• Clipping point clouds with element

    Hi. I have scanned a secant pile wall and now I am trying to clip the point cloud with an element. The element is constructed by lines defining different distances from the front of the pile wall. I have made a shape (both complex and simpel). A shape…

  • Points disappearing in Pointools

    Hi all I'm working on a project where I have two different point clouds of the same area. I edited both point clouds in two separate projects in Bentley Pointools v8i and then exported one as pod-file and attached it to the other project. After that…

  • RE: PoinTools review

    Hi Torben, Thanks for your comments, it's interesting to get the views from a MicroStation-visualisation expert. I'll try to answer your points: No DGN support! - yeah, this is top of the 'to-do' list! i-model support is planned, but not a simple…

  • Featured LEARNing: Virtual Classes, February 23-27, for Bentley Pointools and Bentley Descartes

    Using Point Clouds in a Geo Workflow Virtual Classroom, United States Feb. 25, 2015 - 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM EST Tomasz Dywanski OR Feb. 27, 2015 - 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST Steven Rick Pointools is a stand-alone, pre-processor of point cloud data…

  • Featured LEARNing: Virtual Classes, February 16-20, for Bentley Pointools and Bentley Descartes

    Click on the course title to see complete course information, additional dates & times, or to register for class. Processing Point Clouds with Bentley Descartes 18 February 2015 – 11:00 EST Virtual Classroom, United States Instructor: Robert Bossler…

  • Featured LEARN Course: Using Point Clouds in a Civil Workflow

    Using point clouds? Maybe you need to change the classification of some points or view several existing point clouds or detect and convert a curb or railway. Which software do you use – MicroStation, Descartes or Pointools? All three support point clouds…

  • Point Cloud Presentation

    Ok, What is the trick to this? Nothing seems to change when I change the presentation style. I am currently working with STM.dgn which is the example drawing for the eLearn training Bentley Descartes for 3D modeling..point cloud is white, no matter which…

  • RE: Point Clouds for a newbie

    You can use Descartes "Smart Snap" to select the highest point along the top of rail to trace the rails or the 3D line follow tool if you have intensities to your point cloud. This will give you a rough horizontal alignment. fyi- InRoads ss3 has a …

  • RE: Point Clouds for a newbie

    Hi, The following channel has lots of videos that will aid you with your workflow. http://www.youtube.com/user/GeoSpatialAE Some specific videos to assist you with creating a dtm: Terrain from Point Cloud : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVLDWyc7n_Q&list…

  • Point Cloud Presentation Styles in Descartes

    Hello. I've created a series of custom custom classes that are included in a custom presentation style in Descartes. When attaching point clouds to navigator, I can import the presentation styles, but the classes don't come with it. Is there any way…

  • What is the best way to model concrete walls with point clouds?

    I must model concrete walls using scan data. The tolerances on a project are very tight and the dimensions need to be within a 16th of an inch accuracy if at all possible. What is the best way to model walls using point cloud data? Thank You!

  • Scalable Terrain Model From Point Cloud Data in Decartes

    Hello, I am trying to create a scalable terrain model from point cloud data using Decartes in Microstation. I am attaching a pts file to the point cloud menu in microstation and converting to a pod file. The point cloud is made of 3 registered scan…

  • Create Section with Drape Element on Point Cloud (Descartes V8i SS4)

    Hi everyone, I've tried to drape a line element on a point cloud of a scanned cavity (see picture below) to generate a section through the cloud. Is there a way to avoid these spikes (red circle in the picture) by chosing something like a maximum distance…

  • Descartes SS4 and Point Clouds

    At the BELearn event in Philadelphia. Just saw a demo on Descartes and point cloud abilities! cool!

  • Newbie needs help, from point cloud to finished 3d model

    Heya, I'd like to first introduce myself: I'm Jacob Collstrup and I'm a surveyor from Denmark. I just got my first job after graduating. My job is to take point clouds into Microstation v8i Descartes SELECTSeries 3 and then model them. This is…

  • Importing Camera Path into Blender

    Hi, We have a client how gave us a camera path txt file from Pointools and we are currently developing a plugin to import the information into Blender for further processing. We have some question about some values in the header of the file. Here is…
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  • Point Cloud Line Draping on Descartes SS3

    Hi , i am trying to drape linear elements onto ground classified point cloud. for some reason it is not working. an error pops up saying "element not valid for tool" Any help greatly appreciated John

  • Re: Pointools V8i - Random errors when editing clouds

    I am getting The following error on export: No Points in import stream (Error -103) I have also tried exporting as Selected Points, and using the clip box, to no avail. Please advise.

  • Pointools V8i - Random errors when editing clouds

    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…
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  • Classification of Point Cloud

    Hello! I tried to change a Classification of pont in Descartes SS3 as it was shown in movies and described in Help. But it doesn't work. Maybe is here any specific thing in this process? In my point cloud all in class Unclassified and can change…

  • Using Point Tools with 64bit RAM

    Hello everyone Somebody asked me if there is a new release of Point Tools that will use the full memory of a 64bit RAM. The product must have this ability as the volume of data is huge. Does anyone know how could this request be solved? …
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