Select the section of cloud that you want to work with.

IP-S2 Data in ScanMaster

Draw or Import your alignment.

Draw or Import your polyline

Right-click – Extract your sections

Extract Sections from the Polyline

Set your extraction settings for your data

Set your extraction settings

Sit back and enjoy – too easy!

5 metre sections for a 350m stretch of data

Think about what this means when it comes to Complex Meshing…….

Complex Meshing Not Required

Following the auto-registration using target geometry constraints (~15 seconds after import), I got to work.

First select regions of pointcloud and fit planes.

Multiple planes fitted to parts of the pointcloud

Then select the planes and use the Intersect command

Use the Intersect command

Then sit back and admire your handywork – Easy eh?

Fitted Planes and extracted polylines

I was so inspired I read this incredible article by Dominique Lapierre in the Holland Herold – it’s a fascinating article by itself – but as a sales tool I think it has value – let me know what you think…..

Get the full pdf version from here:Expect the Unexpected

So 100 days of continuous occupation of a statue’s plinth by 2400 real people has ended. It has changed my life and that of many others. No fewer than 2,400 people from as far afield as the Shetland Islands and Penzance have occupied the plinth for sixty minutes each, picked at random from nearly 35,000 who applied.

Who can be represented in art? How can we make it? How can we experience it? These are questions that have exercised me for years. Whether you see the plinth as a protest or pole-dance platform; studio or stocks; playpen or pulpit; as a frame for interrogation or for meditation, it has provided an open space of possibility for many to test their sense of self and how they might communicate this to a wider world.

Antony Gormley, October 2009

See Andrew Evans from Topcon on the plinth:

Archived video from Sky Arts – Sunday 4th October – 2300 – 0000

Watch the edited highlights here:

Check out the latest offering on Youtube.

It shows some of the functionality of the IS in a very expressive video.

See the Geotop version in the Downloads section of this site.

A short but informative overview highlighting the key features of what is proving to be a quality piece of scanning hardware.

Navigate to the Download section on this blog to see some detailed facade, a tower and cliff scans.

Enjoy!

There are some new methods for setting up scans, that are really neat.

Check out the latest version of the IS on board software coupled with ImageMaster to see what you can do. (contact your local Topcon Dealer to arrange access)

The Trial and Viewer versions are now running at version 2.00 and the links from the download page have been edited to reflect that.

Terradat are an authorised Topcon Dealer specialising in the ImageMaster software.