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What’s new in 3Dsurvey version 2.12

Screenshot of manipulating points in 3Dsurvey software
What’s new in 3Dsurvey version 2.12

In update 2.12. we focused more on the technical aspect of our software. How to make it faster, easier for the hardware and a more pleasant user experience.

MORE ROBUST BUNDLE ADJUSTMENT

One of the most wanted improvements for 2020! More matched images for ‘critical’ data sets.

Extremely robust Bundle Adjustment (BA) even for most difficult terrains with minimum overlap. 

High vegetation, low image overlap because of terrain difference, blurry images usually cause that all images are not successfully matched in BA step. New, more robust Bundle Adjustment achieves 30 to 50% more matched images in comparison to previous version!

Comparison of successfully matched images in 3Dsurvey
More matched images

SIDE ORTHOPHOTO 

Facade orthophoto with the help of a custom plane – no more limits for 2D orthophoto generation! Select your orthophoto plane and create orthophoto images of any object you would like to have. Generate a building facade orthophoto in no time and extract 2D information you need in the simple way.

NEW MATCHING PAIR PRESELECTION

FOR MUCH FASTER CALCULATION WHEN NO TELEMETRY IS AVAILABLE

In case you are doing hand shots with a standard digital camera, you usually don’t have telemetry data from the images (accurate GPS position). This means that in the processing step, the software needs to match all possible combinations of image pairs. In case you have 1000+ images, with the new matching pair pre-selections, we speed up this step for more than 100 times.

Bundle adjustment wizard showing various modes for pair selection in 3Dsurvey software
Selecting pair selection when there is no telemetry

TRIAL – TIME UNLIMITED

Trial version is time unlimited. This means that after 14 days of trial use you can still work with the 3Dsurvey software and use it as a viewer mode. You can view your project, inspect the results, calculate new projects but you are limited with saving and exporting options.

CALCULATE MESH BASED ON CAD POINTS

Calculate 2.5D mesh based on CAD points in no time! Easiest way to convert your GPS/GNSS data or total station points into surfaces perfect for volume calculations, contour lines calculations and more.

3D MOVE OPTION 

FOR POINT CLOUDS AND MESH FILES

With the 3Dsurvey 2.12 version you have the option now to move the entire point cloud or mesh for a specific vector (value) which you just simply enter in the move value dialog box.

Screenshot of the move dialog box in 3Dsurvey
Move value dialog box

TRANSFORM MESH TO POINT CLOUD

Now you have an option to calculate point cloud based on Mesh data. This could help you in case you only have Mesh data and you would like to calculate the profile lines or cross sections.

Create point cloud based on Mesh and then use the standard workflow for profile line calculation. Another useful application would be if you have holes in point cloud and you would like to interpolate points in between – go and generate mesh from the default point cloud and the reverse calculate point cloud from generated mesh – this will give you point cloud without holes.

QUICK LINKS

Use right mouse click and Save or Delete selected PC or Mesh; quickly calculate texture for already generated Mesh or any select any other available option. Work smarter and faster than anytime before!

Screenshot showing calculate texture quick link in 3Dsurvey
Calculate texture quick link

REDUCED DISK USAGE

FOR MORE THAN 55%

In version 2.12, we optimized the disk usage during the dense reconstruction step for more than 55%! This means that if you before need to have 100 GB free disk space for point cloud reconstruction in 2.11 now you just need 40 GB free disk space!

Graph showing reduced disk space for 400 images of Phantom 4 Pro in 3Dsurvey
Disk space needed

OPTIMIZED MESH TEXTURE on GPU

Any selection, change between tabs or deleting the data caused additional time to render the end results. This is now fully optimized for best user experience.

IMPROVED SCRIPT ENGINE

3Dsurvey also offers script engine support. In 3Dsurvey version 2.12 we additionally improve script function with new functionalities.

Screenshot of script

NEW INFO BOX

FOR MORE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF WHAT’S UNDER MOUSE CURSOR IN 3D VIEW (volumes, point snapping, CAD drawing)

Move your mouse over the volume result and inspect height CUT and FILL value in real time! If you are doing a volume calculation report you will love it!

LEVEL OPTION FOR TEXTURE CALCULATION

In case your graphic card does not handle calculating the full texture resolution for 3D mesh, you now have an option to calculate the texture on Full, Half or Quarter resolution.

Mesh calculation wizard box showing options for texture resolution selection in 3Dsurvey
Select texture resolution
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