ContextCapture is now iTwin Capture Modeler. The changelog for all new releases can be found here
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ContextCapture 2023 (March 2023)
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Versions : 23.00.00.1317 - English
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ContextCapture Update 20.1 - Hotfix 1 (March 2023)
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Versions : 10.20.1.5592 - English
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ContextCapture Update 20.1 (Nov 2022)
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Versions : 10.20.1.5562 - English
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Additional information on these improvements can be found on this thread.
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ContextCapture Update 20 (Oct 2022)
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Versions : 10.20.00.4169 - English
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ContextCapture Update 20 (Sept 2022)
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Versions : 10.20.00.4145 - English
10.20.00.4126 - Japanese Langage Pack
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ContextCapture Update 20 (July 2022)
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Versions : 10.20.00.4117 - English
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ContextCapture Update 19.1
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Versions : 10.19.01.45 - English
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ContextCapture Update 19
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Versions : 10.19.0.122 - English
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ContextCapture Update 18 - HOTFIX 1
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Versions : 10.18.0.270 - English (update recommended)
10.18.0.236 - Japanese language pack
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ContextCapture Update 18
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Versions : 10.18.0.232 - English
10.18.0.236 - Japanese language pack
Release date: May 10th, 2021
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ContextCapture Update 17 - v10.17.0
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- 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.
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ContextCapture Update 16 - v10.16.0
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- 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.
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ContextCapture Update 15 Hotfix 1 - v10.15.0
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- Reduction of memory linkage at reconstruction stage causing processing crashes.
- Custom spatial reference systems fully supported.
- Water constraints handled in new orthophoto pipeline.
- Optimization of grey in-painting.
- GPU-driver bug impacting NVidia devices solved.
- Infinite mesh processing issue solved.
- FBX library update.
- 24-bits masks supported.
- Specific block-export for TREND-ONE.
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ContextCapture Update 15 - v10.15.0
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- New orthophoto workflow based on dedicated reconstruction type, including new texturation algorithm enhancing visual quality.
- New aerotriangulation positioning mode management with enhanced control for adjustment and rigid registration steps.
- Revamped block 3D view with new user interface and tools, including lock on photo, quality metrics, tie point edition, full resolution photo display, grid display, etc.
- New water constraint productions to automate surface constraint generation (Technlology preview)
- Import block from ProjectWise ContextShare
- SDK extended to ContextCapture edition.
- Merge point clouds command to create unique LAS or POD files.
- Compact tags now supported for automatic control point registration.
- Quadtree across tile production optimization and bug fixes.
- Next generation aerotriangulation algorithm available as preset.
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ContextCapture Update 14 - v4.4.14
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- ContextCapture Cloud Processing Console included in the installer.
- New function 'Process on the cloud' to continue project processing on the cloud.
- New processing time information for productions.
- New Share dialog to manage publication to ProjectWise ContextShare.
- New formats supported for sharing on ProjectWise ContextShare: OBJ, LAS/LAZ, FBX, POD, Orthophoto/DSM, DGN, ESRI SLPK.
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ContextCapture Update 13 - v4.4.13
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- Scan import now supports scans with unknown source position (auto detection of source position), and POD format.
- New types of tags supported for target autodetection: Chili Tags and April Tags.
- New quality metrics in block 3D view (camera and survey points colorization according to error, distance to input position).
- Improved performance and robustness of multipass aerotriangulation (now by default).
- Support of unicode path for input photos.
- Updated coordinate system database (HS2 NTv2, OSTN15, etc.).
- Survey points report: horizontal errors now detailed for X and Y.
- Color equalization: improved performances and bug fixes.
- Surface constraint import: support of DGN polygons and various improvement (SRS choice, etc).
- Reconstruction: image sharpness considered for texturing.
- Improvements on the overall software robustness/stability.
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ContextCapture Update 12 - v4.4.12
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- Splats: new textured 3D representation of tiepoints; available in a block after aerotriangulation.
- New compressed block exchange format XMLZ
- Added support for mobile scan format NavVis PLY.
- Support of local coordinate system with known unit (for the entire production workflow from scale constraint, control points, etc.)
- Photo Navigation (Technology preview), a new block 3D view mode.
- Improved aerotriangulation and reconstruction speed and memory.
- Aerotriangulation optimization: Distribution of a portion of the computations over multiple engines.
- Aerotriangulation optimization: Caching of intermediate information that speeds up consecutive aerotriangulations.
- Aerotriangulation optimization: Reduced memory footprint when using point clouds.
- Optimization of various stages of mesh reconstruction, both in speed and memory.
- Improvement of reconstruction quality on self-repeating patterns or low-signal areas.
- Improved mesh export computation speed.
- Added heartbeat and self-healing mechanism to handle deficient workers in job monitoring.
- Optimized UI for better refresh of job-related information on large productions.
- Added backface culling button in 3D views.
- Support of a project SRSData directory that makes the definition of coordinate system extensions easier.
- Engine: Grouped tasks in categories for easier engine options definition
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ContextCapture Update 11 - v4.4.11
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- New licensing system based on Bentley CONNECT licensing.
- Upgraded internal component Bentley Powerplatform.
- Survey user interface bug fixes and improvements.
- Improved aerotriangulation robustness and speed: fixed some issues on performance and result.
- Reconstruction of hybrid projects (photos + point clouds): fixed spurious surfaces issue, fixed performance issue when using small world units.
- Reconstruction constraints: fixed holes issue appearing in the middle of surfaces created from constraints.
- Measurements: fixed issues on scenes using foot unit.
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ContextCapture Update 10 - v4.4.10
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- Hybrid registration photos/point clouds: new aerotriangulation positioning modes to register photos using point clouds
- New Surveys user interface with enhanced ergonomics and user assistance.
- Multi-scale constraints
- Coverage map (Quality report)
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ContextCapture Update 9 - v4.4.9
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- Production clipping based on region of interest
- New MasterKernel SDK packaging with python wheel
- Improved quality report/acquisition report (side views, distance to input positions, uncertainty ellipses, color flags, expandable sections...)
- New reconstruction setting: texture source priority
- New production option: texture sharpening
- Surveys: new import wizard, added support of Propeller format
- Surveys: ability to change SRS of a control point without reprojecting its coordinates
- Region of interest import from DGN format
- Point cloud import is now cancelable
- New block type "Orbit"
- New web application ContextCapture Web Viewer 2.0 for Cesium productions
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ContextCapture Update 8 - v4.4.8
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- Photo multiselection in the block’s 3D view (shift/ctrl keys, rectangle, by tie point)
- Faster Aerotriangulation and reconstruction
- Survey points multiselection (for deletion/edition)
- New camera orientation option for block XML export
- Enhanced aerotriangulation report
- Extended/improved LOD production across tiles: now supports any kind of tiling (3D, adaptive tree, etc.)
- New reconstruction settings to use only point clouds for geometry
- Surveys data import/export including control and user tie points with measurements and positioning constraints
- Measurements in US survey feet (new unit system settings)
- [beta] New Aerotriangulation preset dedicated to fine structures (eg. telecom towers, pylons)
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ContextCapture Update 7 - v4.4.7
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- Aerotriangulation improvements: optimization (15-20% faster), improved rig mode
- Control Point QR codes can now be provided without coordinates
- Vulkan/multi GPU: no more need of Vulkan SDK for AMD GPU
- New extract block feature based on position
- Photos tab: ability to define/clear mask after adding photo
- Improved management of common errors cases
- Unit system option to allow measurements in imperial units
- Blockwise color equalization is now default mode
- Blocks exchange format now integrates blockwise color equalization data
- Fixed font issues in Master on 4K screens
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ContextCapture Update 6 - v4.4.6
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- New texture mode: input data resolution
- New viewer measurement tool: input data resolution
- New camera and photogroup parameter: band (visible or thermal)
- New texture mode: thermal imagery
- New viewer measurement tool: temperature
- Vulkan API option: enable using several GPUs
- Add support of rigs of camera (Master, AT, I/O and SDK)
- New report: Acquisition report (intermediate and final)
- New job/task framework
- Extracting keypoints during AT is now distributed among the Engines
- New blockwise color equalization
- Placing QRCode targets in the captured scene will automatically generate control points, user tie points and positioning constraints
- 3D export of user tie points in XML and KML
- Support of point clouds in blocksExchange format
- Ability to associate a CONNECT project
- Upload to projectwise contextshare
- New image input format: Jpeg 2000
- New point cloud inputs: static scans with manually given origin
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ContextCapture Update 5 - v4.4.5 (hotfix 2)
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- Fixed rare infinite loop in 3MX productions.
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ContextCapture Update 5 - v4.4.5 (hotfix)
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- Fixed issue when exporting LAS/LAZ file with unit sampling.
- Add support for LAZ mobile point clouds.
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ContextCapture Update 5 - v4.4.5
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- Support for mobile point clouds (LAS, E57).
- New point cloud output format: LAZ.
- Fixed small issues in LAS/LAZ export: colors are now coded in 16-bits and scale is correctly estimated.
- New level-of-detail mode to create a quadtree across all tiles of a reconstruction instead of an independent LOD tree for each tile.
- New production format: Bentley Scalable Mesh (3SM), for optimal display, analysis and editing in Bentley design applications.
- New tool to convert existing ContextCapture 3MX format to Bentley Scalable Mesh (3SM) format.
- ExportUniqueMesh now integrated into the user interface as a new LOD mode "Quad tree across tiles".
- ExportUniqueMesh now works for non-georeferenced datasets.
- Support Yaw/Pitch/Roll rotation format (import.export)
- Support of EXIF yaw/pich/roll metadata.
- Enhanced support of pose metadata, formerly navigation data (UI, I/O, computation).
- New production format Bentley DGN.
- Bentley DGN format is now fully supported for touchup workflow and reconstruction constraints.
- Integration of Bentley CONNECT Advisor to get personalized support and learning recommendations.
- New pose metadata management, which improves the block preparation workflow.
- New project tool "Free up disk space".
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ContextCapture Update 4 - v4.4 (hotfix)
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- Fixed point cloud processing issue in Trial mode
- Fixed memory use display when changing geometric precision
- Fixed minor WebGL Viewer issues
- Fixed thread concurrency issue on reconstruction processing
- Updated license client
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ContextCapture Update 4 - v4.4
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- 3D reconstruction from point clouds (imported from PTX or E57 files).
- Control point and tie points now managed in an unique tab Survey points.
- UI enhancements for very large projects (reduced memory footprint, reduced latency for common operations).
- Texturing improvement with mobile objects.
- Fixed issue with reference manager Define location.
- Fixed crash when calling reference manager on very large projects.
- Fixed crash when calling quality control on very large projects.
- Fixed crash when calling quality control with productions using custom SRS definitions.
- Measurement: metric conversions are now also available for productions in US survey foot.
- New command to group photogroups.
- AT and reconstruction presets now manage all user settings.
- New suggestion of a list of presets for AT settings.
- Aerotriangulation optimization: key points extraction is now 30% faster.
- Improved management of aerotriangulation positioning mode Use photo positioning data for adjustment.
- SDK: added missing API for skew/aspect ratio estimation policies.
- Fixed crash when using old version of CONNECTION client.
- Export ESRI I3S: new archive compression option for Scene package creation (Store or Deflate), now also uses SLPK file extension.
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ContextCapture Update 3 - v4.3
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- Integration of authentication with Bentley CONNECTION client.
- Major Aerotriangulation optimization: now 2 times faster.
- New Aerotriangulation settings: new positioning mode to use position data for adjustment.
- Added aspect ratio and skew parameters to perspective camera model.
- Updated BlocksExchange format: added tie points color, additional photo data (depth, exifData, component), additional block data (viewingDistance), and positioning constraints.
- Added basemap feature in the 3D views of block and reconstruction. It allows the addition of background 3D terrains from Bentley GeoCoordination Services data or from local geospatial data.
- Reconstruction: new processing setting - 'resolution limit' - used to clamp the maximal resolution.
- Reconstruction: smart region of interest, that focuses on the area with significant resolution; maximal bounds still available as an option when resetting bounds.
- Reconstruction: new tiling mode - 'Adaptive tiling' - that adaptively subdivides the reconstruction into boxes to meet a target RAM usage.
- Reconstruction: correction of memory usage estimation during mesh texturing, reduced memory footprint -30%.
- Export of 3D mesh with texture and level-of-detail to Cesium 3D Tiles format.
- Fixed various issues in MasterKernel SDK, enhanced API: access to orthophoto/DSM options, touchup import, splitblock srs and origin properties, tiling default origin, masterItem remove, masterItem gesDescription.
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ContextCapture Update 2 - v4.2
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- 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.
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ContextCapture Update 1 - v4.1 (hotfix)
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- SDK: Fixed issue with function addPhotoInAutoMode.
- Fixed aerotriangulation issue when tangential distortion was non zero and estimation policy of camera positions set to compute.
- Fixed UI localization issues.
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ContextCapture Update 1 - v4.1
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- Fisheye camera support.
- New camera database (camera model, user database, user interface).
- New user interface to import positions/rotations from text files.
- Video frame import.
- Aerotriangulation algorithm improvement (frustum, new input data min/max viewing distance, block type nadir).
- Texturing improvement (texturing per sub-triangle).
- New command line tool to export a unique LOD mesh from a 3D reconstruction composed of several tiles.
- Acute3D Web Viewer version 1.1, with improved loading speed
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ContextCapture - v4.0.1 (hotfix)
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- When control points were defined but not used, AT was sometimes reported as having failed.
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ContextCapture - v4.0
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- 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.
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Smart3DCapture v3.2 hotfix 5
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- Fixed GPU memory estimation issue with GTX970
- LOD tree export format: fixed height issue when producing with a SRS using a geoid grid, removed erroneous SRSOrigin in metadata.
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Smart3DCapture v3.2 hotfix 4
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- Fixed colored spots on some textured models
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Smart3DCapture v3.2 hotfix 3
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- Fixed production return message for empty tiles when keeping them
- Fixed texture colorimetry on evaluation version
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Smart3DCapture v3.2 hotfix 2
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- Fixed AT failure in some cases when using small photos.
- Fixed issue with texture paths in DAE files with some TEMP directory definitions, concerns LOD tree export and Collada format.
- Fixed non-optimal pair selection for reconstruction with some spatial reference systems with significant rotation from WGS84 referential.
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Smart3DCapture v3.2 hotfix 1
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- Fixed reconstruction failure happening in some cases when tiles are void.
- Reference manager: fixed issue when modifying slash and antislash characters.
- Reconstruction: fixed warning consistency issue.
- Improved behaviour with long project paths.
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Smart3DCapture v3.2
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- 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.
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Smart3DCapture v3.1 - hotfix 1/2
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- Fixed reconstruction for VisionMap A3D cameras
- Fixed AT Report when GCP are used for rigid registration
- Fixed AT when GCP are used and no initial AT is known
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Smart3DCapture v3.1
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- New photo downsampling feature.
- New aerotriangulation "Multi-pass" algorithm.
- New aerotriangulation options: keypoints density control Normal/High, component construction mode One-pass/Multi-pass, estimation groups Per photogroup/Per photo.
- Speed-up of reconstruction of very large photos.
- Repaired position/rotation Keep estimation mode.
- Fixed job status update issue after renaming items in project tree view.
- New license system.
- New user interface component workflow wizard.
- New Publish to Sketchfab function for single tile OBJ productions.
- Fixed a bug that caused an Error code 6 message with some graphic cards.
- Fixed several minor bugs.
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Smart3DCapture v3.0 - hotfix 1
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- Fixed an issue in reconstruction that might produce holes or distorted textures in some tiles, especially with VisionMap A3 camera.
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Smart3DCapture v3.0
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- 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.
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Smart3DCapture v2.2 - hotfix 2
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- Fixed a bug that caused premature termination of LOD reconstruction for some touched-up models
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Smart3DCapture v2.2 - hotfix 1
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- Fixed bug in reconstruction spatial framework 3D view when changing ENU spatial reference system.
- Fixed aerotriangulation for imported blocks of type "Aerial".
- Fixed navigation issue in the quality control interface with Ctrl and Shift keys.
- Fixed WindowsXP compatibility issue.
- Fixed a bug that caused premature termination of some LOD reconstruction.
- Updated camera database.
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Smart3DCapture v2.2
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- New reconstruction constraints feature: user-defined priors can now be incorporated in the 3D reconstruction process to correctly handle challenging cases such as water surfaces, glass facades, uniform walls,
- Improved texturing algorithm: new automatic color compensation algorithm to produce textures with good color homogeneity, even under varying exposure.
- New quality control tool: integrated 3D view to inspect and tag tiles of the reference 3D model, in order to plan and monitor large-scale production processes.
- New output format: SpacEyes3D Builder layer.
- New 3D interface for tile selection.
- Block import/export improvement: more export options (choice of spatial reference system and rotation format), new supported tags in XML and XLS formats.
- Updated XML import sample file, with more detailed comments and real data of the Paris 2012 dataset.
- Added document describing Smart3DCapture camera model.
- UI improvements and optimization for reconstructions with a large number of tiles.
- Reconstruction reference 3D model: new option to reset texture only.
- Fixed import bug when using measurements in mm for control points and tie points.
- Fixed bug with Cartesian control points coordinates.
- New production option: 100% quality JPEG.
- Production option "Keep untextured regions" is now enabled by default.
- Improved aerotriangulation for imported blocks of type "Aerial".
- Fixed bug with ungroup photogroups function: component, sensor focal length and sensor size are now kept.
- S3C scene optimization (SceneComposer): allows to display very large datasets with Smart3DCapture Viewer.
- Updated camera database.
- Fixed several minor bugs.
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Smart3DCapture v2.1.2 - hotfix 1
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- Smart3DCapture SceneComposer: fixed rounding error impacting Smart3DCapture Viewer coordinate measurement accuracy.
- Fixed submission issue with LODTree export format when using a custom production SRS.
- Updated camera database.
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Smart3DCapture v2.1.2
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- Drastic (3x-8x) reduction of the disk space occupied by temporary files.
- Aerotriangulation can now link several components thanks to control points.
- New hole-filling processing option.
- Tiles selection in production: new Invert selection button.
- Tiling option to not discard empty tiles.
- Tiling processing optimization.
- Fixed Master crash if the job queue is not defined.
- Updated camera database.
- Fixed several minor bugs.
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Smart3DCapture v2.1.1
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- Reduced memory requirements of aerotriangulation of large blocks.
- Fixed bug in control points editing, regarding automatic image selection.
- Tiles selection in production: fixed issue when sorting tiles.
- SceneComposer: new settings for maximum navigation height and maximum oblique viewing angle.
- Fixed problem with KML import ROI/tile selection (support of 2D KML and KML with multigeometries, editable ROI minZ/maxZ).
- Fixed production problem for reconstructions using SRS with vertical datum shift grid.
- Fixed several minor bugs.
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Smart3DCapture v2.1.0
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- New web publishing feature: Smart3DCapture customers can now host 3D models in S3C format on a standard web server, for remote navigation with Smart3DCapture free Viewer.
- Ability to produce dense point clouds with color in LAS format.
- Choice of output spatial reference system now supported for all production formats.
- New spatial reference system selector with integrated database.
- Improved node weight balancing for LOD formats and new node size option.
- New types of LOD: simple levels, quadtree, octree, and Bing Maps.
- Import blocks now supports MS Excel format.
- Ability to export block to the same BlocksExchange format used for import (old AT export format is still available).
- New Exif GPS tags altitude reference management (use sea level reference by default rather than WGS84 ellipsoid).
- Central tiles are now processed in priority during production.
- Improved block interface (new columns, new warnings, edition/removal from 3D view, SRS choice for pose display).
- Improved dialog for checking image files integrity (new option to check the entire image file, new function to remove invalid photos).
- Improved retouching dialog, retouching levels are now managed in two distinct areas.
- Fixed problems with SRS definition including quotes.
- SceneComposer: new tile selection functions (allowing to work with Viewer tile selection tool), removed obsolete altitude reference option.
- Fixed a bug in LOD generation causing holes in coarse LOD levels, in the presence of very large triangles, e.g. created during retouching or generated by mesh simplification in flat regions.
- Fixed several minor bugs.
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Smart3DCapture v2.0.7
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- Fixed a compatibility issue between NVIDIA optimus and 4th generation Intel Core i7 processors under Windows 7.
- Fixed issue on AT result when the AT cannot handle entire photogroups.
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Smart3DCapture v2.0.6
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- Drastic (3x-8x) reduction of the disk space occupied by project files.
- Fixed some occasional black stains on texture.
- Fixed problem to save the project with some specific make/model Exif tags.
- Ability to acquire control points in any SRS
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Smart3DCapture v2.0.5
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- Fixed issue with automatic selection mode activation in the control point interface.
- Fixed a graphics driver out-of-memory error happening with a particular image size (~100 Mpixels for a GPU with 1GB of dedicated memory).
- Updated camera database.
- Fixed problem with control points names in blocks import.
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Smart3DCapture v2.0.4
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- Now includes Smart3DCapture User manual in an assistant and in PDF format.
- 3D reconstruction: fixed a bug related to the reconstruction algorithm introduced in v1.9.3.
- Reference 3D model: reset clears now any existing cache (force reconstruction to restart from scratch).
- Reference 3D model: internal tile texture is now displayed in Smart3DCapture Viewer.
- Support of image mask for aerotriangulation and reconstruction.
- Photogroup creation now ignores image dimensions in the Exif tag.
- Fixed several minor bugs.
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Smart3DCapture v2.0.3
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- BlocksExchange files: ability to specify lens distortion coefficients of a photogroup.
- Block type display in block dashboard.
- Fixed several minor bugs.
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Smart3DCapture v2.0.2
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- Ability to disable image preview (to be used for huge photos located on a network share).
- Ability to ungroup a photogroup (to be used when photos where taken by a camera rig or continuously zooming/unzooming)
- BlocksExchange files: ability to specify the base path of photos.
- BlocksExchange files: ability to specify tie points positions.
- BlocksExchange files: ability to import control points without any image measurement.
- New request tool for missing camera sensor in the database.
- Fixed a bug happening when entering control points without any image measurement.
- Fixed several minor bugs.
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Smart3DCapture v2.0.1
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- Fixed a bug happening when migrating a project from Smart3DCapture v1 with some photos having EXIF tags for 35mm-equivalent focal length.
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Smart3DCapture v2.0.0
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- Completely new graphical user interface with a project tree, editable property sheets for the different project objects, photo thumbnails, interactive 3D visualization, intuitive process monitoring, and more.
- New "Block" concept gathering a set of photos, their metadata and their interior/exterior orientation typically estimated by aerotriangulation. A project now contains several blocks, either corresponding to a same set of photos with different versions of their associated information, or to different sets of photos of a same scene.
- Drastic speed-up of aerotriangulation of large blocks.
- Aerotriangulation is now processed by the Engine, which keeps the Master available at all times.
- New aerotriangulation report including statistics on tie point extraction & matching, bundle adjustment and positioning.
- Ability to split a very large imported aerial block in several parts or to extract a sub-block from it before aerotriangulation, for an even better scalability.
- Ability to configure the estimation policy of the different block parameters during aerotriangulation: depending on the context, tie points, focal length, principal point and lens distortion can be computed from scratch, adjusted or kept constant.
- Ability to define the region-of-interest and tiling of a reconstruction in any spatial reference system.
- Ability to apply retouches in a third-party software on both geometry and texture before final production.
- Instantaneous submission of 3D production, so that the user interface is constantly responsive.
- Improved 3D reconstruction quality: reduced noise.
- Smart3DCapture Scanner Edition now has a more flexible limitation: up to 10 gigapixels per block.
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Smart3DCapture v1.9.5
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- Project import: bug fixes.
- Multi-engine computation: stability improvements.
- Latest version before v2.
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Smart3DCapture v1.9.4
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- Project import:
- Pose replaces Navigation and AT.
- Measurements in images may also be in millimeters.
- Ability to specify camera plane orientation.
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Smart3DCapture v1.9.3
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- Improved 3D reconstruction performance: fewer holes, fewer geometric and topological artefacts, more faithful mesh simplification, reduced memory use.
- Added ability to automatically split a large aerial imagery block to several blocks of manageable size.
- More robust grid computing system to reliably handle large clusters.
- Fixed several bugs happening when importing some projects from XML.
- Added support to photographs in Panasonic raw format.
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Smart3DCapture v1.9.2
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- Fixed a bug when adding advanced options with S3CSceneComposer.
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Smart3DCapture v1.9.1
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- Fixed a bug that prevented the opening of some XML import files.
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Smart3DCapture v1.9.0
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- New output format: Collada files + LOD tree.
- Submission: production of a sub list of all the tiles.
- Submission: production of all the touch-up candidates at once.
- Touch-up: when producing a touch-up candidate, exporting its bounding box in a OBJ file.
- Touch-up: import and submission of several touched-up models at once
- S3CControlPoints: thumbnails and very large photos are cached.
- Mapper and Surveyor editions: project import from an XML file, containing navigation and/or an initial AT.
- Mapper and Surveyor editions: in S3CControlPoints, if navigation is known, automatic selection of photos viewing a given control point.
- Adding image dimensions to the XML export of an AT.
- Fixed a bug that froze GPU on some configurations.
- Fixed a bug that caused premature termination of some LOD reconstruction.
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Smart3DCapture v1.8.7
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- Import of retouched OBJ files: improved compatibility with models produced by different softwares.
- New functionality: export of AT result into an XML file.
- New functionality: input images may contain masks.
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Smart3DCapture v1.8.6
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- Ability to display the list of photos successfully included in an AT.
- New debug mode for Smart3DCapture Engine to track GPU-related errors.
- Mapper Edition: improved robustness and speed of AT imports.
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Smart3DCapture v1.8.5
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- Fixed a bug in the Evaluation edition, when reconstructing an empty tile.
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Smart3DCapture v1.8.4
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- Less annoying watermarks in the Evaluation edition.
- Automatic switch to high-performance renderer on NVIDIA Optimus platform now works for older drivers.
- Fixed a bug when matching very large photos (>100 Mpixels), which caused holes and/or inaccuracies in the 3D model.
- Fixed a bug when importing a KML polygon to limit 3D production to an area-of-interest. It is no more needed to create the polygon inside a folder.
- Fixed a possible memory overflow during 3D reconstruction when the graphics card mistakenly produces infinite or NaN numbers.
- Improved discriminative power of key points used by AT.
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Smart3DCapture v1.8.3
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- Fixed a bug in licensing system under Windows XP.
- Reduced memory footprint when matching very large photos (e.g. Vexcel UltraCam XP).
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Smart3DCapture v1.8.2
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- Some metadata of the output 3D model are now saved to an xml file in the output directory.
- Fixed a bug in Smart3DCapture SceneComposer when the logo is modified.
- Fixed a bug happening when performing several reconstructions in different coordinate systems with a same AT.
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Smart3DCapture v1.8.0
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- 3D models can now be produced in OSGB, a native format of the open source OpenSceneGraph library (http://www.openscenegraph.org/).
- A new tool is now available: Smart3DCapture SceneComposer. It allows to edit a root S3C file by adding or removing tiles, editing the logo, tweaking default display settings, changing the reference altitude, and more. This tool advantageously replaces Smart3DCapture ChangeLogo.
- The "Layout" concept is renamed to the more explicit "Reconstruction" concept. Please note that, as in previous versions, after a Reconstruction is defined, it has to be submitted to Smart3DCapture Engine for its actual production.
- The different tiles of a 3D model are now gathered in a "Data" subdirectory, for easier browsing of output files, and notably an easier access to the root S3C file.
- Fixed a bug in the texturing of very coarse LOD. There are no more black artefacts when visualizing the 3D model from far away.
- Fixed problem for input photographs larger than the maximum texture size allowed by the graphics card.
- Automatic switch to high-performance renderer on NVIDIA Optimus platform.
- Fixed problem of Windows errors about GPU timeout.
- Tiles are now processed by increasing order of distance from the centroid of the input photographs. As a consequence, the area of higher interest is likely to be processed first.
- Moving obstacles are better handled during texturing.
- It is now possible to tweak the computation of aerotriangulations and 3D reconstructions for a specific application using preset files provided by Acute3D's support team.
- RAW photographs are better handled. Cameras were added to the built-in database. GPS tags can be automatically imported from XMP files.
- The number of fragments in texture atlases has been significantly reduced.
- We have fixed many other minor bugs.