bubble viewer:
Off: hides all bubbles in the point cloud.
On: displays all bubbles in the point cloud.
Visible Only: displays non-cropped bubbles only.
Note: This setting applies to all point clouds inserted in the drawing.
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- Bubbles Size
- Allows you to set the size of scan bubbles in Model space.
- Adaptive Display (
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- Toggles the adaptive display of point sizes.
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- Available for Windows and Linux, only for structured point clouds.
- Sets the value of POINTCLOUDADAPTIVEDISPLAY system variable.
When enabled, point sizes are adjusted according to local point density and distance from the camera to the position of the scanned points.
- Dollhouse Rendering (
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- Toggles the display of points with normals in the view direction.
When enabled, points with normals pointing away from the camera are not shown.
Note: Only works when normals are available.
- Point Size (
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- Sets the size of points displayed.
- Eye Dome Lighting (
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- Allows you to set the non-photo-realistic shading to improve depth perception.
- Gap Filling (
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- Fills gaps between points on surfaces.
Note: Only works in perspective view, not in orthogonal view.
