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Work with your scan data using various tools in the Project Navigator.
Type:
Tutorial
Length:
8 min.
Transcript
00:03
Within Recap Pro, the Project Navigator provides several tools for working with your project data,
00:09
including View States, Scan Regions, Scan Locations, Annotations, and Classifications.
00:18
To open the Project Navigator, click its icon on the Project screen.
00:24
You can preserve custom visualizations within your project by creating a View State.
00:30
Each state saves camera orientation data, as well as current render settings in the application.
00:36
Click Add view state (+) to create a new view state with the current view settings.
00:42
Add a meaningful Name, and then press ENTER.
00:48
Once a view is created, you can navigate back to a saved state by selecting the entry within the Project Navigator.
00:56
View states can be updated at any time by clicking Update view state with the current view settings.
01:03
This retakes the view state with the current camera orientation and render settings.
01:09
To remove a view state, click Delete view state.
01:15
View states can be created in RealView or 3D View.
01:20
It may be useful to create a similar view state in each view, so that you can toggle between them easily.
01:27
Once you have some view states created,
01:30
you can click Play animation to generate an animation that moves seamlessly between view states,
01:36
maintaining a sense of context within the model.
01:39
You can also export this animation as a video, which can be useful for creating presentations or work packet materials, for example.
01:49
Click Export animation to open the export video dialog.
01:54
Enter the desired settings, such as the format and resolution, and whether you want the video to loop.
02:01
Then, click Export to save the video.
02:06
Another useful tool in the Project Navigator is Scan Regions.
02:11
Point clouds can consist of millions of points.
02:15
Setting up scan regions can help you visualize an existing scene in different configurations
02:21
by keeping only the regions that you want to see turned on.
02:25
Scan regions are selection based; this is different from Classifications, in which each point is assigned a classification ID.
02:34
To create a scan region, use the various tools to select the region that you want to include.
02:40
Then, click New Region in the Contextual tile menu, or click Add scan region (+) in the Project Navigator.
02:49
Add a meaningful name, and then press ENTER.
02:53
Scan regions can be exported as RCP, RCS, PTS, or E57 file formats; or they can be imported from CSV files.
03:05
These files, typically generated in a text editor or spreadsheet application, should define the scan regions as:
03:13
name, min x, min y, min z, max x, max y, and max z.
03:22
In this example, a CSV is imported with multiple scan regions.
03:29
To remove a scan region, click Delete for that region.
03:34
In the resulting dialog, choose Region to unassign any points in the region,
03:39
or Points + Region to remove the points from the project and delete the region.
03:44
Options are available to set the region color, toggle visibility, and lock its properties to prevent selection of that area.
03:54
The next tool in the Project Navigator is Scan Locations.
03:60
Each indexed scan file that you import has its scan location listed in the Project Navigator.
04:07
It also appears as a mirror ball in the scene, and as a part of the mini-map in the 2D viewer.
04:14
You can use any of these to navigate the scene, but only the entries listed in the Project Navigator allow you to edit the scans.
04:23
After they are incorporated into a project, scan locations become less important,
04:28
since the scan regions you create generally include more than one location.
04:34
However, you can hide and show locations, or even remove them from a project,
04:39
if you need to simplify the view or remove extraneous areas of the point cloud.
04:45
The Annotations tool in the Project Navigator houses your distance measurements, notes, and markups.
04:53
Once you measure a distance, for example, you can see it under Annotations.
04:59
Click Add details to annotation to add a note or even an image.
05:05
You can toggle the visibility of an annotation on or off.
05:10
Click Move to this annotation to return to the location where the annotation was made.
05:17
You can delete annotations directly in the scene or by clicking Delete annotation in the Project Navigator.
05:25
The Classifications group displays points that have been assigned to specific classes.
05:32
In this example, the imported point cloud was created, but has not been classified yet.
05:39
The default color of unclassified points is grey.
05:43
You can change the Color Mode to Classification if you have various classifications to visualize.
05:50
Finally, the Attached Projects group allows you to enrich your RealView panorama with Navisworks data
05:57
covering the same general region.
05:60
This can be useful for validating the positioning of your mesh models with your point cloud.
06:06
Select the NWD to attach and observe the mesh overlaid with the point cloud.
06:11
From the Project Navigator, you can toggle project visibility,
06:17
refresh the project,
06:20
or delete it.
06:23
You can use these Project Navigator tools in combination with each other
06:27
to help clean up your point cloud model.
06:31
Start by hiding the visibility of all Scan Locations, as in this example.
06:37
Then, toggle the visibility of each scan location one-by-one to help you create Scan Regions.
06:44
Use the selection tools to refine each region selection.
06:49
Once your regions have been created to match the scan locations,
06:52
you can automatically convert them to classifications.
06:56
Under Classifications, click Convert regions to classifications.
07:02
In the dialog, select which existing regions to convert, and then select the desired classification for points in the regions.
07:12
In this case, Reserve classifications are selected.
07:16
You can rename them later.
07:19
Click Convert to complete the process.
07:23
Similar to scan regions, classifications have options to set the color, toggle visibility, and lock properties to prevent selection of that area.
07:34
However, unlike scan regions, which can be deleted without removing the points,
07:39
deleting a classification removes the points from the project in addition to deleting the classification that contains them.
Video transcript
00:03
Within Recap Pro, the Project Navigator provides several tools for working with your project data,
00:09
including View States, Scan Regions, Scan Locations, Annotations, and Classifications.
00:18
To open the Project Navigator, click its icon on the Project screen.
00:24
You can preserve custom visualizations within your project by creating a View State.
00:30
Each state saves camera orientation data, as well as current render settings in the application.
00:36
Click Add view state (+) to create a new view state with the current view settings.
00:42
Add a meaningful Name, and then press ENTER.
00:48
Once a view is created, you can navigate back to a saved state by selecting the entry within the Project Navigator.
00:56
View states can be updated at any time by clicking Update view state with the current view settings.
01:03
This retakes the view state with the current camera orientation and render settings.
01:09
To remove a view state, click Delete view state.
01:15
View states can be created in RealView or 3D View.
01:20
It may be useful to create a similar view state in each view, so that you can toggle between them easily.
01:27
Once you have some view states created,
01:30
you can click Play animation to generate an animation that moves seamlessly between view states,
01:36
maintaining a sense of context within the model.
01:39
You can also export this animation as a video, which can be useful for creating presentations or work packet materials, for example.
01:49
Click Export animation to open the export video dialog.
01:54
Enter the desired settings, such as the format and resolution, and whether you want the video to loop.
02:01
Then, click Export to save the video.
02:06
Another useful tool in the Project Navigator is Scan Regions.
02:11
Point clouds can consist of millions of points.
02:15
Setting up scan regions can help you visualize an existing scene in different configurations
02:21
by keeping only the regions that you want to see turned on.
02:25
Scan regions are selection based; this is different from Classifications, in which each point is assigned a classification ID.
02:34
To create a scan region, use the various tools to select the region that you want to include.
02:40
Then, click New Region in the Contextual tile menu, or click Add scan region (+) in the Project Navigator.
02:49
Add a meaningful name, and then press ENTER.
02:53
Scan regions can be exported as RCP, RCS, PTS, or E57 file formats; or they can be imported from CSV files.
03:05
These files, typically generated in a text editor or spreadsheet application, should define the scan regions as:
03:13
name, min x, min y, min z, max x, max y, and max z.
03:22
In this example, a CSV is imported with multiple scan regions.
03:29
To remove a scan region, click Delete for that region.
03:34
In the resulting dialog, choose Region to unassign any points in the region,
03:39
or Points + Region to remove the points from the project and delete the region.
03:44
Options are available to set the region color, toggle visibility, and lock its properties to prevent selection of that area.
03:54
The next tool in the Project Navigator is Scan Locations.
03:60
Each indexed scan file that you import has its scan location listed in the Project Navigator.
04:07
It also appears as a mirror ball in the scene, and as a part of the mini-map in the 2D viewer.
04:14
You can use any of these to navigate the scene, but only the entries listed in the Project Navigator allow you to edit the scans.
04:23
After they are incorporated into a project, scan locations become less important,
04:28
since the scan regions you create generally include more than one location.
04:34
However, you can hide and show locations, or even remove them from a project,
04:39
if you need to simplify the view or remove extraneous areas of the point cloud.
04:45
The Annotations tool in the Project Navigator houses your distance measurements, notes, and markups.
04:53
Once you measure a distance, for example, you can see it under Annotations.
04:59
Click Add details to annotation to add a note or even an image.
05:05
You can toggle the visibility of an annotation on or off.
05:10
Click Move to this annotation to return to the location where the annotation was made.
05:17
You can delete annotations directly in the scene or by clicking Delete annotation in the Project Navigator.
05:25
The Classifications group displays points that have been assigned to specific classes.
05:32
In this example, the imported point cloud was created, but has not been classified yet.
05:39
The default color of unclassified points is grey.
05:43
You can change the Color Mode to Classification if you have various classifications to visualize.
05:50
Finally, the Attached Projects group allows you to enrich your RealView panorama with Navisworks data
05:57
covering the same general region.
05:60
This can be useful for validating the positioning of your mesh models with your point cloud.
06:06
Select the NWD to attach and observe the mesh overlaid with the point cloud.
06:11
From the Project Navigator, you can toggle project visibility,
06:17
refresh the project,
06:20
or delete it.
06:23
You can use these Project Navigator tools in combination with each other
06:27
to help clean up your point cloud model.
06:31
Start by hiding the visibility of all Scan Locations, as in this example.
06:37
Then, toggle the visibility of each scan location one-by-one to help you create Scan Regions.
06:44
Use the selection tools to refine each region selection.
06:49
Once your regions have been created to match the scan locations,
06:52
you can automatically convert them to classifications.
06:56
Under Classifications, click Convert regions to classifications.
07:02
In the dialog, select which existing regions to convert, and then select the desired classification for points in the regions.
07:12
In this case, Reserve classifications are selected.
07:16
You can rename them later.
07:19
Click Convert to complete the process.
07:23
Similar to scan regions, classifications have options to set the color, toggle visibility, and lock properties to prevent selection of that area.
07:34
However, unlike scan regions, which can be deleted without removing the points,
07:39
deleting a classification removes the points from the project in addition to deleting the classification that contains them.
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