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New Measure Pane: "Measurements are certainly key to projects in this field. The new Measure Pane is easy to use but also far more powerful. It is now a "rolling tape" style with all your measurements in one session shown. You can also copy and paste from this pane into your other applications. |
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Coded Target Improvements: For those customers with the Coded Target Add-on Module there are two welcome and oft-requested improvements. The first is the direct printing of coded targets to any Windows printer - no more intermediate Postscript file and no more need to buy a Postscript interpreter. The second, is the manual marking of coded targets. In the past Coded Targets were marked only by the automatic marking process. Now when clean up is being done, an individual target can be identified by simply surrounding it with the sub-pixel marker region. |
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Automatic processing: to get 3D data PhotoModeler needs to 'process' the photo markings and references - in PhotoModeler 5 you had to manually choose processing, more over you had to know when it was appropriate to do so for the first time. Now in PhotoModeler 6 processing occurs automatically and in the background! |
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Camera Database and automatic camera matching: store your calibrated cameras in a central database so you don't have to search for them on disk. Moreover if the images files from your camera contain EXIF data (which most do), when you load these images they will automatically match the camera in the database so no explicit camera loading is required. Makes starting up projects so much faster! |
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3D Viewer Feedback: three new features in the 3D Viewer assist with determining project quality and for explaining the results to project stakeholders. The two features that are useful for demonstration purposes are "Point Rays" and "Station Images". The first shows the light rays from one or more points to all the camera stations where it was marked (great for checking angles too) or conversely from one camera station to all its marked points. The second feature optionally replaces the camera station symbol with a geometrically correct image and perspective center. |
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3D View Point Quality: The third 3D viewer improvement is the display of error ellipsoids. These give the probabilty surface of a point's position and so you can tell very quickly visually which points are most accurate and if there is a direction they are more accurate in. |
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Improved Referencing: The act of referencing is very important in point-based projects. With referencing you are telling the program what marks (points, edges, cylinders, curves) are the same across photos. We redesigned this mode with the goals of both increased flexibility and improved ease of use. |
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New Printing and Output: Now print Photographs with marks, Tables and 3D Views directly to your Windows printer. Views can be printed at different resolutions. Optionally you can "print" to an image file or to the Windows clipboard. Great for presentations and sharing your work. |
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Revamped Tables: Tables build and sort much more quickly. Tables are now generated on demand and along with user stored table-layouts you can get to your data much more quickly. There are new 2D point mark and line tables. And a few nice new features such as grouping and frozen columns. |
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Revamped User Interface: There are a number of user interface changes to make the program more consistent and easier to use. Some of these are: window panes, new toolbar look, streamlined photo visibility, new property/add/remove dialogs, status bar info and feedback, pop up status panes, etc. |
