Release Notes - 2nd August 2024

New Features

New Streaming 3D Vector Technology (beta)

We have been developing our own technology to support streaming of large 3D vector datasets to the browser. This involves building multi-resolution tiles for large datasets and dynamically streaming levels of detail as you move around. The same system is used for map display - so any styling or filtering in the 3D is fully reflected in the map view now.

In addition to supporting much larger vector datasets, the new approach also adds:

• Filtering of displayed data by attribute values.
• Additional styling options.
• Searching for entities in the dataset by attributes.

The new format is currently in beta testing and will be enabled for beta test customers immediately, prior to a full rollout in the near future.

Support for Video Datasets

A new Video dataset type has been added. You can upload video files as a dataset and the video will be processed to optimize it for web streaming. Videos will appear in the dataset panel in the viewer and you can use the play button to view them. If there is GPS metadata - either in the video file or via a separate GPX file (coming soon), the GPS track of the imported videos can be displayed in the 3D viewer and synced with the video playback.

Updated Photo Viewer

The existing photo viewer component has been reworked. It has a number of improved and new features:

• New layout modes to organise the placement of the main view, the thumbnail, and the controls
• Ability to search and filter photos
• Ability to control the size of thumbnails
• Browse/view photos from several photosets at the same time (includes photo inspection)
• Adjust and save the default view/zoom/rotation of each photo
• Optimized thumbnail loading
• Reverse inspection mode (click a point on the image to view in 3D). This is still experimental.

Photo annotations

There is now a photo annotation capability. This allows you to draw shapes on top of photos to highlight areas of interest. A label and notes can also be attached to the shape. You can search for photos that have annotations - this provides a basic photo inspection workflow.

Improvements/Changes

Pointerra3D Core

• Added support for importing DGN and DWG as vector datasets (initial version does not support layer styles - this will be coming soon).
• Added loading progress indicator to ScanView images.
• Improved the processing pipeline for large E57 files (e.g. > 250GB single E57 file) to speed up processing and improve reliability.
• Modified the share link loading so that users no longer get logged out (ie switched to a guest user) when loading a share link in another browser tab.
• Increase 3D Model file size limits through internal pipeline improvements - some larger 3D models that previously failed to process should now work.
• Add support for additional texture file formats on 3D Models (TIF, TGA, GIF, BMP).
• Add better error message for 360_photo processing.
• Added a button to the top right user menu that allows rapid switching to another user identity (for customers using identities).
• Added a report option to download a network linked KML file that includes live point cloud boundaries which are automatically updated as projects are added/deleted. This can be used as a layer in ArcGIS Pro and other KML clients.

LiDAR Processing

• Added stripalign QC logs to the pre-processing job details page.

Analytics

• Added a new analytics algorithm (Line Volume Classifier) to perform an "inside box" buffer classification of points along a vector line. This analytic will reclassify all points that lie inside a box, specified by a width, height, and optional ground offset along the path specified by the input linestring. This should be useful for corridor encroachment testing and similar scenarios that required testing for clashes along a corridor.
• Added tool to configure and assign custom double/companion pole sub-types.

Utility Explorer

• Network report updated to include pole annotations, connection point height on pole, and additional ID fields across various components.
• Pole reports now include pole types and companion pole id if they exist.
• Additional attributes in network exports.
• New customisable survey finding schemas added to allow companies to specify the fields to use for the image inspection form.
• Top level pole filters now correctly cascade (so choosing a value on a filter limits the available selections on dependent filters).
• Pole search respects any applied scope - so the search will only find poles that are within the current selection.
• Add new "Has Attachments" computed attribute. Note: only for new datasets. existing datasets will need to be republished to get the new attribute.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where initial Scanview heading would change when switching between RGB and INT modes.
• Fixed the help links on the support form not being clickable