Cyclone Technical Specifications

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  • Enabled if licenced copy of CloudWorx is installed on the same machine

+ Requires Cyclone WORKFLOW licence

Registration, Visualisation, Modeling & Query Tools

Cyclone FIELD 360

Cyclone REGISTER 360 PLUS (BLK Edition)

Cyclone REGISTER 360 PLUS

Cyclone MODEL

Large project support

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Optimised for Tablets

SUPPORTED

Touch navigation, Pan, Zoom

SUPPORTED

Project and Setup Explorer

SUPPORTED

Scan control

SUPPORTED

Complete loop closure registration

SUPPORTED

Optimised for smartphones

SUPPORTED

3D navigation, Pan, Zoom, Rotate

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

3D mouse support

SUPPORTED

Quick Move

SUPPORTED

Panoramic view mode (points)

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Panoramic view mode (image)

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Align to surface view mode

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Quick orthographic orientation

SUPPORTED

Cloud Level of Detail for fast visualisation

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Model Level of Detail for fast visualisation

SUPPORTED

Decimation of point clouds

SUPPORTED

Selectable levels of point cloud density

SUPPORTED

Quickly show/hide point clouds

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

HDR imagery viewing

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Toggle Visibility

Setups

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Setup labels

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Links

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

GeoTags

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Control labels

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Point Cloud Colour Map Viewing Options

Intensity mapping

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Greyscale

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Image colour mapping

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Infrared

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Elevation based colour mapping

SUPPORTED

Colour clouds per setup

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Colour clouds per bundle

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Gradient Background

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Manually map external digital photo to point clouds (Texture cube map, not pano)

SUPPORTED

Create Multi-image from cube-mapped images

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Multi-image blending

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Texture map colours onto point clouds

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Limit Box for efficient viewing and interaction of selected regions

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Limit Box Manager to organise multiple limit boxes

SUPPORTED

QuickSlice

SUPPORTED

Colour clouds by setup

SUPPORTED

TruSlicer

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Slice along X,Y and Z axis

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Colour clouds by setup

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Set Limit Box by fence

SUPPORTED

Cutplane manager and tools

SUPPORTED

Auto Bundle (grouping) of scans

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Visualise bundle's Link network

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

View multiple setups and bundles in same view

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Global registration of multiple scans

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Geo-Referencing/Control

Applied control

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Geometric matching of control to bundle

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Option to override Applied Control with DAC

SUPPORTED

Cloud-to-Cloud registration

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Optional prioritisation of target-based registration over Cloud-to-Cloud reg- istration

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Classification-enhanced Cloud-to-Cloud Registration

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Auto Align Scans

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Smart Align for Auto Align

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Visual Alignment including tilted scans

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Bundle/Group Visual Alignment

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Automatic orientation for Visual Alignment

SUPPORTED

Automated registration using Black & White targets

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Automated registration using sphere targets

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Automated registration across Sitemaps

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Automatic registration from RTC360 VIS data

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Loop closure of BLK2GO data

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Merge projects

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Editing target labels/names

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

View scanner locations

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Live Scanner location tracking

SUPPORTED

Unify point clouds

SUPPORTED

Basic conceptual design & 2D drawing tools

SUPPORTED

Insertion of modelled objects/geometry

SUPPORTED

Replication and editing of modelled objects

SUPPORTED

Planar Patch Editing

Make Square or Rectangular

SUPPORTED

Create/Fill Hole

SUPPORTED

User-defined quality-of-fit checks

SUPPORTED

Region Growing

Plane

SUPPORTED

Cylinder

SUPPORTED

Sphere

SUPPORTED

Smooth surface to segment extraneous data

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Automated Pipe Run with elbows

SUPPORTED

Virtual Surveyor™ to assign survey feature codes to points

SUPPORTED

Mesh

Creation (basic, complex, TIN)

SUPPORTED

Intelligent decimation

SUPPORTED

Decimation based on user-specified grid spacing

SUPPORTED

Polyline and breakline support

SUPPORTED

Delete and add faces

SUPPORTED

Fill in holes

SUPPORTED

Generate contours from meshes

SUPPORTED

Scan Cleaning

Single scan cleaning

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Bundle cleaning

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Cross-SiteMap cleaning

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Support for double scan cleaning

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Detect Moved Objects filtering

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Smooth surface cleaning

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Surface Deviation

Cut/fill contours

SUPPORTED

Table output on user-specified grid

SUPPORTED

Points on user-specified grid

SUPPORTED

Generate Cross-Sections through Point Clouds along an alignment

Alignment/Station Manager

SUPPORTED

Create Lines at Station

SUPPORTED

Create COGO Points, Breaklines & Cross Section Lines

SUPPORTED

Create profiles, plans and sections

SUPPORTED

Import LandXML Alignment

SUPPORTED

Create, Save, @ Load Station templates

SUPPORTED

Secondary Plan View window

SUPPORTED

Ortho Image extraction

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

User-defined QA parameters mapped to link and bundle errors

Color-coded

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Optimised with graphics for colour-blind users

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Station Notation display relative to an alignment

SUPPORTED

Fit edge template for curve extraction (e.g. curbs, flowlines)

SUPPORTED

Measure & Dimension Point Clouds & Models

Simple/Advanced measurement options

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Slope distance

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

∆X, ∆Y, ∆Z distances

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Geometric Object Volume

SUPPORTED

Area (rectangle)

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Area (polygon)

SUPPORTED

Horizontal and Vertical Clearances

SUPPORTED

Angle measurement

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Angle to Horizontal

SUPPORTED

Angle to Vertical

SUPPORTED

Back angle

SUPPORTED

Cut/fill volume

SUPPORTED

Piping takeoff query

SUPPORTED

Automated visual interference checking

SUPPORTED

Visualise Cyclone FIELD 360 measurements

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Fit cylinders, structural steel from catalogues

SUPPORTED

Insert piping components from catalogues (reducer, elbow, branch, flange, valve)

SUPPORTED

Piping Mode to add insulation thickness, Line ID, specification, Symbol Key (SKEY)

SUPPORTED

Set object creation parameters

SUPPORTED

Create and manage object annotation

SUPPORTED

Output feature codes and annotated vertices, spheres, to ASCII

SUPPORTED

Generate 2D drawings from 3D models

SUPPORTED

3D redlining

SUPPORTED

Scanner simulation

SUPPORTED

UCS Tools

Multiple coordinate system support

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Create UCS from walls

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Create UCS from room corner

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Set XYZ coordinate from pick point

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Assign colours & materials to objects

SUPPORTED

Layers

Create Layers

SUPPORTED

Manage Layers

SUPPORTED

Save/restore viewpoints

SUPPORTED

Object Grouping

SUPPORTED

Geometry Types that can be created:

HDS spherical targets

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Black/White targets

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Patch (plane)

SUPPORTED

Extruded patch

SUPPORTED

Box

SUPPORTED

Corner

SUPPORTED

Steel shape(e.g. I-beam)

SUPPORTED

Cylinder

SUPPORTED

Sphere

SUPPORTED

Vertex

SUPPORTED

Line

SUPPORTED

Elbow, Reducing Elbow

SUPPORTED

Cone

SUPPORTED

Torus

SUPPORTED

Reducer (Eccentric, Concentric)

SUPPORTED

Flange (Blind, Weld-Neck)

SUPPORTED

Pipe Tee

SUPPORTED

Valve

SUPPORTED

Polyline, Polygon

SUPPORTED

Rectangle, Square

SUPPORTED

Arc, Circle

SUPPORTED

Ellipse

SUPPORTED

Cubic spline

SUPPORTED

Point-of-view camera

SUPPORTED

Point-of-view camera (Height)

SUPPORTED

Pointed (Ballistic) cone

SUPPORTED

Environmental lighting

SUPPORTED

Create fly-throughs and output sequence of image files or .AVI (Audio Video Interleave) file

SUPPORTED

Elevation check

SUPPORTED

Pipe Modelling user interface

SUPPORTED

Auto Black & White Target Extraction

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Estimate normals

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Scripting

SUPPORTED

Undo/Redo Operations within Review & Optimise

SiteMap creation

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Optimisation

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Create/edit targets

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Create/edit GeoTags

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Create/edit Assets

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Delete Setups

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Create/delete/modify links

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

TruSpace/KeyPlan/SiteMap

Model Library

SUPPORTED

Automatic Pipe Finder

SUPPORTED

Auto Generate Patches

SUPPORTED

ModelSpace inventory

SUPPORTED

GeoTagging

In-field GeoTagging

SUPPORTED

Create GeoTags

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Target Tagging

SUPPORTED

Floor Flatness/Floor Levelness

SUPPORTED

Registration Reporting

Customisable Registration Report

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Basic Registration Report

SUPPORTED

Open\View KeyPlan

SUPPORTED

Create SiteMap

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Create Map from OpenStreetMap’s Slippy map (satellite or streetmap view)

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

GPS locate Setups on satellite map

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Create Hyper links in SiteMaps

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Edit Hyperlinks in SiteMaps

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Create KeyPlan

SUPPORTED

Edit KeyPlan

SUPPORTED

Open TruSpace

SUPPORTED

Extract targets in TruSpace

SUPPORTED

Measurements in TruSpace

SUPPORTED

View Multi-Image in TruSpace

SUPPORTED

Change Colour Mapping (RGB, Intensity, Greyscale, Infrared, shaded surface lighting)

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Temperature readout within infrared view

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Open ModelSpace view from TruSpace

SUPPORTED

Publish TruView from KeyPlan

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED *

Sync view- TruSpace to ModelSpace

SUPPORTED

Quick Limit box from TruSpace to ModelSpace

SUPPORTED

Load Points within Fence

SUPPORTED

Produce Floor Plans and Models

SUPPORTED

Data Import

Save Import Settings

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

ASCII (XYZ, SVY, PTS, PTX (feet and meters), TXT, Customised format)

PTX Only

SUPPORTED

Control file in TXT format

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Control file in CSV format

SUPPORTED

PTZ, PTG, PTB

PTG Only

SUPPORTED

Cyclone Object Exchange (COE) format (from AutoCAD, MicroStation, via COE Data Transfer)

SUPPORTED

ZFS, ZFC, ZFPRJ

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

BMP, TIFF, JPG, PNG

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Batch Import and Auto-Align Images (supports iSTAR, Nodal Ninja, Spheron)

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Batch re-import of edited Panoramic images +

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

LandXML

SUPPORTED

SIMA

SUPPORTED

FARO: fls, fws, frp

SUPPORTED

RIEGL: rsp, 3dd

LAS (feet and metres)

SUPPORTED

RCP

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Import select setups from E57, PTX and PTG (when contained in file)

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Cyclone REGISTER 360 PLUS archive file (RAF)

SUPPORTED

Import Cyclone REGISTER 360 PLUS registration versions

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Import Cyclone REGISTER 360 PLUS (BLK Edition) archive file (RAF)

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Import Cyclone REGISTER 360 PLUS project

SUPPORTED

Import project data collected on ScanStation C10

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Import project data collected on ScanStation P15/P16/P20/P30/P40/P50

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Real-time data streaming from ScanStation P30/P40/P50

Import project data collected on Pegasus scanners

SUPPORTED

Import project data collected on Pegasus: Two Ultimate

SUPPORTED

Direct WiFi import of project data collected on BLK360

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Import project data collected on BLK360 imaging laser scanner including Cyclone FIELD 360 links, assets and GeoTags

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Import project data collected on RTC360 and P-series scanners including Cyclone FIELD 360 links, assets and GeoTags

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Adaptive image resolution for RTC360 imports with Low and Medium resolu- tion images

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Import preview data collected on RTC360

SUPPORTED

Import project data collected on BLK2GO handheld imaging laser scanner

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Filter BLK2GO data upon import

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

E57

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

DotProduct: dp

SUPPORTED

HeXML

SUPPORTED

Import *.blk data from BLK360 Data Manager

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

LGS (Leica Geosystems Universal Project File)

blk lgs only

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

LGSx (Leica Geosystems Universal Project File post December 2023)

BLK LGSx only

SUPPORTED

Batch import of B2G via command line interface

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Import scans without images

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Import .cmi data from BLK3D

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Filter points by range

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Command Line Interface Importing of RTC360 and BLK360 data stored locally

SUPPORTED

Data Export

Publish a sub-selection of setups

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Publish contents of a LimitBox

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

AutoCAD DXF R12

SUPPORTED

Cyclone Object Exchange (COE) format (to AutoCAD, MicroStation via COE Data Transfer)

SUPPORTED

ASCII (XYZ, SVY, PTS, PTX, TXT, Customised format)

PTX/PTS

PTX/PTS

SUPPORTED

PTX as separate Setups (feet and metres)

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

PTG

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

BMP, TIFF, JPEG, PNG

SUPPORTED

RCP (unified and separate setups)

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

LAS (feet and metres)+

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Ortho Image, GeoTIFF, TWF (World File)

SUPPORTED

Pano Export

Batch Export of Panoramic images (JPG)

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Batch Export of Panoramic images (EXR)+

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SDNF 3.0 (Intergraph Steel Detailing Neutral File)

SUPPORTED

PCF (Alias Piping Component File)

SUPPORTED

Leica System 1200

SUPPORTED

LandXML

SUPPORTED

Cyclone II TOPO CWF & PCI

SUPPORTED

CloudWorx-VR ALP*

SUPPORTED

E57 Publish Options

E57 unified

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

E57 separate Setups

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

E57 with WayPoints and Images

BLK Kinematic Data

BLK Kinematic Data

Setup sub-selection

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

LimitBox contents

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Compatibility mode for third-party software

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

HDR imagery

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Cyclone REGISTER 360 PLUS archive file (RAF)

SUPPORTED

Imagery Publishing Features

Publish with/without imagery

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Publish HDR imagery

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Publish LDR optionally

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Cyclone REGISTER 360 PLUS (BLK Edition) archive file (RAF)

SUPPORTED

LGS (Leica Geosystems Universal project file) including Password-protected

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

LGSx (Leica Geosystems Universal project file post December 2023) including Password-protected

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SEMA

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Automatic file conversion to 2023.1 data architecture

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

TruView Local dataset

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

CVR

SUPPORTED

Publish to TruView Cloud

¨

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Publish to JetStream Enterprise

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Batch export LGS via command line interface

2023.0.2 and earlier

2023.0.2 AND EARLIER

Batch export LGSx via command line interface

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Batch export RAF archive file via command line interface

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Publish to Cyclone ENTERPRISE

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Decimate point clouds upon publish

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Save screen image as image file

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

Auto-blur faces and licence plates+

SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED

IFC

SUPPORTED

DXF

SUPPORTED

Other General Cyclone Features

Metric units of measure

Imperial units of measure

64-bit large number support

64-bit graphics support

Continuous auto-save

Multi-threading to take advantage of multiple processors

Hierarchical project layout

Project Explorer (Cyclone REGISTER 360 PLUS)

Online help

Adjust Capture Settings of BLK360

Scan Density (High, Medium, Low)

Image Quality (HDR or LDR)

Image Exposure (EV-5 to +5)

Adjust Capture Settings of P-Series scanners

Scan Density (12.5mm, 10.0mm, 8.0mm, 6.25mm, 4.0mm, 3.125mm@10m)

Range filter

Delete scans from BLK360

Check Battery level of BLK360

Check internal storage availability of BLK360

Check Serial Number of BLK360

Check Firmware Version of BLK360

Set time on BLK360 internal clock

In-app notifications of licences nearing expiration

Workstation Specifications

Minimum specification (Desktop Modules)

Processor Dual core processor running at 2.5GHz

RAM Minimum 8 GB or more for 64-bit OS

Operating System Windows® 10 (64 bit), excluding Bootcamp for MacOS

Graphics Support for OpenGL 3.3 or higher with 1GB video memory

Hard Disk At least 1GB of free disk space required for install

Recommended Specification for Workstation (Desktop Modules)

Processor Latest i9 quad core 10th generation at 3.5GHz or higher

RAM 64 GB

Operating System Windows® 10 (64 bit), excluding Bootcamp for MacOS

Graphics Nividia Quadro, Nvidia GeForce or AMD Radeon. 8 GB dedicated video memory

Hard Disk Internal SSD drives. One for writing and one for reading.

Note:

Recommended Specification for Workstation (Classification)

RAM 4GB Video RAM or better

Graphics Card Ampere NVIDIA, Volta or Turing, Any RTX, GeForce GTX 1650 or better

GPU 7.0 or better

Recommended Specification for Workstation (Tablet Modules)

Processor Intel Core i5 2.4 GHz or higher

RAM 16 GB or higher Operating System Windows® 10 (64 bit), excluding Bootcamp for MacOS

Graphics Intel HD graphics 520 or higher

Hard Disk Internal SSD drive

Port Ethernet port or Ethernet adapter