General improvements
Software languages
The software is now available in
• English
• Italian
• Chinese
New navigation tools and modes
• New navigation with a "cameraman" avatar: navigation can be now with anti-rolling, simulating human movements while rotating; a "cameraman" avatar is displayed in the bottom left corner of the 3D window to picture how user is rotated. The user can turn "anti-rolling" functionality ON and OFF
• New walk mode to easily navigate in urban models or large datasets, simulating human walk
• Zoom tool has been re-implemented and improved. User can draw as a rectangle the new viewport where he/she wants to zoom in
• Pivot modes and Bubble modes: navigation controls have been modified and improved, in pivot mode and in bubble mode. Ambiguities in rotation types have been solved, now user can rotate freely or perform only camera pan, only camera tilt, only camera roll
• New UCS tool to work with user-defined coordinate systems has been introduced; the new tool improves plane definition, cross section and orthophoto extraction, and CAD connection. The axes system displayed on bottom left of the 3D window represents now the current UCS; antirolling is synchronized with "current UCS" function.
• New Link Tool to link you 3D data to any external document or web page. Also, the objects inside the JRC 3D Reconstructor project can be linked with each other for a more efficient data management
Important notes:
• JRC 3D Reconstructor Viewer is Windows 7 compatible. To install JRC 3D Reconstructor Full and modules (Core, Lock, Surface, Photo) on Windows 7 please contact us at
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• JRC 3D Reconstructor projects from version 2.5 and older are compatible with the new 2.6 version; the new 2.6 projects cannot be opened with older JRC 3D Reconstructor versions
FREE VIEWER
New free viewer to:
• Open existing JRC 3D Reconstructor projects
• Extract basic measurements
• Read the Hyperlink property of all items (LINK tool)
• Fly in the model according to predefined trajectories
CORE
Importing
• New FARO SDK, Vista compatible
• New OPTECH ILRIS ixf library
• New Topcon plugin
• New ZF SDK
• New rxp filter with rivlib for importing the Riegl V scans
• Import LAS by splitting multiple returns on different items – for MOBILE and AIRBORNE systems
• New import/export of PLY point clouds, added colour to import/export of PLY point clouds
• Import PTC with geo-referenced coordinates (computing offset)
Data organization and filtering
• In the project window, new possibility of creating groups at every level
• In the project window the Hyperlink property to all items for LINK tool
• Load/save processing parameters in pre-processing dialog, for easier and faster pre-processing phase
• In the pre-processing dialog, the user can now choose between serial and parallel processing of the models. From our tests, serial processing is stabler since it doesn't cause many threads to fight for RAM memory
• New point selection tools: recipe window for point selection with polyline
• New volumetric selection: according to USC bounding box
Survey tools
• New Area Tool calculation from mesh or point cloud, selecting with sel. tools or polyline, supported by recipe windows
• New Volume tool, supported by recipe windows for Volume Calculation
• New Plane and Cross Section items
• Cross section or drawn polyline can be displayed with different colour ID
• New 2D Draw - new tool to create 2D drawings on user defined planes, by selecting 3D points from your point clouds or meshes
• New multiple cross section GUI: multiple cross sections can be extracted according to spaced steps,
• Cross section now is computed only within the bounds of the plane
• Added support for AutoCAD 2010 32/64 for SendToKubit: if UCS is checked the sent coordinates are in the current UCS, otherwise in object coordinates
• Dynamic point list: the point coordinates are shown always relative to the current UCS
• New modified adjust pose widget: option to translate or rotate the pose in object or UCS coordinates
• New procedure to import JRC 3D Reconstructor orthophoto in AutoCAD: a Ortho_AUTOCAD_import file is provided
• Points PLY export : export of global coordinates, normal and colour options
• Meshes PLY export : export PLY meshes with optional normal, vertex colours, global coordinates
• Tunnelling tools: improved tool for cross section along tunnel axes and cylindrical re-projection of tunnel face
LOCK
• Improved Geo-referencing tools:
- define external points in Geo-reference window (useful for fixed points, like scan origin)
- added insert origin into point list command for each tree item, useful for geo-referencing
• Possibility to make a backup of your 3D object positions: export pose to file command
• Best fitting registration works now also with rotation option: scan X,Y,Z position can be fixed and the best fitting works only on the rotations
SURFACE
• New Delaunay 2.5D meshing algorithm for grid and unstructured point clouds
• New Recipe window for Delaunay 2.5D meshing
PHOTO• Ask name of new survey camera with a dialog
• New
open button in the texture mapping dialog to load existing mappings from disk
• New progress to texture map builder during texture coordinate generation
CONTROL for FARO Photon
• New camera calibration procedure
New Viewer: free viewer to visualize Reconstructor projects; the new viewer allows to extract linear and angular measures and to add annotations to your models
Installation: pay attention that during the installation some laser scanner libraries could be installed. If so, when the system requires to reboot the PC, please select LATER, in order to conclude the installation of Reconstructor
CORE
New feature for navigation and pre-processing
New View Parameters Window for a user-friendly navigation
New Bubble View
New system to manage geo-referenced data
Hyperlink property
Load/save pre-processing parameters from/to external XML file
New Mask filter in pre-processing
New interface improvements:
Import point list GUI uniformized in each application, to import a point list for geo-referecing or camera calibration
Cleaned Survey menus
Pose tool button in Property Browser
Data survey, import and export
Constrained draw on a plane
Enhanced Point List Window: label, global coordinates:
- Direct import/export of point lists
- Creation of a trajectory directly from Point List window
- Defining open/close polylines from Point List
Generate cross section planes along a trajectory at constant space
Import unstructured ASCII: recognize also comma separators
Autosave of polylines and trajectories
Import/export PLY point clouds
Export ASCII, PTC, DXF with global coordinates
LOCK
New system to manage geo-referenced data
Import ascii clouds by subtracting offset
Import georeferenced ptc, xyz, asc
Import trajectory (txt, dxf) from big coordinates
Faro import translation as offset global reference
Change offset function
Define external points in Geo-reference window (useful for fixed points, like scan origin)
Register 2 point lists
ICP with constrained position option
Reg from 2 lists with offset, subtract project offset option
Revamped point selection and matching of labels in geo/pre-reg
SURFACE
Load/save meshing parameters from/to external XML file
PHOTO
Revamped point selection and matching of labels in calibration
OpenCV 1.1, using k3 radial distortion
Intrinsic calibration from chessboards
Cleaned Create Camera
General improvements
64 bit version available for Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003 64 bit.
New flexible licensing system: it supports both software and hardware keys, also with server key solution.
New installation procedure, default path is now under C:\Programs\Gexcel\JRC Reconstructor 2
CORE
New optional navigation system: 3-button mouse navigation option.
New wizard when the software starts: the user can decide to create a new project or open an existing one.
Reconstructor project are now saved with the new default project extension (recprj), old projects are fully compatible with the new version.
Saving the project, last camera view is recorded. Opening the saved project, last camera view is restored in order to pick up the work.
New readout window to easily read and copy 3D points coordinates. Pressing C button, 3D points coordinates can be copied on clipboard.
Drag and drop import system: groups of laser data (fls, ptx, ixf, 3dd, zfc, zfs) can be imported easily trough a drag and drop system.
Import/Export XML node of a project to a file: planes, cameras, cross section, etc. can be saved and exchanged among different projects.
Video Creation: import trajectory in dxf from external 3D polylines or txt format from list of 3D coordinates.
Polylines creation: is now possible to convert flythrough trajectory to polyline (only key positions) and to export it dxf.
Cylindrical virtual scan: piecewise cylinder virtual scan along a flythrough (i.e. for tunnelling scan integration).
New points list window: is now dockable and editable and is possible add selected points from Edit2D in the global point list.
LOCK
Global Referencing System: to work with geo-referenced “large” coordinates. For new projects is possible to select the 2 types of reference system (LatLonAlt, Offset).
New Geo-referencing tool: each single scan can be geo-referenced according to topographical data.
SURFACE
New mesh editor: to create a 3D Delaunay triangulation from points list (selected in the new points list window) based on any desired projection plane. The tool can be used to fill mesh holes or to create simplified 3D models.
New 3D volume editor: to compute a Delaunay tetrahedralization from points list (selected in the new points list window). The tool can be used to create simplified hull model and to calculate volumes.
PHOTO
Rectified projectors are now saved as TIFF file.
New automatic image selector: to select automatically the relevant projectors (calibrated images) usable for texture mapping according to a selected point of view.
New automatic function to select relevant models inside the frustum of a projector (calibrated images) for a correct shadows evaluation before texture mapping.
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