Bentley Pointools

Project File Management

• Stores current project settings, layers, saved views, tool states, and animation setup
• Auto-save

Interface and Navigation

• Dockable menus
• Object Tree manager
• Navigation modes: zoom, pan, free, examine, explore, and light direction
• 3D Connexion mouse support
• Walk mode navigation using arrow keys

General Visualization

• Display settings: frame rate, overall and object bounding box, axis, grid, refresh methods, and camera transition
• Environment settings: backdrop types and lighting
• Stereo anaglyph, interlaced or generic quad-buffered display
• Saved Views manager

Point-cloud Visualization

• Cloud and layer shading
• RGB (color) and intensity shading: intensity contrast and brightness control, and point lighting with material quality control
• Plane shading: distance, offset, axis, fit to data, and edge
• Dynamic LOD control
• Clipbox (to isolate area of interest)

3D Model Visualization

• Shaders: cel-shaded, outline (pen-line like effect), and lighting
• 3D model display: render as points if needed, lighting, texturing, cel-shade, outline, double-sided, cull back face, and Z-order transparency

Drawing Visualization

• Anti-aliased display
• Per layer visibility control

Notes

• Attachment of documents, images, movies, and other multimedia content to geographic locations
• Notes management in folders
• Display styles: color, box style, font type, style, and size
• Display options: depth cue, show full note, show coordinates, collapse notes with distance, and position on viewport edge
• Hyperlink support: Internet URL, file, saved views, animation frame, play animation, and run script Point-cloud Differencing and Clash Detection
• Static and dynamic clash detection between objects
• Detailed in-viewport clash region display
• Point-cloud differencing

Point Editing

• 2D point selection: rectangle, polygon fence, and plane
• 3D point selection: cube brush, sphere brush, and point cloud from point
• Selection operations: select all, deselect all, and invert
• Selection constraints: by color, intensity, and grayscale
• Point visibility operations: hide selected, unhide all, and invert visibility
• Support for up to 128 point layers
• Layer operations: add, remove, hide, show, switch layer mode (single or multi-layer), apply random layer colors, reset, setup LAS layer, point cloud per layer, layers from classification, layers from selected classification, and move points to layer
• Layer manager
• RGB painting: direct application via brush tools and layer-wide operations via layer filter
• RGB color selector: current color, extract color from viewport, swatch (colors storing), color selector (based on hue, saturation, luminance), color channel slider, transparency, and nine blending modes
• Color application using sphere or cuboid brush
• Active layer filters: erase paint operations, fill points, reset RGB editing, brightness/contrast, hue/ saturation, and white balance
• Stack-based editing (stores point-related operations and previous editing operations can be applied to other data)

Object Manipulation

• Two in-viewport rotating and movement modes: Axis Arrow and Rotate rings
• Local or world transform mode (keep object’s own coordinate system or apply model coordinate system)
• Pick tool (click any object from viewport to select it)
  Large object reference

Measurement Tools

• Point measure (single point position)
• Distance measure (point-to-point distance)
• Measure log options: save to delimited ASCII file, clear, display settings (color, coordinate and distance units, and precision), and tag (code applied to next measurement)

Rendering Snapshots

• Size options: image dimension and scale, output file size, and calculate print size
• Selection of area of interest
• Info options (for orthographic projection): minor and major ruler markings, or as grid, scale text, datum line, title, camera position and direction, and add logo or image
• Output options: anti-aliasing level and file format (TIFF, JPG, EPIX)

Stereoscopic Viewing

• Viewing via anaglyph glasses, auto-stereoscopic screens, or any quad-buffer-based stereo device
• Display options: depth control and amount (of depth effect), and swap left/right cameras

Animations and Movies

• Animation wizard (fly-through, orbit)
• Timeline user interface, with animation controller/parameters and keying mode
• Panning and zooming of the timeline
• Undo/redo timeline operations
• Animation options: scale animation and camera path import/export
• Animation of 3D objects, camera, clip box, light, and settings
• Object and camera transformation parenting
• Object and camera motion scripting
• Graph editor: fine-tuning of keyframe position, key value editing, and interpolation methods (stepped, linear, Catmull-Rom spline, and TCB spline)
• Control of timeline settings
• Image sequence, AVI, or MOV movie output
• Stereo left and right output
• Tiled output