Supported Devices: Desktops, Laptops, Tablets, Smart Phones.
Supported Browsers: Chrome 44, Firefox 39, IE 11, Safari 8, iOS Safari 8.3, Android Browser 40, and Chrome for Android 42, or newer.
Browsers must be a version sufficient to support WebGL and HTML5.
You can check your browser compatibility with WebGL here.
TruView Enterprise is distributed as a Virtual Machine Appliance with 2 CPUs and 2GB of memory.
The VM engines supported are:
Check the " TruView Enterprise Compatibility Matrix for Servers and Clients" pdf to get detailed information on supported devices and platforms.
TruView Enterprise supports four classes of users:
Each class of user has specific capabilities enabled or not, depending on the class.
Administrator: Has all capabilities enabled
Power Users: Has a user name and password provided by an Administrator
Login User: Has a user name and password provided by an Administrator
Anonymous User: Has no user name or password
TruView Enterprise login users always begin at the "All Sites" starting page after logging in. Login users have several different sets of capabilities available to them when using TruView Enterprise.
Login users can manage the setting on their account by entering the Settings page via the Settings menu selection at the top of all pages. Users can manage three areas of settings related to their account.
Note: a user connected to TruView Enterprise with an account imported from a LDAP or Active Directory service cannot change her password.
Select the "Change my info" button on the Settings page.
Select the "Change password" on the Settings page, enter the old password and the new password twice. Then confirm the change hitting the 'Change Password' button in the dialog box.
TruView Enterprise uses English as the default language. It also attempts to recognize the operating system language and if it is not English, and is a currently supported language, then it changes the interface into that language. However, the user can change their account to use a different default language, which forces the interface to always use that language.
The main activity and purpose of TruView is to use the panoramic viewer to review point cloud data of various places in the world and point cloud projects.
In Navigation or Measure mode you can Pan and Zoom.
Panning is the process of moving the direction you are looking. It is similar to turning your head, or panning a video camera. You can look up, down, left or right. There is more than one way to pan in TruView.
By picking any point in the TruView display window with the left mouse button and holding it down you can pan in any direction by dragging the mouse in that direction.
When using a touch device, by default it will be in a new pan mode that will follow your finger direction.
You can change the mode to work in the traditional manner from the floating hand icon in the upper right section of the TruView display window. By touching any point in the TruView display window you can pan by dragging your finger in that direction. The farther you drag from the point you first touched, the faster the scene pans. The red arrow shows the direction and how fast (arrow length) you are panning.
Zooming is the process of moving towards or away from the direction you are looking. It is similar to moving your head closer to or further from a picture. There is more than one way to zoom in TruView.
With a wheel mouse, pick any point in the TruView display window by depressing and holding the wheel and move the mouse down the screen to zoom in and up the screen to zoom out.
Pinch to zoom is enabled on touch devices, pick any point in the TruView display window and with two fingers pinch out to zoom in. Similarly, pick any point in the TruView display window and with two fingers pinch in to zoom out.
This section discusses the fields in the following left Control Panel accordion tabs:
Layers are present in datasets uploaded as LGS files or published from Cyclone or Cyclone REGISTER 360 with a Cyclone PUBLISHER Pro license. Depending on the device used to capture the data, a dataset may contain the following: Infrared (when present in the dataset), HDR, Intensity grayscale and Hue intensity. Clicking on the layer will change the view.
Creating and naming a new Snapshot will open the Create Markups tools, which allows you to place Markups such as arrows, rectangles or text on top of a TruView scene. When you are in Markup mode the view is frozen like a screen capture.
To get out of the Snapshot mode, click the lock icon in the upper right corner of the TruView display window.
To learn more about placing and editing Markups see the Using and Creating Markups section.
Selecting the Take Measurements accordion tab puts you in 3D Measure mode, which lets you move your viewpoint, zoom in (mouse wheel), out and pan around the scene (hold down left mouse button) so you can find and look at your exact area of interest. It also lets you measure between two points, get the coordinate information for a single point and get the temperature information for a point (when an IR layer is present within the dataset). While in 3D Measure mode, your measurements appear in the Measurement Properties table under the Control Panel at the left of the screen. However, this mode does not retain those values as permanent Markups. They disappear if you change modes. If you want to place and save a dimension Markup, use Snapshot Markup Mode.
List of Vertex, Distance and Temperature objects in the current Truview.
Unit: Select Meters, Centimeters, Millimeters, Feet, Inches, Yards, or US Survey Feet
Vertex (Coordinates of a point are displayed.)
#: Number of pick point, X: coordinate of the chosen point, Y: coordinate of the chosen point, Z: coordinate of the chosen point.
Distance: Distance between two selected coordinate points is displayed if two points are selected. Zero is displayed if a coordinate point (XYZ) is chosen.
Delta X: Distance in the x direction between two chosen points.
Delta Y: Distance in the y direction between two chosen points.
Delta Z: Distance in the z direction between two chosen points.
Temperature: Temperature of a selected point in Farenheit, Celsius and Kelvin. No information is displayed if the dataset does not contain an IR layer.
Selecting this tab allows you to change the display criteria of neighboring TruView scenes.
Neighbors / File Mgmt Tab with "Neighbor TruViews", "Display Criteria", and "Markup Data" panes visible.
Max. Visible: The slider will change the number of neighboring TruViews that are displayed. (The default is set by Cyclone TruView PUBLISHER or Cyclone PUBLISHER Pro.) If n is the number of neighboring TruViews to display, then the closest n are displayed.
Distance: Click the toggle to adjust the visibility of neighbor TruViews based on their distance from the current Setup. Use the slider to adjust the acceptable distance.
Elevation: Click the toggle to adjust the visibility of neighbor TruViews based on their elevation. Use the slider to adjust the acceptable elevation.
Color: use the drop down menu to select from one of the pre-defined colors or enter a hex code for a custom color.
Positions: Click this box to toggle the display of all neighboring TruViews.
Labels: Click this box to toggle all of the TruView Neighbor labels.
Use the display filters to set bounds on the Setups that are displayed. This can be useful if you only want to see the one or two Setups rather than 20 or 30 down a highway. Also, you can display Setups only on one floor of a multi-story building with Setups on each floor.
Elevations are relative to the coordinate system of the project (not absolute to the scanner).
The units for Distance and Elevation can be changed from the Units pull down menu.
The Hotlinks Tab allows you to review and edit any of the hotlinks that were created in TruView or published as GeoTags in Cyclone or Cyclone REGISTER 360. Hotlinks can be created by clicking the Add/Remove "+" button.
Click on a Holink in the list and the TruView display window will turn to and zoom to that Holink.
In the GeoTag list once you select a single GeoTag you can then click on the edit button to change its content.
The GeoTag name is a unique id for the GeoTag and cannot be changed once it has been created.
You can edit the Category, the Label and the Link associated with the GeoTag.
GeoTags support 4 types of links:
In the GeoTag edit dialog box you can select the File Link type and type the name of an existing file already uploaded in the current Site. (See
Site Page description for details on how to upload a file ).
The file input provides auto-complete to automatically suggest filenames available for linking.
As you type the list will be filtered to show you only the files that match your current input.
You can also upload a file directly here in the GeoTag editor. To do so click on the Browse button (...) on the right side of the File Link input field and select a file using the file browser.
Drag and Drop a file to upload
The File Link input also accept files from your desktop using drag-and-drop. You can drag any files from your system into the File Link input field and the file will be automatically upload and available also in the File tab in the Site page.
Clicking on the Setup name link in the upper bar displays the Metadata screen. It contains information about the TruView scene that is open. Following is an example of a Metadata screen.
Metadata Screen Example
UID: Unique ID for the scene. This is generated automatically and cannot be changed in TruView.
Background Dim: Dims the parts of the background for which a point cannot be picked, because it was not part of the Setup. This is always ON and cannot be turned off.
Setup Meta: Data about the Setup
Coordinate System: Coordinates of the scanner location for the Setup
Panorama Meta: Shows the maximum error, point count within the display, and size for the given LOD value.
View Defaults: Default values when the view is opened
LOD Meta: Default values when the screen is opened
Owner Info: Information about the publisher of the Setups
Clicking the right mouse button and choosing "Print" allows you to print the metadata.
Click on the Help button to display TruView Help and obtain information about the version of TruView that you are using.
TruView allows you to create Markups on your Snapshots. Markups consist of lines, circles, rectangles, and dimensional information in the form of a coordinate location or the distance between two points.
Several settings can be used to manage the display attributes of the Markups in TruView. You can control:
You can change these values for each entity by selecting it for editing and changing the values in the Markups panel.
To create a Snapshot Markup you simply need to click the "+" button below the Snapshot menu. The after the Snapshot is created click on the named Snapshot to add Markups. These are called "Snapshot Markups" because as soon as you place a Markup the screen is "Frozen" and a Snapshot is created.
After you place a Markup and a Snapshot has been created, you can add other Markups to that Snapshot.
To create another Snapshot with more Markups you need to switch back to 3D Measure mode and change the viewpoint. Now you can start creating more Markups in this new location and they will be placed into a new Snapshot.
You also can recall an existing Snapshot (from the Markups Tab) and add additional Markups to the Snapshot.
Current named view (e.g., Snapshot#101 )
List of drawing objects (Distance, Position, Line, Rectangle) in the current view. Selecting an item in the list highlights that object in the view.
Last Changed On: Date when a specific Markup was last changed. It is only displayed when a Markup is selected.
Created By: Name of the person who created a specific Markup. It is only displayed when a Markup is selected.
Pen Color: Color chosen for lines, shapes and text
Opacity (%): This value determines the shade of the fill color. (A percentage where: zero = opaque and 100 = totally transparent (invisible).)
Fill Color: Color chosen for filling shapes. The actual fill color is the transparency percentage of this color.
Font Name: The type of font that will be used (some Markups will not have this field)
Font Size: The size of the type in points (some Markups will not have this field)
Unit: Choice of meters, centimeters, feet and inches (for relevant dimensional Markups) or Celsius, Fahrenheit or Kelvin (for temperature Markups)
Remove button: Click to delete a selected Markup (line, text, shape, coordinate, etc.)
The Snapshot Markup section of the Navbar provides a variety of Markup types to annotate TruView scenes.
When your first Snapshot Markup is placed on a TruView scene, a new 2D frozen Snapshot image is generated along with your Markup on it. This image is saved in the Snapshot list as an exact, retrievable view of the current camera angle. Snapshots may be renamed in the Snapshot Properties panel.
You can edit any Markup by first selecting it in the view area. "Handles" appear when a Markup is loaded. You can also select the Markup in the list of Markups on the Markup Tab.
Select the Markup in the display area or in the Markup tab list and press the Red button next to the Add/Remove GeoTags.
You can also delete a selecete Markup by hitting the DEL key on your keyboard.
When you create Markups, they are automatically saved in TruView. Therefore, you never need to save the Markups yourself.
When any Markup is selected you can set the properties for this entity in the Markup Properties tab. Different Markup types have different MarkupMarkups properties that apply. For instance, an Arrow Line does not have any valid Font Size property.
The available properties are:
When Markups are created they retain some Metadata. You can see this data displayed in the Markup Properties table on the left Control Panel, Markups accordion tab. The Metadata retains the date the item was created and the Windows login user name that created the Markup.
Several settings can be used to manage the display attributes of the Markups in TruView. You can control:
Font size (of text)
Markups (and Snapshots) are automatically saved as you create them. The next time you visit the same TruView scene you will see all of the Snapshots you created (on the Snapshot tab), and you can recall each Snapshot to review the Markups.
This "saving" is automatic. You do not need to do anything to have the Snapshots saved.
The tab sections of the Navbar and the accordion tabs on the left Control Panel are guides to help users know what mode they are in.
There are several ways to switch between the various modes. Modes switch automatically to a new correct mode as your mouse navigates and performs actions. For example, clicking on a Snapshot Markup tool automatically switches you into the Snapshot Markup mode.
TruView always starts with the 3D Navigation mode activated, highlighting the 3D Measure tools section of the Navbar.
Select Take Measurements from the left Control Panel and select Measure Distance, Angle or Coordinate.
In Measure mode you can pan and zoom as well as take measurements. The properties of your 3D Measurements are displayed in the left Control Panel under Measurement Properties.
Measurements are retained until you switch modes to Snapshot Markup or View mode. When you switch modes, all the measurements are cleared. (Distances between points and coordinate points are saved in the Snapshots created in Snapshot Markup mode.)
View mode works in conjunction with the Measure mode which allows you to pan and zoom through the TruView. You can also move to a previously saved Snapshot Markup view by clicking on the Snapshot name displayed in Snapshots or Snapshot Markups left and right arrow buttons.
The definition of Measure in the Measure mode for TruView is not the same as a Markup Dimension. In Measure mode, measuring is not a drafting or Markup function. It is simply measuring the distance between two points or extracting the coordinate location of a single point. The measurement values are shown in the Measure Properties Panel. However, in Snapshot Markup mode measuring is a "permanent" Markup function, saved in individual Snapshot views.
Administrators and Power Users can upload new Sites to TruView Enterprise. Once uploaded, these Sites will become available for users to see and visit. The process requires a few easy steps.
Once the user has a file for upload, either via TruView Pack & Go or via publishing from Cyclone or Cyclone REGISTER 360, select the "Add Sites" button from the TruView Enterprise Sites page and the "Upload New Data Sets" page will open.
Once you have successfully uploaded a new Site:
After uploading Sites, the Administrator can manage the Sites in various ways.
Note: Certain functions are available ony while logged in as an Administrator or Power User.
Selecting a Site: If you select with the mouse cursor in the white space of a Site listing, it activates the editing controls. You can use these edit controls to manage the Site attributes. See image below.
Each Site can be associated with a group name. By default the list of available Sites is organized by group. You can easily change the group name for each Site by entering a new group name in the Move To text field available when
you select a Site.
Note You can type a name of a group that does not yet exists and the group will be created automatically.
By hitting the Search button you can enter a keyword and filter the list of Sites in the current page. The search happens as soon as you enter at least 3 charcters in the search box. Every character you enter after that will filter the list automatically.
To sort sites alphabetically, first switch to the un-grouped view and then select the sort button to arrange sites A to Z or Z to A.
When in List Mode you will see the sorting menu appear in the top right bar. With this menyu you can sort the list of Sites by Name, by Group and by Creation Date (in Ascending and Descending order).
You can make a Site public (i.e accessible by anonymous users) and feature the Site in the welcome page (if enabled).
To make a Site public select a Site and hit the Share button.
Users can also embed a TruView within a page using the script provided. Set the desired width and height of the viewing window and select whether to show or hide the tools bar and Minimap features.
Note Public Site will appear in the Welcome page of your TruView Enterprise site only if your administrator has enabled this feature.
You can change a Site title and description. The description is important when you share the Site to the public as it may appears on the Welcome page.
To edit a Site title and descrioption select a Site and hit the Edit button.
Delete a Site will remove all the Setups from the TruView Enterprise database along with all the associated data such as Markup, measurements and uploaded files.
Warning!
Deleting a file cannot be undone. Once the Site is deleted all its data are lost and cannot be recovered.
A better way to make a Site invisible to users is to create a Portal with access to a Administrators only and to move a Site to the new Portal.
You can switch the Site list to display SiteMap thumbnails of each Site project. Your choice will be remembered by the browser, so next time you enter the Site list the last view mode will be reused.
After selecting a Site in the table you can enter a Group name to move the Site into an existing or new Group. After entering the Group name use the "Move to" button finish the action. See image below.
You can left and and drag Sites into another group to move the Site.
Public Sites are Sites that have been "made public" such that they will allow users to visit with no login. These special no login visitors are called "Anonymous" users. These users are restricted in several ways.
Public Sites are also accessible by Login Users and Administrator Users. They remain listed in the All Sites listing in their respective Groups.
To set a Site as a Public Site, activate the Site editing tools and select the Public/Private icon. To make a Site Private, which is currently Public, activate the Site editing tools and you will see the icon has changed to show the Site is Public. Simply select the icon and it will make the Site Private.
After making a Site Private, the links to that Site will no longer be active and no-one can access the Site via those previously available links.
When you make a Site Public, you are asked to confirm your action and given the opportunity to change the description text as shown in this dialog box.
When a Site has been made Public, the Site Icon next to the name changes to indicate the Public status.
To edit the name and description of a Site, select the Edit Site icon after enabling the editing tools for the Site.
After selecting the Edit Site icon you will see the following dialog box where you can change the Site name and the description.
In the SiteMap page the user can access all the elements contained the Site. To view all the objects of a given type (Setups, GeoTags, Markups and Snapshots) click on the associated tab.
This is the entry page for the Site. It contains the SiteMap(s) and Setups available in the Site. If multiple SiteMaps are present, navigate to the appropriate SiteMap by clicking in the viewing window or selecting from the dropdown menu in the top right of the viewing window. To enter a particular Setup just click on the associated hotspot represented by a yellow Setup triangle.
The Setups tab will show all the Setups contained in the Site. Click on any of the Setup links to enter the TruView for that Setup. There is also an information icon to the right of each Setup showing information about the Setup.
GeoTags located in Setups in the Site are located in this area. You can sort by Name, category, Label and Type. Also there is a column named Visible From and indicates how many Setups can see the GeoTag (Note: GeoTags created in TruView will only be visible form the position in which they were created. GeoTags published from Cyclone and Cyclone REGISTER 360 will be visible between setups). You can click on a GeoTag link to open a TruView pointed to the GeoTag.
This tab shows a list of all of the Snapshots and Markups located in the Site. You can sort this list by Name, Setup and Author. You can also select a detailed or compact view. Both views list all Markup(s) and show a link that will open a TruView pointing to the Markup(s).
This tab shows the list of additional files associated with a the current Site project.
In here you can:
Files showing in this list can be downloaded to your PC or mobile device by just clicking on their links.
For images the browsers will open a new tab and display the images in the browser. You can download them using the mouse right click and select 'download' from the menu.
The file list is sortable by file name, creation date (the time when the file was uploaded) and size.
To sort the list just click on the header titles in the list. One click will sort the list in ascending order and one more click will reverse the sort order.
You can filter the list of files by entering a keyword in the search box available by clicking on the search button on the top right of the list.
The search functionality works as soon as you enter 3 characters, and it will select all the files that match the entered keyword in their name, or in the uploader username.
There are two way to upload a new file into a Site project:
you can click on the upload button on the top of the list (and select the files to upload from a browse window)
or you can drag and drop one or more file directly from your computer file browser to the file list.
This tab shows important metadata for the Site including the position and GUID identifier for each Setup.
Q: What is LOD?
A: LOD is the Level of Detail being displayed. It is proportional to the maximum point error. Zooming in or out changes the LOD that is displayed.
Q: What is the default transparency?
A: The initial system default transparency is 87%.
Q: How do I change the units for a Distance Markup Object?
A: Click on the Distance Markup Object. Then choose your new units from the Unit drop-down menu.
Q. My 3D Markup is not very accurate (repeatable), even though the precision is high. Why?
A. The 3D Markup can not be very accurate unless the view is really zoomed in. Zoom in as much as possible.
Q. How can I measure from a point in front of me to a point behind me?
A. Pick the first point in front, then pan to the back and choose the second point.
August, 2018
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