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.