----------------------------------------------------------------------- ContextCapture Update 17 - v10.17.0------------------------------------------------------------------------ Speed up of reconstruction (20% speed gain).- Upload/Download point clouds as PWCS ScanCollection.- Aerotriangulation: use positioning metadata during matching to improve robustness.- Aerotriangulation: improved robustness for RIG setups.- Aerotriangulation: improved handling of disconnected components.- JobQueue revamp: improved job queue performance (now based on a database).- Block 3D view/touchup UI measurement tools update/improved UX.
----------------------------------------------------------------------- ContextCapture Update 16 - v10.16.0------------------------------------------------------------------------ New integrated mesh touchup tools.- New alternate AT engine available as Preset.- New "Complete Incremental" AT workflow available as Preset.- New 3D mesh production format "OpenCities Planner".- New Block Export to Orbit 3DSM.- New function to merge tiled orthophotos and DSM.- Quality Control UI now available in ContextCapture edition.- New Reference Manager: Enabling cloud synchronization of Image Collections and updated reference manager UI.- New matching pair selection mode "Focus on ROI": Optimized reconstruction setting for vertical structure captured following orbit path.- Quality control: light UI improvements (model choice from toolbar) + added point cloud display.- Updated Cesium 3DTiles format/Bentley 3D Tiles now produced with 3SM production.- Updated ContextCapture Console to update 8.- New Aerotriangulation quality metric Uncertainty vectors on Tie Points.- SRS Data improvement (template, GTX copy when importing, etc.).- Export block UI improvement.- Upload on PWCS improvement: added location metadata.- Fixed camera database saving issue for focal length in pixels.- Fixed Photo position import issue in case on leading space.- Reconstruction/Production: Fixed issue when sorting table items by processing time.- Fixed malformed resource paths in KML for orthophoto KML SuperOverlay production.- Fixed SDK initialization issues.- Fixed item sorting issue in Survey report dialog.- Discontinued compatibility with S3M and BIN project files.- Improved memory consumption during reconstruction.- Speed up of both reconstruction and AT.- Updated internal software components.
ContextCapture Master CONNECT Edition V4.4 Update 6
----------------------------------------------------------------------- ContextCapture Update 2 - v4.2------------------------------------------------------------------------ Export of 3D mesh with texture and level-of detail to ESRI i3s scene database to stream 3D mesh to ESRI mobile, web and desktop clients.- Reconstruction improvement (robustness to repetitive pattern).- New supported formats in the tool to Export unique LOD mesh from a 3D reconstruction composed of several tiles.- Fixed LOD threshold issue for 3MX/OSGB/S3C production with target SRS based on feet unit.- Fixed camera DB update issue.- Updated limitations for ContextCapture edition: up to 100 gigapixels per block.
----------------------------------------------------------------------- ContextCapture - v4.0------------------------------------------------------------------------ New packaging of existing editions with updated features and capabilities.- New license system based on Bentley SELECTServer.- New image viewer, with the ability to display the original image when cached one is of lesser quality.- Image masks are displayed.- Fixed TIFF images > 2GB.- New merge blocks command.- AT measurement/orientation priors based on user tie point.- Improved aerotriangulation (improved robustness, new pair selection modes, new photogroup estimation modes).- New control points/tie points features (2D/Z control points, tolerance, check points).- New control points / user tie points / automatic tie points interface.- Improved aerotriangulation report.- Surface constraints: improved multiselection management.- Surface constraint: abitily to import OBJ meshes in any spatial reference system.- Touchups can now be managed in any spatial reference system.- A tile covered by some surface constraint is now reconstructed even if photogrammetry fails everywhere (e.g. water areas with not tie point at all).- New reconstruction planar simplification mode.- Improved texturing (improved UV mapping, image blending, inpainting).- Improved production and level-of-detail processing, new productions options (overlap, skirts, maximum texture size), speed and memory usage improvements.- New point cloud output format: POD.- New mesh export format: GoogleEarth KML.- New orthophoto output format: KML super-overlay.- New webGL viewer Acute3D Web Viewer and new 3MX format.- New production 3D view tab.- New measurement tools, including surface and volume measurement.
----------------------------------------------------------------------- Smart3DCapture v3.2------------------------------------------------------------------------ AT: improved performance.- Block export: new option for exporting photos without lens distortion.- Surface constraints: ability to import several KML files at once.- Control points: ability to import 3D positions from a TXT file.- Improved error feedback.- AT: higher success rate.- Reconstruction: improved performance.- Hardware requirements: an NVIDIA GPU is no longer required.- Software update notification and automatic camera database update.- Photogroups: new command to import/export camera optical properties.- Sensor size/focal length are now optional, aerotriangulation uses a 35 mm equivalent focal length of 50 mm by default.- Updated spatial reference system database (fixed EGM96 grid, added IGN69 grid)- Advanced/Expert editions: tie points and control points are now supported for block import/export; position and rotation can now be fixed during aerotriangulation.- Improved LOD tree export geometry accuracy and performance.- Improved UI: multiselection management on treeview.- New reconstruction option to disable color equalization.- New production formats: Autodesk FBX, StereoLithography STL, Collada DAE.- Smart3DCapture Settings: new option "Reactivate license automatically" allow to disable automatic license reactivation from the internet.- Orthophoto: Color source is now set by default to Reference 3D model texture.- Fixed missing nodes problem on productions with LOD.- 3D reconstruction interface : new interactive edition of the region of interest.- New user tie points editor.- New pair selection modes for aerotriangulation: sequence and loop, simplify the processing for some datasets.- New SDK including a Python module, allowing to access all features of Smart3DCapture Master.
----------------------------------------------------------------------- Smart3DCapture v3.0------------------------------------------------------------------------ New packaging of existing editions with updated features and capabilities.- New edition Smart3DCapture Advanced.- New type of production Orthophoto/DSM: Produce interoperable raster layers for visualization and analysis in third-party GIS/CAD software or image processing tools.- New inter-tile color equalization function, to limit color differences between tiles.- Texture mapping improvements: among all the available candidates, the model is textured with the sharpest image.- New geometry precision mode Ultra, to perform 3D reconstructions with stunning geometric details.- New geometry precision mode Medium, faster and more memory-efficient reconstruction mode (recommended for orthophoto and DSM).- New reference manager interface to check project resources, and repair or update links.- New System information tab in Smart3DCapure Settings to ease identification of system issues and technical support.- Updated project file format, and job file format: faster and more scalable.- Import blocks now supports MS Excel XLSX format.- S3C format change (caution: compatibility with previous Viewer versions is broken).- Block photos/photogroups table now enable sorting.- Fixed issue when deleting photos from the block 3D view.- Fixed XLS import compatibility issue.- Updated production definition and production item UI.- Improved error feedback (missing photo during AT, missing SRS grid, etc.).- Updated Engine specialization types: AT, TileProduction and RasterProduction (Caution: previous type Reconstruction is not supported anymore).- Updated camera database. 2ff7e9595c