Detailed Point Cloud Options

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 need to manually select the datasets that you want to see in point cloud mode.

Quality Point cloud Options

Individual 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.

Quality Pre-sets

Perspective Appearance Point cloud Options

Individual 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.

  • 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.

Perspective Appearance Pre-sets