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title: "Cyclone 3DR Technical Specifications"
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# Cyclone 3DR Technical Specifications

| Feature | Standard (Base) | Survey (Option) | AEC (Option) | Plant (Option) | Pro (Edition) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **POINT CLOUD PROCESSING** |
| Noise detection | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Clean/Separate clouds (Fencing or Smart Object Segmentation) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Separate with object | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Reduce | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Density homogenisation | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Segmentation (by distance, scan station, colour or by extradata) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Target extraction |  | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Detect moving objects | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Ground extractor filter |  | **SUPPORTED** |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Walls and floors filter |  | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** |
| Tunnel filter |  | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** |
| Automatic Classification |  | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** |
| Manual Classification (Fencing or Smart Object Segmentation) |  | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** |
| Explode by class / Class representation / Support of classification with LAS-LAZ, LGSx and e57 | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Points on grid (ground, lowest, highest) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| **CloudWorx** |
| Connect to Cyclone IMP, LGSx and Cyclone ENTERPRISE server | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Create UCS and align views | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Create and manage limit boxes, limit slices and limit planes | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Clone LGSx | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| **Hexagon GeoCloud** |
| Connect to GeoCloud | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| **COORDINATE SYSTEMS** |
| Local coordinate systems | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Translation, rotation, free move | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Best align N points | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Best fit | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| BIM Alignment |  |  | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** |
| **SURFACE MODELLING** |
| Scan to Mesh | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| 3D meshing | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Spherical meshing | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| 2D meshing | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Mesh refining: smoothing (including locally with brush), decimation, hole filling sharp, edges and bor- ders reconstruction, junctions, cut mesh, inspection steps, subdivide | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Mesh extrusion | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Mesh convex hull | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Meshing under constraints (with polylines) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Mesh segmentation | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Spikes detection | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Write on mesh | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| DSM and DTM creation |  | **SUPPORTED** |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Building extraction |  | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Clean / Separate Mesh (Size, Fencing or Smart Object Segmentation) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Mesh Extraction from BIM models | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Subdivide Mesh | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| **CONTROL/INSPECTION/ANALYSIS** |
| Angle, distance, geometry | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Distance to axis (polyline, alignment, trajectory) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Cubature/volume | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Geometric shape extraction | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| 3D inspection | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| 2D inspection | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| BIM inspection |  |  | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** |
| Reporting (CSV, PDF and 3DPDF) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Stastistics | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Stockpile Measurement |  | **SUPPORTED** |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Progress Monitoring / Export BCF |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Profile Extraction and Analysis for tunnels and roads (creation, inspection, volumes, unroll) |  | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Unfold point cloud |  | **SUPPORTED** |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Surface Analysis (levelness, flatness, slope) / Gridded Inspection |  | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| ASTM E1155 Floor Flatness / Floor Levelness |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Clash Analysis / Export BCF clashes |  |  | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** |
| Inspection Notes and Visual Notes/ Export BCF |  |  | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** |
| Tolerance Checking |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| **POLYLINES/SECTION/EXTRACT** |
| Sections (planar, radial, etc.) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Smoothing | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Decimation | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Chaining | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Neutral axis extraction | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Breakline extraction (single) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Planar contour extraction | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Contour lines |  | **SUPPORTED** |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Points on Grid | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Points on Grid (COGO Points Export) |  | **SUPPORTED** |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Virtual Surveyor |  | **SUPPORTED** |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Breakline extraction (multiple) |  | **SUPPORTED** |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Polyline edition (stretch, edit, resample, replace...) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Scan-to-Plan |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Scan-to-Pipe (Straight segments, elbows, reducers, branches, flanges) \| Catalogue fitting |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** |
| Scan-to-Steel (Beam, column) \| Catalogue fitting |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** |
| **IMAGE/TEXTURE MANAGEMENT** |
| Conversion between inspected or coloured mesh to textured mesh |  | **SUPPORTED** |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Automatic and manual mapping of pin hole, cube faces and spherical images |  | **SUPPORTED** |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Automatic and manual mapping of orthoimages |  | **SUPPORTED** |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Texture from clouds | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Camera calibration |  | **SUPPORTED** |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Creation of texture atlas |  | **SUPPORTED** |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Texture edition (adjust, explode, remove) |  | **SUPPORTED** |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Texture from material |  | **SUPPORTED** |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Smart Texture |  | **SUPPORTED** |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Orthoimage (including georeferencing information as word file) |  | **SUPPORTED** |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Edition of image masks |  | **SUPPORTED** |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| **REVERSE ENGINEERING** |
| IGES, STEP, COE and DXF import | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| REVIT, IFC, and DWG import |  |  | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** |
| CAD Surface creation |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Local or overall surface improvements |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Support of measuring arm with RDS |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| IFC Export (meshes) |  |  | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** |
| Reverse engineering workflow (creation and edition of networks, CAD surface generation based on networks, manage overlapped surface, export in IGES/ STEP) |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| IGES/STEP export (geometrical shapes and existing CAD model) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| **USER INTERFACE** |
| Orthographic and perspective view | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Multiview with synchronisation | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Tree explorer | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| AutoSaves | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Clipping box and plane | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Grid | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Shortcuts | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Send to/Send from AutoCAD | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Send to/Send from Hexagon MinePlan | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Send to/Send from Hexagon BricsCAD | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Import from Cyclone FIELD 360 | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Localisation: Chinese (simplified), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish. | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Cyclone camera | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Navigation through TLS and MMS scanner setups | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Scan trajectory import / export in LGSx (Dynamic scanners) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| GeoTags navigation and browsing (LGSx) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Basic Point selection tools (selection, vertex, nearest, middle, intersection, XYZ) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Advanced Point selection tools (target, highest, low- est) |  | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Survey Point selection tools (ground, white line) |  | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  |
| Objects display management | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Capture view | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Stereo Rendering | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| **TOUCH MODE WORKFLOWS** |
| BIM Inspection including connection to Cyclone FIELD 360 |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| **AUTOMATION** |
| Scripting | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| **ANIMATION** |
| Animation - Video | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| **RDS CONNECTION** |
| Online data capture and visualisation | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| **TANK MONITORING MODULE** |
| 3D inspection |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** |
| Roundness and verticality |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** |
| Settlements |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** |
| Export and reporting |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** |
| **POINT CLOUD IMPORT FORMATS** |
| Leica Geosystems (*.pts, *.ptx) and LGSx (*.lgsx) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Leica Nova MS50/60 (*.sdb, *.xml) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| ShapeGrabber (*.3pi) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| 3DReshaper binary file (*.nsd) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| AutoDesk DXF (*.dxf) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| STL (*.stl) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Polyworks (*.psl) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Leica T-Scan + Steinbichler (*.ac) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| LiDAR data (*.las; *.laz) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Other ASCII (*.*) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Zoller and Fröhlich (*.zfs) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| PLY points without triangles (*.ply) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| ESRI ASCII (raster format *.asc) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| FARO (*.fls - *.fws) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| POLYWORKS (*.psl) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| E57 (*.E57) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| LandXML files (*.xml) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| RDBX | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| **MESH IMPORT FORMATS** |
| STL format (*.stl) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Binary PBI format (*.pbi) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| DXF 3Dface format (*.dxf) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| ASCII POLY format (*.poly) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| OBJ format (*.obj) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| ASCII Leica format (*.msh) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| OFF files (*.off) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| PLY (*.ply) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| GLB files (*.glb, *.glft) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| **CONTOUR/SECTION IMPORT FORMATS** |
| IGES format | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| DXF polyline format | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Binary MLI format (*.mli) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Alignment (*.landXML) - Axis + Stations | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| **CAD MODEL IMPORT FORMATS** |
| IGES | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| STEP | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| DWG |  |  | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** |
| COE |  |  | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** |
| **BIM MODEL IMPORT FORMATS** |
| IFC |  |  | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** |
| RVT |  |  | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** |
| NWD |  |  | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** |
| **POINT CLOUD EXPORT FORMATS** |
| ASCII FILES (*.asc, *.csv) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Binary files (*.nsd) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Leica Geosystems (*.pts, *.ptx) and LGSx (*.lgsx) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| E57 (*.e57) including images | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| IGES (*.igs) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| LAS (*.las) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| LAZ (*.laz) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| AutoDesk DXF (*.dxf) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| LGSx (point cloud, UCS, limit box, trajectory) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| **MESH EXPORT FORMATS** |
| ASCII and binary STL format (*.stl) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Binary PBI format (*.pbi) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| DXf 3Dface format (*.dxf) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| ASCII POLY format (*.poly) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Vertices only (*.asc) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| DXF polyline (*.dxf) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| ASCII Leica format (*.msh) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| PLY (*.ply) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| LandXML (*.xml) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| OBJ format (*.obj) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| GLB files (*.glb) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| FBX files (*.fbx) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| **CONTOUR/SECTION EXPORT FORMATS** |
| IGES format | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| DXF polyline format | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Binary MLI format (*.mli) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| ASCII formats | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| **CAD/BIM MODEL EXPORT FORMATS** |
| IGES (geometrical shapes and existing CAD model) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| STEP (geometrical shapes and existing CAD model) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Image export format | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Orthoimage including georeferencing information as World file | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| IFC Piping models |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** | **SUPPORTED** |
| **PROJECT FILES - EXPORT** |
| RESHAPER (*.rsh) | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| DXF | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| PDF 3D | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| SKETCHFAB | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| **PUBLISHING FEATURES** |
| Publish Point Cloud to LGSx | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |
| Clone LGSx | **SUPPORTED** |  |  |  | **SUPPORTED** |

| Edition Components | Standard Edition | Survey Edition | AEC Edition | Plant Edition | Pro Edition |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Standard | **included** | **included** | **included** | **included** | **included** |
| Survey Option |  | **included** |  |  | **included** |
| AEC Option |  |  | **included** |  | **included** |
| Plant Option |  |  |  | **included** | **included** |

| Computer specifications | Minimum | Recommended Including for Automatic Classification | Recommended for Cyclone 3DR Touch Mode |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CPU | 2 GHz Dual Quad Core i7 or higher (i5 minimum) | 3.5 GHz Intel® Core™ i7 or higher | Microsoft Surface PRO Core i7 1.5 GHz |
| RAM for 64-bit OS | 16-32 Gb RAM | 64-256 Gb RAM | 16 Gb |
| Graphics Card | NVidia Quadro or GeForce 1 GB - with OpenGL support, versions 4.3 or higher | NVidia with GPU capabilities - [Compute capability:](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus) 5.0 or higher up to 9.0 - Minimum GPU memory: 4-8 GB (especially for meshes with more than 40 million triangles) |  |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows 10 (Build 1809), 11 (64 bits supported) |
| Hard Disk free space | 3 Gb | 20 Gb | 3 Gb |
| Other |  | CUDA® 11.8 Toolkit (from NVidia). **The 11.8 version of CUDA is mandatory for Auto-Classification.** |  |