Products - TerraScan
TerraScan 64-bit Release Notes
Date |
Version |
Changes |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-09-11 | 018.020 | Draw line boundaries menu command in Define Project for drawing polygons for area covered by each pass. |
| 2018-09-05 | 018.019 | Compute distance macro action supports computing distance from points to powerline wires. |
| 2018-07-04 | 018.018 | Parameter attribute added to user defined point file formats. Copy from reference supports copying Echo length and Parameter attributes. |
| 2018-06-21 | 018.017 | Fix in Create Point Group tool. Bug could cause a crash when Create using setting was set to Current group. |
| 2018-06-20 | 018.016 | Fix in Find Danger Objects when Report setting is set to By minimum interval. Bug could cause report to contain points unnecessarily close to each other and also to leave out a more critical point. |
| 2018-05-14 | 018.013 | Fix in Find Danger Objects. Bug caused non-danger points to be found in the first tower span. |
| 2018-05-09 | 018.012 | Fix in running Classify / By vegetation index on loaded points with three channels of color information. Fix in Find Danger Objects. Bug could cause some tower intervals to be ignored in the search. |
| 2018-04-16 | 018.011 | Display fixes. |
| 2018-04-04 | 018.010 | Faster display speed. Speed improvement in assigning groups. |
| 2018-03-28 | 018.009 | Fix in Split at laser gaps when running using loaded points. Speed improvement in Compute normal vectors. Speed improvement in Classify / Surface points. Speed improvement in smoothing xyz. |
| 2018-03-20 | 018.008 | Sorting by Line and time, Line, scanner and time and Xy location added to pulldown menu and to macro action. Classification of groups by vegetation index. Classify / Wire danger points considers points before first tower string vertex and points past last tower string vertex as potential danger points if they are close enough to wires. |
| 2018-03-14 | 018.007 | Classify / Closeby points has options 2D above, 2D below, 3D above, 3D below Tolerance setting for intersection lines in Check Building Models and Draw Roof Lines. Evaluate expression macro action has been removed. This operation relied on a MicroStation capability which is not supported by 64 bit MicroStation. Display dynamics setting in display mode dialog for Shaded coloring mode. This setting controls whether shaded surface will display during dynamic view movement/rotation such as panning. Speed improvement in Classify / Surface points, Smoothen points with Xyz option and Compute normal vectors operations. Match Roof Elevation tool for modifying a roof plane equation so that selected vertices match elevations of neighbouring patches. |
| 2018-02-18 | 018.006 | Convert geoid model menu command support Norwegian geoid model file format (href2016b_nn2000_euref89.txt). scan display close keyin command for closing display mode dialog. view tower previous keyin command for moving to previous tower in View Tower Spans list. view tower next keyin command for moving to next tower in View Tower Spans list. |
| 2018-02-05 | 018.004 | Improvements in Fit to reference menu command. |
| 2018-01-29 | 018.003 | Dimension, Normal X, Normal Y and Normal Z field types added to user defined point file formats. You can now write out normal vector information calculated for points. Support for reading PTS file format. Faster reading of many text file formats. Fix in converting from Lambert projection system to another projection system in the southern hemisphere. |
| 2018-01-11 | 017.039 | Bug fix in saving points with color information inside fence only to a Fast Binary file. Draw Plane Section tool for creating a cross section view for a planar surface in the point cloud. |
| 2017-12-23 | 017.038 | Fix in powerline tower modification tools. |
| 2017-12-22 | 017.037 | Fix in powerline tower tools. |
| 2017-12-20 | 017.036 | Extrude Building tool has options for how to treat overlap between existing planar patches and new planar patches being added. Assign Plane Symmetry tool for forcing planar patches to have the same plane equation, to have the same base direction or to have the same slope angle. |
| 2017-12-01 | 017.035 | Fix footprint button in Check Building Models for fixing small mismatches between footprint polygon and roof model. |
| 2017-11-28 | 017.034 | Match setting in Synchronize Views works now with perspective views. Coloring by Image assignment fixed to work also when Use depth is off and points are displayed as points. |
| 2017-11-23 | 017.033 | Improvement in Check Building Models. |
| 2017-11-11 | 017.031 | Bug fix in deleting points. Version 017.030 messed up color values in operations which deleted points. Vegetation index coloring in display mode. This requires four channel color information and colors points using Normalized Difference Vegetation Index. By vegetation index classification routine for classifying points based on Normalized Difference Vegetation Index. |
| 2017-11-08 | 017.030 | Ability to extract upto 10 channels of color information from images and sotre into fast binary files. Ability to store 4 channel color information into LAS 1.4. Validate models menu command in Check Building Models for finding flaws in vector models. Enforce footprint as edges option in Check Building Models. This will clip roof polygons in vector model using footprint polygon. |
| 2017-10-13 | 017.029 | Fix in Find Poles tool. |
| 2017-10-13 | 017.028 | Check Building Models can display automatic cross section views of active building. Draw Roof Lines tool for drawing relevant roof lines of selected building models. Set All Edges has option set edges of a single patch. Modify Edge has new options Along closest line and To base 90 deg angle. Insert Edge Vertex has new option Base 90 deg angle. |
| 2017-10-05 | 017.027 | Point radius method added to Check Footprint Polygons tool. This gives another method in checking whether polygons are properly covered with point data. |
| 2017-09-21 | 017.026 | Improvements in Classify / Below surface. |
| 2017-09-20 | 017.025 | Classify / Below surface supports multiple source classes. Classify / Below surface has a new option to compare points against a locally fitted curved surface. Convert time stamps macro action can convert from UNIX time. |
| 2017-09-13 | 017.024 | Improvements in Find Poles tool. Label Clearance tool for labeling clearances of bridges or other features. Use Compute distance first to compute height above ground value for each point. Draw 2D polygons for areas to inspect. Label Clearance will find the smallest distance value of points inside each polygon, classify that point and place a label in the design file. Bug fix in Compute distance when comparing against design file elements. |
| 2017-09-05 | 017.022 | Ability to search tie lines as a macro step. |
| 2017-07-04 | 017.021 | Ability to set number of decimals in label with Measure Point Density tool and selected polygons. Bug fix in ground classification. Bug could cause a crash. |
| 2017-06-27 | 017.020 | Bug fix in saving LAS files. Bug could cause crash with certain VLR records. |
| 2017-06-26 | 017.019 | Compatibility with MicroStation Connect Edition update 5. Improvements in Find Pole Objects tool. Fix in class output in Find Danger Objects and Output report menu command. |
| 2017-06-05 | 017.018 | Find Pole Objects tool for finding, classifying and vectorizing poles matching example point clouds in object library. |
| 2017-05-22 | 017.017 | Group / Clear by class menu command and macro action for clearing group values from points in selected classes. |
| 2017-05-08 | 017.016 | Fix in reading Echo length field from user defined file format. |
| 2017-05-05 | 017.015 | Support for reading in GSF file format. |
| 2017-04-27 | 017.014 | Fix in Update Distance Coloring tool. Fix in scan angle value storage in Fast Binary files. Fix for macros with Find wires step. |
| 2017-04-20 | 017.013 | Slope coloring in Export raster images. This creates slope coloring based on normal vectors. |
| 2017-04-12 | 017.012 | Bug fix in applying Projection change transformations involving a correction model. Bug fix in Classify groups / By Distance macro action. The action did not classify groups correctly. |
| 2017-04-06 | 017.011 | Bug fix in Classify / By centerline using vectors from a given level. Bug fix in Vectorize Buildings. |
| 2017-03-27 | 017.010 | Bug fix in Cut overlap tool. |
| 2017-03-25 | 017.009 | Bug fix in Classify groups / By best match macro action. |
| 2017-03-22 | 017.008 | Import scanner positions menu command in Manage Trajectories for importing tripod mounted scanner positions from a space delimited text file with format: number easting northing elevation Fix in Project into sections menu command. None class selection added to Travel View. Mouse click determines viewer elevation. Open inside fence works faster. |
| 2016-03-13 | 017.007 | Thin points runs faster on very high density data sets. Fix in linking trajectories to LAS 1.4 files with separate wdp files. |
| 2017-03-07 | 017.006 | Faster export of Road intensity raster images. Bug fix in Cut turnarounds. Bug could result in a crash. Bug fix in Classify / Closeby points. Bug could cause a crash when run as a macro step. |
| 2017-02-27 | 017.005 | Compute normal vectors has an option for specifying towards what direction normal vectors should be turned. Choices are trajectory, center point and upwards. Classify / Groups / By centerline classification tool. |
| 2017-02-10 | 017.004 | Support for Color+intensity coloring mode in rendering. |
| 2017-02-02 | 017.003 | Wait for completion setting added to Execute command macro action. When this setting is on, TerraScan will wait until launched command has completed before running next macro step. Fix in displaying points when view has Clip front and Clip back settings off. Support for using Riegl Pulse width and Amplitude point attributes. Fast Binary, LAS 1.2, LAS 1.4, LAZ 1.2, LAZ 1.3 and LAZ 1.4 formats can store pulse width as Echo length and amplitude as Parameter. |
| 2017-01-13 | 016.034 | Improvements in Assign groups. |
| 2016-12-19 | 016.033 | Create Tree Cells tool for creating tree cells from grouped and classified tree hits. Modify Tree Cells tool for checking tree cells and modifying tree information. Output Tree Cells tool for writing out tree cell information. |
| 2016-11-30 | 016.032 | Draw polygons supports creating polygons for each group. Draw polygons as macro action. Ability to run on PowerDraft Connect Edition. |
| 2016-11-17 | 016.031 | Support for LAS 1.4 waveform data. |
| 2016-11-18 | 016.030 | Fix in LAS 1.3 support. Fix affects waveform use as well. |
| 2016-11-09 | 016.029 | Fix in importing points from a fast binary file into a project. Bug could cause some attributes not to be imported from a fast binary file containing attribute streams. Fix for dialog settings in macro action Classify / Closeby points. Support for SBTC/SBIC trajectory format. |
| 2016-10-28 | 016.028 | Quality improvements in automatic building vectorization. |
| 2016-10-27 | 016.027 | Fix in line number handling in Add Synthetic Point. Undo support in Merge Point Groups and Create Point Group. |
| 2016-10-20 | 016.026 | Bug fix in computing normal vectors. Bug could cause a crash. Move Forward and Move Backward keyin commands accept a new parameter: Move Forward stayactive 3 would move view 3 forward and stay active waiting for mouse click to move. |
| 2016-10-17 | 016.025 | Macro actions for classifying groups by best match, by class, by distance and by parameters. Improvements in Group / Test parameters. |
| 2016-10-07 | 016.024 | Settings tool and Point display category has settings for how non grouped points will be drawn in view windows when coloring by group. Faster Assign groups. Improvements in Groups / Classify / By best match. |
| 2016-09-27 | 016.023 | Faster snapping to points. Improvements in Assign groups. Groups / Classify / By class menu command for classifying groups by class. Bug fix in Travel Path. Bug could cause a crash. Faster Draw Vertical Section with big point count. Median Z option in thinning. Groups / Classify / By distance menu command for classifying groups by distance. Groups / Classify / By best match menu command for classifying groups to best matching target class. Support for OSTN15. Distance field added to user defined point file formats. |
| 2016-08-28 | 016.022 | Compute distance menu command and macro action for computing distance values for points. Classify / By distance menu command and macro action for classifying points based on distance values stored. Classify / Surface points menu command and macro action for classifying points matching a local smooth surface. Improved grouping of points in Assign groups. Group+intensity display mode. |
| 2016-07-27 | 016.021 | Improved display speed when placing or manipulating vectors on top of laser data. Thin points has two new methods: Grid 2d and Grid 3d. This perform thinning looking at a group of points inside one grid cell. Inside fence setting accepts multiple selected polygons. Note that this does not apply to TerraSlave. |
| 2016-07-13 | 016.020 | Bug fix in reading/writing echo numbers into LAZ files. Bug fix in Draw into profile menu command. |
| 2016-07-12 | 016.019 | Improvement in Find Wires. |
| 2016-06-27 | 016.018 | Fix in Export lattice model macro action when outputting Distance to point lattice. Support for reading in point record types 9 and 10 from LAS 1.4 files. |
| 2016-06-20 | 016.017 | Split at gaps menu command in Manage Trajectories can now use loaded points. Previously this tool always required an active project of points. Fit to view option in elevation coloring. This improves the visualization when zoomed in. |
| 2016-06-13 | 016.016 | New coloring mode Normal+intensity added. Bug fix in importing user defined text file formats into a project. |
| 2016-06-10 | 016.015 | Read reference points menu command for reading points to use as reference points. Fit to reference menu command for fitting a point cloud to match reference points. |
| 2016-05-13 | 016.013 | Fix in applying projection change transformation between two South African zones or between two Japanese zones. Faster shaded surface display. |
| 2016-05-11 | 016.012 | Fix in reading LAS 1.4 files. Version 016.011 did not recognize LAS 1.4 files. |
| 2016-05-10 | 016.011 | Bug fix in saving LAS 1.0 - 1.2 files. Bug caused all scan direction flags to become negative. |
| 2016-05-09 | 016.010 | Fix in manual entry of license information into dialog. |
| 2016-04-21 | 016.009 | Operation category in Settings has a new setting: Set AccuSnap off. This will switch AccuSnap off whenever you start TerraScan. Fix in Synchronize Views. In version 016.008 only Camera option was working. |
| 2016-04-19 | 016.008 | Camera option in Synchronize Views. This creates a camera view which always shows the same area as displayed by a source view. Bug fix in exporting Road intensity raster images. |
| 2016-04-11 | 016.007 | Multiply by setting added to Fix time macro action. Routine multiplies original time stamps with given value. Example use: convert millisecond time stamps to seconds. Mouse Point Adjustment can take keyin parameters. For example: Mouse Point Adjustment AdjZ=1/AdjXy=0/Point=Closest/Class=2/Within=0.5 |
| 2016-03-14 | 016.006 | Image number field type added to user point formats. Remove Details has an option to specify area limit in a text field. If no fence is active, Split Building tool will now wait for user to enter a line and will split building using that line. Fix in reading and writing LAS and LAZ files. |
| 2016-03-04 | 016.005 | Fixes in using LAS 1.4 as project storage format. |
| 2016-03-01 | 016.004 | Bug fix in handling macro files larger than 20KB. |
| 2016-02-26 | 016.003 | Set withheld bit option in Delete by class macro action. Set withheld bit option in Delete by line macro action. |
| 2016-02-17 | 016.002 | Multiple source classes in Place Catenary String. Utility / Merge small blocks menu command in project window for automatically merging small blocks with neighbouring blocks. Edit / Merge blocks menu command in project window for merging selected blocks into one. LAS 1.4 support. |
| 2015-12-18 | 015.033 | Fix in Classify Using Brush and starting undo while classification tool is still active. Fix in Classify / Below surface routine. Bug could cause the routine to stall if the number of source points was very small. |
| 2015-12-14 | 015.032 | Fix in undoing ground classification inside fence. Fix in Label Alignment Curvature with 0.1 accuracy labels. Classify / Inside shapes macro action renamed to Classify / By polygons. Routine can now classify points which are close to planar 3D polygons. Speed improvements in cutting overlap by offset. |
| 2015-12-10 | 015.031 | Fix in undoing ground classification inside fence. Fix in Label Alignment Curvature with 0.1 accuracy labels. Fix in Classify / Railroad class usage. Fix in Classify / Closeby points and fence usage. Fix in Classify / Inside shapes and filtering polygons by style. |
| 2015-12-01 | 015.030 | Ability to snap to point cloud points. Assign Point Class favors points closer to viewer. |
| 2015-11-13 | 015.028 | Closest hit z option added to exporting lattice model. This creates a lattice model where each grid cell has elevation value of closest source point. Fix in resizing display mode dialog. |
| 2015-11-10 | 015.027 | Fixes. |
| 2015-11-02 | 015.025 | Smoothen points tool can smoothen color values of laser points. |
| 2015-10-26 | 015.024 | Faster output of LAS files when applying a heavy coordinate transformation (such as writing out longitude/latitude). Fixes and speed improvements. |
| 2015-10-08 | 015.023 | User parameters added to Classify / Walls for specifying minimum wall area and classification tolerance (=offset from planar surface inside which to classify points). Ability to modify block folders, prefixes or file name extensions of multiple selected blocks using Edit menu command. |
| 2015-09-23 | 015.022 | Fixes, speed improvements and LAZ support. |
| 2015-09-14 | 015.021 | Fixes and speed improvements. |
| 2015-09-10 | 015.020 | Several fixes. |
| 2015-09-09 | 015.019 | Various fixes. |
| 2015-09-03 | 015.018 | Beta release. |
| 2015-05-04 | 015.008 | Built for MicroStation CONNECT Edition x64 EAP3. |
| 2015-03-25 | 015.007 | Update to match 32 bit version 015.007. |
| 2015-03-03 | 015.003 | Second beta-version release of TerraScan 64-bit software. License files for version 015 required. |
| 2015-01-27 | 014.901 | First beta-version release of TerraScan 64-bit software. |
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