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Scan to Steel

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This workflow allows extraction of structural steel elements from a point cloud.

Requirements

Select a point cloud and launch the workflow.

The workflow is divided in 3 steps:

  1. Level Definition: to manually define the different levels where steel elements will be extracted from.

  2. Steel Extraction: to manually extract and edit steel elements from the point cloud.

  3. Export: to export extracted steel elements.

Steel standards

Common Steel standards are shipped with Cyclone 3DR.

The default steel standards are:

Profile

Standard name

I-Beam

T-Beam

Corner

Channel

Tube

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Russia

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Standard location: C:\Users\Public\Leica Geosystems\Cyclone 3DR\ScanToSteel\Standards\Default

Technical Information

Point cloud source

Scan to Steel is compatible with any point source, including native 3DR point clouds, LGSx files, and Hexagon GeoCloud assets.

In other words, no data conversion is required to run the workflow when working with streamed point clouds.

The user experience may vary slightly depending on the point source, while preserving the same overall workflow and capabilities.

Feature

3DR Native format

LGSx

Hexagon GeoCloud

Classification

Points can be filtered by class for display and extraction purpose.

Yes

No
(require conversion)

No
(require conversion)

Scanning direction

The element extraction is optimized using scanning direction if available (TLS).

Yes

No
(require conversion)

Yes

Connectivity

Dependency to an Internet connection

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No

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(A correct Internet bandwidth ensures an optimal experience)

Memory footprint (RAM)

Impact on the available RAM memory

High
(points are loaded in memory)

Low
(points are streamed)

Low
(points are streamed)

Point clouds streamed from Register 360 PLUS require a conversion to a native Cyclone 3DR point cloud to be compatible with the Scan to Steel workflow.

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