We are evaluating Bentley Pointools V8i, Version 02.00.02.02, build 2.0130201
Workstation is an HP Pavillion HPE running an i7-2600 CPU @3.40 GHz/3.40 GHz, with 16GB RAM and an AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series Graphic Card.
Dataset is a 3.2 GB pointcloud (ca. 192 million points) in POD format generated in FARO Scene ersion 5.1.0.30630 64bit.
A 6-story building, roughly 30X10X22meters high was scanned from grade with about 12-15 stations.
The issue regards workflows involving simple cleaning up of the cloud, i.e. selecting/hiding the interior 'noise' in order to limit the scandata to the exterior facade.
When ONLY the interior surfaces captured by the scanner through the window have been selected and hidden, I used Invert within the Layers&Visibility tab.
This correctly presented the previously selected and hidden points.
I created a new Layer, selected the points so they were highlighted, and used the icon to (Ctrl-V) place the points on the new (highlighted) layer.
The result included the unforeseen inclusion of a jagged, orthogonal selection set of points OUTSIDE of the selection set which were not previously visible, (and not selected) being placed upon the new layer, resulting in a useless layer set.
See attatched PDF.
This is reproducable after restart, reinstall, a reduced data set of 340 MB etc.
A similar 'effect' is obtained when exporting selected or visible points to PTS files. (!)
Unwanted and unselected points are included in the dataset, AND/OR points are cropped out (i.e. missing) from the data set, leading to extremely unpredictable/useless resulting files.
Other issues:
Is there an undo function? Especially when encountering the above errors, work is lost when a selection set in corrupted due to inclusion of unwanted points as above.
Selecting points and hiding often leaves part of the selection set unhidden. Is there a limit to the number of points it can handle? I must deselect, and select smaller areas in order to hide the points 'left behind'
Mouse navigation is EXTREMELY user unfriendly and inconsistent with your other software offerings. It should be possible to navigate as in any other drafting program, ie, mouse button to pan, Shift-Click to rotate etc.
Please Advise.
.BIN is the Leica C10 Raw format. I am pretty sure that this is a proprietary Leica format, rather than the Terrascan .BIN format as listed in the Pointools import options, that only cyclone can import. (I am however basing this on the Pointools view 1.8 import options, not V8i)
You would need to import the raw data into a Cyclone database, register, and then export to one of the more interchange friendly formats such as PTX, PTS or E57 as dan states. Hope that helps.
Regards,
Tim
first, make sure the file is valid. is it possible to recreate the BIN file (or use a different one)? if so, then please do and test again. if it gives the same error then please upload the file here: bentley.sharefile.com/r-r9b4c2b4609a4edc8
I have found that E57 is a reliable route from Cyclone to Bentley
Hi,
I've got problems with importing cloud in *.bin format to pointools.
There's an 103 error - no points to import.
The file has 97mb, comes from Leica C10 scanner and i'm sure that there are some data.
Please help
Yes, thankyou, I noticed that. (see above).
Hi Jamie, if you want to navigate while in a tool you can hold the Alt key, this overrides the current tool temporarily.