Attach raster from ContextShare

This would make more sense to have a common aerial stream for multiple sources, instead of duplicating raster sources for desktop and cloud services.

Side note, have you tried enabling ProjectWise raster streaming?:

Enabling Streaming for Point Cloud and Raster References (bentley.com)

Hi Mark,

Mark Shamoun said:

Side note, have you tried enabling ProjectWise raster streaming?:

Enabling Streaming for Point Cloud and Raster References (bentley.com)

This is interesting, thanks for sharing. We will test this functionality. Perhaps, addition of 3SM scalable meshes streaming to PW streaming service would be nice which would be alternative to streaming in PW from ContextShare.

Mark Shamoun said:

This would make more sense to have a common aerial stream for multiple sources, instead of duplicating raster sources for desktop and cloud services.

Common source for PW and iTwin makes sense but how would that be configured? PW raster streaming plus iTwin using the same source? We would need raster streaming rather than static files display in iTwin.

Another nice option would be dynamic draping of these raster files onto Bing terrain in iTwin - or even onto dgn terrain (avoiding creation of 3SMs). 

Hi Mariusz,

Mariusz Heczko said:

This is interesting, thanks for sharing. We will test this functionality. Perhaps, addition of 3SM scalable meshes streaming to PW streaming service would be nice which would be alternative to streaming in PW from ContextShare.

Agree, however 3SM is not as refined and integrated into the DGN environment as it should be in my opinion. Automated cloud-based 3SM generation for end users (not ContextCapture) and streaming would take it to the next level.

Mariusz Heczko said:

Common source for PW and iTwin makes sense but how would that be configured? PW raster streaming plus iTwin using the same source? We would need raster streaming rather than static files display in iTwin.

I was more thinking of ContextShare streaming into Microstation and iTwin. We can already reference models from iTwin so almost there. An option for on the fly draping seems like standard functionality you would expect from a brand new cloud service platform.

Hi Mark,

Mark Shamoun said:

I was more thinking of ContextShare streaming into Microstation and iTwin. We can already reference models from iTwin so almost there. An option for on the fly draping seems like standard functionality you would expect from a brand new cloud service platform.

Yeah, this is what my intention was in the first place.

Also, we need guidance on uploading ecw files to ContextShare.

Create a 3SM from ECW and upload. Internally 3SM is converted to JPEG unfortunately.

Create a 3SM from ECW and upload. Internally 3SM is converted to JPEG unfortunately.