More Detailed Point Cloud Options

Hide wall and Ceilings

The Hide Walls and Ceilings feature hides surfaces when they are viewed from the side that was not captured during scanning. For example, if a wall was scanned from only one side, the opposite side will not be displayed when this mode is enabled. The same behavior applies to ceilings. For example, top-floor ceilings are generally scanned from below. When viewing the site from above with this feature enabled, those ceilings will not be visible, allowing a clear view into the interior. In standard viewing mode, the surface that appears to serve as a ceiling is usually the ceiling structure that faces the inside.

Users have the option to either conceal or reveal the building's walls and ceilings, which provides a more unobstructed view of the interior.

Automatic Activation

• If Automatic activation is enabled, all Datasets in a Site are automatically displayed in Point cloud mode.

• If Automatic activation is disabled you can see point clouds in a site by changing the view, refer to Setting views.

Quality Point cloud Options

Detailed Quality Settings

• Range (m): Controls the maximum distance (from the camera perspective) at which points are still displayed.

• Level of detail: Controls the size and resolution at which the points are rendered. The minimum resolution is 5 mm.

• Point count target (M): Controls how many points are shown (in millions). Beyond that number no more points are rendered. This setting strongly influences performance.

• Minimum node size (px): Show points only if they are part of a node larger than indicated (in pixels on the screen, e.g. 10 x 10). A node is a group of points. A higher minimum node size means points in smaller nodes are ignored.

To see the information about the quality pre-sets refer to Point Cloud Pre-set Options for Quality

Perspective Appearance Point cloud Options

Detailed Perspective Appearance Settings

• Opacity: Render points transparently (low opacity) vs. opaque (high).

• Brightness: Controls how much "light" points give off. Only available when Opacity is different from 1.

• Color style: Choose how the point clouds are colored.

  • Single color: Uses the dataset color as set in Alignment mode. This setting will colorize the whole point cloud into a single color, showing a better visualization of the depth and edges of the point cloud.

  • Full color: Shows colored point clouds. Point clouds are colored during post-processing using color information from images.

  • Elevation: Points are rendered in rainbow colors corresponding to their height value. At the Min height (m), points are blue, and at the Max height (m), points are red.

  • Normals: Points are colored based on direction of their Normals.

  • Intensity: Points are rendered based on the intensity of the reflected laser.

  • Intensity gradient: Points are colored on a blue to red gradient based on the intensity of the reflected laser.

• Point size mode: Choose how point size is determined.

  • Fixed: All points have the same size, as controlled by the Point size setting.

  • Attenuated: Takes distance of point from camera into account.

  • Adaptive: Takes distance from camera and point cloud resolution into account.

• Point size: Point diameter.

• Point shape: Choose whether to render the points as squares or as circles.

• Enhance edges: Adds a black border to the points.

Orthographic Appearance Point cloud Options

Detailed Orthographic Appearance Settings

The Orthographic appearance setting is exclusively accessible in Dataset alignment, Site model, and Point cloud cleaning modes.

• Opacity: Render points transparently (low opacity) vs. opaque (high).

• Color style: Choose how the point clouds are colored.

  • Single color: Uses the dataset color as set in Alignment mode. This setting will colorize the whole point cloud into a single color, showing a better visualization of the depth and edges of the point cloud.

  • Full color: Shows colored point clouds. Point clouds are colored during post-processing using color information from images.

  • Elevation: Points are rendered in rainbow colors corresponding to their height value. At the Min height (m), points are blue, and at the Max height (m), points are red.

  • Normals: Points are colored based on direction of their Normals.

  • Intensity: Points are rendered based on the intensity of the reflected laser.

  • Intensity gradient: Points are colored on a blue to red gradient based on the intensity of the reflected laser.

• Point size: Point diameter.

• Point shape: Choose whether to render the points as squares or as circles.

• Normals filitering: Selects or removes points based on the orientation of their surface normal vectors to retain only surfaces with desired geometric characteristics.

Detailed Perspective Appearance Settings

To see the information about the quality pre-sets refer to Point Cloud Pre-set Options for Perspective appearance