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Pointools View 1.6 Release Notes
build 1.6061030

Overview

This release adds a number of important features and fixes some issues with previous releases:

Snapshots can be now rendered in Piranesi's EPix format. Piranesi is a specialised '3D painting' tool, allowing you to start with a simple rendering of a 3D model, and quickly develop it into high quality images for presentation. See the Informatix website for more information on Piranesi.

We've also added a uniform spatial filter option on import of point cloud data. This allows you to filter the points on import to a uniform spacing, very useful in cases where density varies greatly due to overlapping scan data or data close to and further away from the scanner.

Support for the Faro scan format (.fls) and workspace files (fws) have also been added.

A more detail breakdown of the various additions, improvements and fixes follows below:


Key

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Important Notice

+

New feature

-

Removed feature

*

Improved feature

#

Changed feature

!

Bug fix


Changed Feature List

+

Faro fls and fws import

+

Proxy data shows point cloud position before data starts loading
+

Uniform point sampling allows spatial uniform reduction of data on import
#

Clip box handles now work by click and drag. Use Alt to navigate.
*

PTS importer recognises and imports normals
*

Improved clipbox performance
*

Updated User Guide
*

Interface improvements
*

Models render with textures in Snapshots and Movies
*

Importing / Exporting and Snapshot memory management improved
*

Larger snapshots possible with limited memory
!

PTS importer intensity values were incorrect
!

Hardware acceleration turned off caused software crash
!

Lack of graphics card support for required features caused software crash
!

Plane shader not working correctly with Clip-box
!

Showing motion path sometimes crashed application
!

Network paths for models in ptl file not working
!

Improved stability when closing application
!

Other minor fixes

In future releases

We are continuing to develop and improve Pointools View over the coming months. Some things you can expect to see are:

Customisable user interface colours.

Multiple clip boxes.

Other stuff that we're keeping quite for now!

Move powerful measurement capability.

Embedded plan overview in notes HTML export.

Got an idea?

Many features in our software have been developed as a direct result of feature requests from our users. So if you have a request you'd like to make please send it to support@pointools.com - you might get it sooner than you think.

 

Pointools Team
October 2006