Visualizing point clouds in Siteworks

Collected point clouds are visualized in the 3D window on the main Siteworks screen. When the 3D window is in the main panel, tap the surface selection icon from the 3D view toolbar and select Scanned Data.

A progress bar appears while Siteworks creates the necessary database files in the currently opens Scan Data folder of the work order.

All standard 3D view controls for center on position, zoom extents, rotate, zoom, etc., all work the same with point clouds, as with surfaces.

All scans collected in the currently open work order are displayed. To change the colors of the scan data, tap the palette icon . The following options appear:

Option	Description
Scan Color	Each individual scan is colored separately
Station Color	All scans from a given station are the same color
Gray Scaled Intensity	All scans are gray scale based on the intensity values
Color Coded Intensity	All scans are colorized based on the intensity values

You cannot set the colors of individual scans. Also, “true color” scans based on a colorized point cloud extracted from the photo panoramas are not available in Siteworks.

To open the Scanned Data info screen, tap when scanned data are selected. This screen displays the colors of the individual scans, and lets you turn the display of individual scans off and on by tapping the Enabled check box.