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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><channel><title>Marshall Richards's Activities</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/members/70353e5a_2d00_6b3a_2d00_478f_2d00_992c_2d00_127d19321f42</link><description>Marshall Richards's recent activity</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>3MX Files</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/3d_imaging_and_point_cloud_software/f/contextcapture-descartes-pointools-forum/141178/3mx-files</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2017 07:29:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:775193f6-6a83-4181-95c0-0e923bfe2cc9</guid><dc:creator>Yusuf Azwan</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to merged completed productions into 1 single file? I have made all the SRS, tile size, coordinates origin the same.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have tried doing this but the model failed to open as it says that it is corrupted. &amp;nbsp;is there a more detailed way of how to merge these productions into one 3D Mesh model?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;Combine the folders&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span&gt;-&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Create a directory&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a name="OLE_LINK1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;hellip;/Merged Production/Scene&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span&gt;-&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;In this directory&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a name="OLE_LINK3"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a name="OLE_LINK2"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;(&amp;hellip;/Merged Production/Scene)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Copy P1.3MX and rename it Merged_Production.3MX&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span&gt;-&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Copy also (in this directory&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a name="OLE_LINK7"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a name="OLE_LINK6"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;hellip;/Merged Production/Scene&lt;/span&gt;) the two Data folders and rename them Data_1, Data_2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>POD Creator discontinued?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/3d_imaging_and_point_cloud_software/f/contextcapture-descartes-pointools-forum/214438/pod-creator-discontinued</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2021 14:35:50 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:f43c884b-525a-4353-bb56-a5cef5127034</guid><dc:creator>Oto</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Is the &lt;a href="https://www.bentley.com/en/resources/software/bentley-pointools-podcreator"&gt;POD creator&lt;/a&gt; discontinued?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Dark theme for MicroStation Connect</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/i/user_interface/dark-theme-for-microstation-connect</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2018 22:44:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:c123cd96-3ab1-468c-afd0-47138a1633b1</guid><dc:creator>Marshall Richards</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;d love to have all dialogs, ribbon, toolbars etc have the option for dark background. Similar to the Black or Dark Grey themes that MS Office offers. Our eyes are on MicroStation&amp;#39;s interface all day, and most of us change the background to black or dark to be easier on the eyes. However there&amp;#39;s still so much white in MicroStation Connect, it&amp;#39;d be great to be able to invert it.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Ask A Question I</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/achievements/460ac7df-7ccc-4c42-a204-9e05eef3be09</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2020 00:17:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:711e8fd7-bd68-4ed8-99e8-c99b5fcdec46</guid><dc:creator /><description>Ask a question in a forum.</description></item><item><title>AT Quality Report values</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/3d_imaging_and_point_cloud_software/f/contextcapture-descartes-pointools-forum/193172/at-quality-report-values</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2020 00:17:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:04b0fd1f-3b11-4267-88c0-60ee14d5dba7</guid><dc:creator>Marshall Richards</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi All,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;m wanting to know how a few of the values in the AT&amp;#39;s Quality Report are calculated, as I can&amp;#39;t replicate them. Specifically the &amp;quot;Average ground resolution&amp;quot; (first page) and &amp;quot;median resolution&amp;quot; (in Tie Point Resolution section)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These values often seem around 10% lower than they should be to me based on ground sample distance calculations for several projects.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;m assuming that to calculate the median resolution a mean GSD is calculated based on the observations for each tie point, then the median is taken for the whole tie point cloud. Is this not the case? The programs we&amp;#39;ve written to parse the block XML and then compute this process are returning slightly higher values. Perhaps high outliers are being disregarded when the report is created?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Great Idea!</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/achievements/56fa9ae1-7e53-4002-bc27-d7c16226dbe6</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2020 21:18:20 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:5b9377d6-5b94-4339-acf8-f2887949ec89</guid><dc:creator /><description>Receive 25 upvotes for an idea</description></item><item><title>ContextCapture - zoom on mouse location in control editor</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/3d_imaging_and_point_cloud_software/i/capture/contextcapture_-_zoom_on_mouse_location_in_control_editor</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2017 21:44:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b5bc108f-b42f-4d42-9d71-4e3907fcc486</guid><dc:creator>Marshall Richards</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Editing control marks require constant zooming on images, and as is the scroll wheel zoom only zooms on the image centre rather than the cursor&amp;#39;s location. This means&amp;nbsp;zoom-pan-zoom-pan-zoom-pan... which is time-consuming when you&amp;#39;ve got thousands of images.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>How to Set a Central Point of Interest in ContextCapture for the comparison of two different 3D meshes of the same object</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/3d_imaging_and_point_cloud_software/f/contextcapture-descartes-pointools-forum/179741/how-to-set-a-central-point-of-interest-in-contextcapture-for-the-comparison-of-two-different-3d-meshes-of-the-same-object</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2019 18:37:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:0125785e-3585-4d79-aa8c-4eb4de4cbf49</guid><dc:creator>Michael Zhou</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;m trying to compare the difference between two different 3D meshes of the same object.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For instance, let&amp;#39;s say the object is a bookshelf. In the first 3D mesh generated by ContextCapture, the bookshelf will be completely full of books. In the second 3D mesh, the bookshelf will have some books removed, and perhaps a hat or some other random item will be placed in some of the empty space.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So far, I have used a camera, dolly, and tripod to ensure that my photo datasets for each reconstruction are very similar. But upon generating the 3D meshes, even after using tie points, scale constraints, and adjusting the boundary, the 3D models do not align themselves. Is there a way to define a central point of interest on the model, so that when I import it into a mesh/point cloud comparison software, the models will overlap (be superimposed on top of each other?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;As an aside, if anyone is aware of the best way to compare 3D meshes, please let me know. As of right now, my best solution has been to generate point clouds using the data set, and then use the point cloud differencing tool provided by Pointools.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Idea Machine I</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/achievements/f09a2649-3fee-4b79-998e-82ce31585d04</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2018 22:44:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:a2c75e27-c455-4187-a0a2-d656a4f0efb5</guid><dc:creator /><description>Share 5 ideas with the community</description></item><item><title>Good Idea!</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/achievements/f3a57940-b176-4972-933d-aeb6f9f5dd1b</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2018 01:10:13 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:e612dd2b-8d9f-4e1b-aebb-406f49e46325</guid><dc:creator /><description>Receive 10 upvotes for an idea</description></item><item><title>&amp;quot;Spiderweb&amp;quot; lines in production in ContextCapture update 9 (pics)</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/3d_imaging_and_point_cloud_software/f/contextcapture-descartes-pointools-forum/155288/spiderweb-lines-in-production-in-contextcapture-update-9-pics</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2018 17:34:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:785195d8-88e3-4b05-8774-192870d2db44</guid><dc:creator>Or Rose</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;In the new version of CC (update 9) we are constantly getting a strange phenomenon of lines which radiate from a certain point in the models, see pics below. This happens when we make the model bounds from a polygon in a dgn file (new feature of update 9). These lines do not appear when retouching the tiles. How can we avoid these lines, or erase them in retouching?&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="/resized-image/__size/320x240/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/343228/0827.Snapshot_5F00_1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="/resized-image/__size/320x240/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/343228/5556.Snapshot_5F00_3.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Ability to rotate region of interest about Z axis when creating a reconstruction</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/3d_imaging_and_point_cloud_software/i/capture/ability-to-rotate-region-of-interest-about-z-axis-when-creating-a-reconstruction</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2017 09:23:07 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:87fa04f1-559a-47af-a29b-d603c94128e4</guid><dc:creator>Marshall Richards</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if the region of interest could be rotated about the Z axis to better represent the land under survey.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>What If...</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/achievements/431b6499-29c0-4b75-9a11-0f8ab01b8e9b</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2017 09:18:34 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:110a5522-930a-45a3-acb9-2202a2410191</guid><dc:creator /><description>Share an idea with the community</description></item><item><title>ContextCapture sends email/IM when AT or production is complete</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/3d_imaging_and_point_cloud_software/i/capture/contextcapture-sends-email-im-when-at-or-production-is-complete</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2017 09:18:33 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:1468a3cc-8117-456a-87c4-66f0c77862d5</guid><dc:creator>Marshall Richards</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;It would be great if I didn&amp;#39;t have to check the machine I run ContextCapture on every half hour in case it&amp;#39;s completed a step and needs more input. I&amp;#39;m often remoting in on the evenings and weekends just to check on it, and if there was an option to send an email when AT, a production or even each tile in a production was complete (and a report for AT) it&amp;#39;d make things a fair bit easier.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Variable thumbnail sizes in control editor</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/3d_imaging_and_point_cloud_software/i/consume__mappingplanning/variable_thumbnail_sizes_in_control_editor</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2017 21:37:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:d4c5a17a-db39-4a24-a525-942bb1947482</guid><dc:creator>Marshall Richards</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;It would be great to be able to see a bit more information in the image thumbnails in the control editor to help pick which images are likely to be able to see a certain control mark.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>