Welcome to AVEVA Point Cloud Manager

AVEVA Point Cloud Manager is the most advanced solution available for accessing laser scan data and working with it directly in 3D CAD systems. It is simple to use and offers unrivaled performance and functionality.

There are many different 3D laser scanners and 3D CAD systems in use today. Point Cloud Manager has been developed to provide users with maximum freedom of choice of both scanning and design systems. It can read unstructured data from various scanner types; not only terrestrial laser scanners but also hand-held, mobile or aerial scanners.

It is designed to work with data from even the highest resolution scanner. Point Cloud Manager enables users to work with datasets of unlimited size and exploit photo-realistic, 360° BubbleViews™.

Point Cloud Manager also enables you to:

• Access and work with 3D laser scan data.

• Compile point cloud datasets of every scan on a project with InfiniteCore™ technology.

• Clash detect as-built data against a proposed design.

• Interface with CAD packages from Autodesk, AVEVA, Bentley, or Intergraph.

Server mode key features

• Import data from any laser scanner – export to all supported CAD packages

• Load an unlimited number of scans without compromise

• Clash detect proposed CAD design against the as-built environment

• Navigate inside the photorealistic BubbleView™ as if present on site

Gateway mode key features

• Automatic scan-to-scan registration

• Traffic-light metrics immediately display the quality of registration

• Inter-cloud registration enables accurate scan registration without the use of targets

• Target prediction algorithms enable automatic fitting of the remaining targets when one or two have been located in the scan data

Audience

The AVEVA Point Cloud Manager documentation is aimed at new users and covers the use of Point Cloud Manager in the Server and Gateway Modes, associated CAD links and production of Point Cloud Manager related resources, such as HyperBubble data, Solid Point Cloud data and AVEVA Point Cloud Manager - Viewer projects.

The contents cover operations for both Engineering Users and Project Administrators.

It is assumed that the user already has Point Cloud Manager installed and has the appropriate license features available.