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| Number | Change | Type | Scanner Specific |
| From Release 2011.1.0 to 2012.0.0 [January 10, 2012] (47 changes) | |||
| 6937 | Alpha-channel and Chromakey Masking: Texture Masks and the new DSM Masks can now be created from a photo's alpha channel or using automatic chromakey extraction. New tool is called "Create Photo Masks..." on the Edit menu. | Significant | |
| 6936 | DSM Masks: the DSM 'trim' region can now be defined by an image mask file. White areas will be used for DSM, black will be ignored. A new photo property stores the DSM mask file name, and there is a new setting on the DSM dialog for trims. | Significant | Scanner only |
| 6782 | Fixed an assert crash that would happen when using surface constraints. | Crash Fix | |
| 6879 | Fixed a crash that could happen when toggling Group Sorting on a photo table. | Crash Fix | |
| 6909 | Fixed a hang on some 64-bit systems when clicking on the group headers on the 3D viewer options or preferences dialogs. | Crash Fix | |
| 6910 | Fixed an assert crash that could happen when processing a project, with a 3D view open and showing surfaces, caused a point with a surface attached to it to lose it's 3D position. | Crash Fix | |
| 6923 | Deleting a point from a static import object no longer causes a crash. | Crash Fix | |
| 6948 | Using the print or output open photo to save to a file no longer causes a crash. | Crash Fix | |
| 6913 | Trying to re-run a SmartMatch project without making any changes and choosing the option to not re-run no longer leaves the project in a state that could cause a crash. | Crash Fix | Scanner only |
| 6914 | Fixed a potential crash/hang when running or re-running certain SmartMatch projects. | Crash Fix | Scanner only |
| 6945 | Doing a text export of a mesh assigned a non-textured material no longer causes a crash. | Crash Fix | Scanner only |
| 6918 | Clarified a warning and the Help document relating to assigning geographic coordinates to camera stations (using the 3D Viewer or right click menu of the Photo Table). | Doc Problem | |
| 6856 | Using the Properties dialog to renumber a point (by changing its ID directly) now has the options to: a) renumber non-coded points into the coded id range, and b) reference the point to another point that already has the newly entered ID number. This allows one to fix coding problems by manually entering the correct code ID and having it reference to other existing correctly coded points. | Improve | |
| 6880 | Referencing manually marked points to a coded target point now gives a warning with an option to proceed with the reference. | Improve | |
| 6893 | When a line or cylinder is selected the measure pane now displays the angle of intersection with the XY, XZ and YZ planes. | Improve | |
| 6920 | The export dialog now explains that VRML files will be created using meters (as per the spec) but a new preference allows output using project units. | Improve | |
| 6927 | A new field on the ortho photo export dialog shows the final pixel size of the image to be created. | Improve | |
| 6935 | The user's Serial Number is now shown on the License Management dialog's title bar. | Improve | |
| 6939 | The photo mask file property fields now have a '...' button (in addition to the hyperlink) allowing you to browse for the mask file. | Improve | |
| 6946 | When an image copy is made (eg. via Idealizing or saving an images enhancements) any ICC color profiles will be retained by the copy. | Improve | |
| 6922 | Point cloud meshes assigned to multi-photo materials now average their color from all photos. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 6938 | When selecting a 3D point and a triangulated mesh the measure pane will display the x,y,z and distance to the closest point on the mesh. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 5766 | Activating a non-photo pane during surface draw mode will now allow you to continue extended surface draw. | Fix | |
| 6857 | All surface draw points now update correctly after processing. | Fix | |
| 6875 | Using the print or output command on a rotated photo with projected 3D data displayed now works correctly. | Fix | |
| 6889 | The processing failed dialog has increased in size to accommodate all possible failure messages. | Fix | |
| 6891 | Fixed a case where photos that did not have suitable references for orientation would be set to 'do not use'. Instead the processing done dialog will not explain they were not able to orient due to insufficent references. | Fix | |
| 6894 | Some minor improvements for the formatting on the measure pane. | Fix | |
| 6896 | Fixed a refresh problem where the External Geometry Explorer and Shapes Explorer tables wouldn't always refresh correctly, eg after resizing the pane on the divider bar. | Fix | |
| 6897 | Using the Tab button now moves through the various controls on the Automarking dialog box (like most other dialogs). | Fix | |
| 6898 | Constraint dialog no longer shows unused unit text when displaying the dialog in a project with no constraints. | Fix | |
| 6900 | Fixed a problem where certain old-version projects would not load properly if the project contained both control points and some form of transform both active. | Fix | |
| 6906 | Minor improvement to how image thumbnail .cch files are used. | Fix | |
| 6907 | When edges fail to solve during processing they now remain as non-3D items. | Fix | |
| 6908 | Merging of projects with transforms assigned to camera positions now correctly aligns the merge result. | Fix | |
| 6911 | Improved the handling of textures and surface triangles after processing when a textured 3D view is open. | Fix | |
| 6912 | Invert selection is no longer disabled during non-region select PointMesh edit mode. | Fix | |
| 6915 | A warning is displayed and processing is not allowed while the weld dialog is open. | Fix | |
| 6924 | Slight improvements to memory usage and speed when creating textures. | Fix | |
| 6925 | Static points imported into a project with an active transform now work in a more consistent and expected way, displaying their static coordinates in the external geometry explorer regardless of the transform state and changes. | Fix | |
| 6926 | Fixed a formatting error in IGES files which prevented them from being read by Catia. | Fix | |
| 6929 | Fixed a typo that could appear momentarily on the PhotoModeler status bar during launch. | Fix | |
| 6866 | The photo table now includes SmartMatch points when calculating the largest and average angle as well as the largest and RMS residual for each photo. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6899 | Clicking the Meshing Options dialog's "Set Defaults" button now resets the Contours option (defaults to off, but default can be set with an .ini setting). | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6902 | Default blend texture for DSMPhoto materials is now 0.0 | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6904 | During PointMesh edit mode invert selection no longer disables delete and split mesh. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6949 | Selecting or unselecting a PointMesh while 3D projected PointMesh visibility is turned on now automatically updates on open photographs without needing to force an image re-draw. | Fix | Scanner only |
| From Release 2011.0.3 to 2011.1.0 [Nov 10, 2011] (104 changes) | |||
| 6729 | Added a new export and import format "Total Station CSV" that will output a comma separated value text file of point information in a format similar to a total station. Import, from the external geometry explorer, allows of x,y,z point locations in various comma separated value file formats. | Significant | |
| 6755 | Point Cloud files in the ASPRS .las format can now be exported (dsm clouds, smart match points, other points), and imported as a PointMesh. | Significant | |
| 6767 | When an AVI video animation export is complete, there is now an option to upload the video to YouTube. | Significant | |
| 6773 | A new option on the animation dialog allows the keyframes to be generated from the photo positions. This provides animations along the camera path (more useful when the photo positions are close to each other and in order - more typical of a SmartMatch project) | Significant | |
| 6839 | Added a new DDE command to create and add points to a Multi-point transform. ("MultiPointTransform id1 type1 x y z transformName") | Significant | |
| 6740 | Several efficiency and improvement changes were made to the feature detection and matching stages of SmartMatch projects. Multi-core support also implemented. | Significant | Scanner only |
| 6868 | The orientation part of automated SmartMatch projects has gone under a significant rewrite and improvement. More projects orient successfully and generally more photos are oriented and more quickly. In addition larger projects (even over 100+ photos) can be successfully processed in SmartMatch now. | Significant | Scanner only |
| 6717 | Fixed a rare case where hitting 'quit' during an export could cause a crash. | Crash Fix | |
| 6759 | Fixed a crash when a point that is part of an affine transform was deleted, then the affine transform was modified or deactivated, and then undo was used. | Crash Fix | |
| 6763 | A warning now appears in the rare event of a missing Help file or an invalid path to it. | Crash Fix | |
| 6779 | Fixed a crash that could happen occasionally when updating a 3D Viewer's textures or layers. | Crash Fix | |
| 6798 | Improved how offsets and their attached objects are handled during referencing | Crash Fix | |
| 6799 | Deleting of imported points with non-imported lines attached to them no longer leaves the line and project in a corrupted state. | Crash Fix | |
| 6801 | Fixed a crash when adding a new shape attached to the ground plane. Also adjusted the size and position of the ground plane so the shape is easier to see. | Crash Fix | |
| 6802 | Fixed a crash when switching a shape from a ground plane relation to pinned to points. | Crash Fix | |
| 6808 | Some projects with a large number of meshes would not save, this has been resolved. | Crash Fix | |
| 6811 | Fixed a crash when 4+ multi-point transform coordinates were assigned to camera stations | Crash Fix | |
| 6831 | Fixed a case where using quick reference with a coded target point could cause a crash. | Crash Fix | |
| 6852 | Fixed a crash that could happen when changing a surface that is showing textured in 3D. | Crash Fix | |
| 6853 | Deleting all visible textured items and then turning on visiblity for a different textured item no longer causes an assert crash. | Crash Fix | |
| 6855 | Fixed a case if a textured 3D view was open during processing and the option to keep existing textures was selected when surfaces were updated the 3D view could get into a state that caused a crash. | Crash Fix | |
| 6871 | When 3D projected cylinders visibility is on, trying to use surface draw on top of them no longer causes an assert crash. | Crash Fix | |
| 6887 | Fixed a case where deleting an object that was highlighted could lead to a crash. | Crash Fix | |
| 6723 | Fixed a crash that could happen when running a SmartMatch project using images with certain uncommon resolutions. | Crash Fix | Scanner only |
| 6803 | While in Point Mesh Edit mode, and rotating around selected mesh triangles in the 3D Viewer, a crash could occur. This is fixed. | Crash Fix | Scanner only |
| 1633 | The single photo drop down on the materials dialog now lists the photo description (defaults to it's filename) as well as the photo number. | Improve | |
| 5652 | Added support for SpaceExplorer, SpaceNavigator and other 3D navigation devices by 3Dconnexion. With a SpaceExplorer the 1 button will bring up the options dialog and the 2 button will change the rotate around selected state. | Improve | |
| 6725 | Clicking and holding down the middle mouse button while dragging the mouse will now pan a photo. | Improve | |
| 6734 | A new preference setting now controls the RGB color to use for the areas of an ortho photo where there is no photo texture. | Improve | |
| 6735 | Added a way to change the default photo visibilty settings for new projects. Also point tags now default to being visible. Please contact Technical Support for instructions on adjusting preference file settings. | Improve | |
| 6741 | If a project processes successfully but some photos, that are set to be used, do not orient a list of these photos is now displayed. | Improve | |
| 6742 | A new preference changes region select in the 3D viewer to include 'crossing objects' rather than just 'contained objects'. | Improve | |
| 6756 | The raw .txt export now defaults to having a single space delimiting each item. A new preference can adjust this to using fixed column widths as the previous versions did. | Improve | |
| 6770 | The visibility on photos panel settings group now has a control for the 3D ID size. | Improve | |
| 6800 | The left, middle and right button navigation in the 3D viewer can now each have separate preference settings for if the alt-key also needs to be pressed. Previously one setting affected all three buttons. | Improve | |
| 6820 | When zooming on a photo (using scroll wheel or +/- keys etc), the zoom now focuses around the mouse cursor position, when Zoom lock mode disabled. Note that if Zoom lock is enabled, selected items will be centered and zoomed on all photos. A new Preference on the Photo Zoom page allows you to revert to the previous zoom method. | Improve | |
| 6832 | Two new settings added to the General Preferences page to control the display of data in PhotoModeler tables. Also the Table Decimals setting on the General page now correctly controls the number of decimal places, rather than the total number of digits displayed in Table data. | Improve | |
| 6834 | The confirmation message shown after you back up your project (via the Backup Project dialog) now has a link to access the online PhotoModeler upload page directly. | Improve | |
| 6840 | Several SmartMatch project settings have been moved and unified on a new SmartMatch project options dialog | Improve | |
| 6458 | When a project has SmartPoints the dialog to choose the best photos for DSM now has a number of shared smart points field. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 6718 | When the dialog to choose the best photos for DSM is used a summary displays which photo pairs were chosen and lists which field caused pairs to be rejected. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 6748 | The select best DSM pairs dialog now has two new methods for selecting pairs "Every other pair (1-2, 3-4, 5-6, etc.)" and "Orderned pairs (1-2, 2-3, 3-4, etc.)". | Improve | Scanner only |
| 6816 | The modify mesh tool will now add the IDs of the source mesh(es) used during the modification to the resulting meshes name. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 6827 | The modify point mesh tool's fill hole function now has an option to also close the largest hole, which can be used to create a closed mesh. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 6850 | The SmartMatch Project Summary dialog has been revamped showing a color coded display of feature detection/matching/orientation status per photo, timing information, and various formatting improvements to improve readability of the summary of project results. This coincides with a major revamp of the SmartMatch algorithms, speed improvements etc. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 131 | Undoing the addition of a first mark to a photo re-sets the photo to do not use. | Fix | |
| 6809 | When a camera station is assigned to a translate point the translates valid icon is now updated correctly. | Fix | |
| 6639 | Fixed various display issues on the External Geometry Explorer and Shapes Explorer and table view windows where table data could partially or not display on some systems. | Fix | |
| 6649 | Improved the speed of certain operations on 2D point marks (regular and smartpoints) when a 2D Point Mark table is open. | Fix | |
| 6690 | Exporting a .gif animation now sets a default file name. | Fix | |
| 6698 | The approximate project size no longer includes inactive imported objects. So sizes such as the 3D viewer camera station symbol, or tesselation settings for curves now reflect only the active project data. | Fix | |
| 6707 | Images with the .jpeg extension (as opposed to .jpg) are now recognized as having a valid image format when starting new projects, adding or replacing photos etc. | Fix | |
| 6709 | [64-bit version only] Fixed a problem with delays in new project setup (photo chip generation) in PhotoModeler and PhotoModeler Scanner. | Fix | |
| 6713 | If a project contains non-sequential photos numbers, when a photo is unable to orient the error message now displays the correct photo number. | Fix | |
| 6715 | Minor alignment corrections for elements on the 3D Viewer advanced options dialog. | Fix | |
| 6716 | Processing has been improved in two situations where the project is weak and unstable. The first is when the project has fixed control points. The second is for highly unstable projects that before might have shown successful processing when actually nothing concrete was done. | Fix | |
| 6720 | If a 32-bit photo view is open using the print or output view command to save a copy to a file format that does not support 32-bit images now works correctly. | Fix | |
| 6721 | If the print or output command to save an image file fails to write the image file, an error message is now displayed. | Fix | |
| 6730 | Selecting items on 2 different tables at the same time now works correctly. | Fix | |
| 6732 | Sub-pixel marking a target two or more times will no longer create a duplicate point mark(s). | Fix | |
| 6751 | Fixed an issue In some warning and information dialog boxes where the '&' character could cause a problem with the display of text. | Fix | |
| 6736 | Resolved some minor memory leaks. | Fix | |
| 6737 | Setting a Rotation's dominant axis now works correctly. | Fix | |
| 6749 | Resolved camera name and assignment issues relating to Inverse Camera project setup when images from multiple cameras are used in a project. | Fix | |
| 6750 | Setting up a project using an EXIF-based inverse camera no longer causes an alert to appear in the Project Status report. | Fix | |
| 6752 | Fixed a problem with the display of the camera selection column in the Camera Assignment grid (which appears in the New Project Wizard when selecting photos from multiple non-calibrated camera sources). | Fix | |
| 6753 | A warning no longer inappropriately displays while entering an invalid value on the Print Coded Target dialog box; instead the OK button disables until valid dimension values are entered. | Fix | |
| 6754 | The Current Layer and Current Material drop down selectors now correctly display a selected Dimension's layer and material. | Fix | |
| 6757 | Fixed several radio buttons on the export dialog settings tab. | Fix | |
| 6760 | In some cases deleting a point and then undoing the delete could put an affine transform in a state where it was incorrectly reporting it was not valid. | Fix | |
| 6764 | When a rotation is added to a project, the camera station position precision values show "n/a" (because precision values do not get rotated, and to avoid confusion with non-rotated precision values being out of sync with rotated position values). Precision values now display when you set a rotation to inactive, without having to remove the rotation item from the project. | Fix | |
| 6769 | Added an error code to a warning message that comes up when a Check For Updates fails. | Fix | |
| 6780 | Fixed a problem where the information pop-up display on a photo could sometimes inappropriately remain on the photo, especially when switching modes using shortcut keys. | Fix | |
| 6785 | Improved the matching of certain RGB colors to the DXF color pallet when exporting DXF files. | Fix | |
| 6797 | Fixed a problem with certain icons not displaying in various panes and title bars (applies to 64bit versions). | Fix | |
| 6806 | Using the 'assign' button to create a control point now clears the highlighted points correctly. | Fix | |
| 6812 | If PhotoModeler is shut down in a position that becomes off-screen the next time it starts (eg. the screen resolution is reduced) it's will be restored to the top left corner. | Fix | |
| 6821 | The Zoom lock default Preference setting has been moved to the Photo Zoom page of Preferences so that it is grouped with other zoom related preference settings. | Fix | |
| 6822 | Minor changes to Subscription Expiry warning dialogs. | Fix | |
| 6829 | When the Photo List pane is the active pane, you can now use your mouse's scroll wheel to scroll through the Photo List, when there are sufficient photos showing and the scroll bar is visible. | Fix | |
| 6836 | The view direction (eg. 'top') in the 3D Viewer of a project with a geographic coordinate systems of 'lat/lon' is now calculated correctly. | Fix | |
| 6837 | Layer visibilty on photos now works correctly with unsaved projects. | Fix | |
| 6838 | Minor edits to the License Management dialog's section on Maintenance Subscription expiry | Fix | |
| 6841 | Double sided surfaces now export correctly to Google Earth .kmz files. | Fix | |
| 6845 | In large projects the RGB colors of SmartPoints could fail to generate due to memory issues, this has been improved. | Fix | |
| 6851 | If a coded target was the first point created in a project subsequent non-coded points (or uncoding a point) now numbers the new points correctly | Fix | |
| 6854 | If an invalid size is entered on the create multi-sheet calibration dialog the button now correctly displays the "Invalid setting" text and restores it to "Print..." once it has been corrected. | Fix | |
| 6616 | Fixed an issue where the Create Dense Surface dialog would not always display correctly when resizing the dialog box. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6695 | Fixed a problem where the incorrect symbol for a SmartPoint symbol displayed in the 3D Viewer after unreferencing the point in a photo. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6719 | The default angle for the DSM Best Photo Pairs dialog has been reduced to 20 degrees. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6722 | SmartMatch projects now work correctly when using images with different resolutions. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6731 | The max residual status bar now displays 'sp' if the point is a SmartPoint or 'pt' for other point types. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6744 | Added a specific check and warning for the case where DSM extents are from trims but the selected photo pair has no trims. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6783 | Fixed the handing of smoothing values passed in via DDE. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6784 | The depth range 'above' field now displays the correctly configured number of decimal places. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6795 | Fixed a problem where SmartPoint ID's and/or Confidence regions could sometimes appear improperly in the 3D Viewer. There is now an option to display SmartPoint ID's when Point ID's are set to visible (Preferences dialog, 3D Viewer, Display). SmartPoint confidence regions are disabled to prevent a cluttered 3D Viewer. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6804 | When modifying multiple meshes the resulting meshes will now be assigned the same material as the original meshes, not just the material of the first mesh. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6814 | An inappropriate warning about a quick-setup camera in Status Report no longer appears on certain SmartMatch Projects. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6815 | Removed unnecessary warnings that could appear when moving a PhotoModeler Scanner license using the offline approach. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6818 | Using PointMesh edit mode on a triangulated mesh viewed with fast textures that has it's texture coming from multiple images now works correctly. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6819 | Undoing a PointMesh split now correctly updates the meshes 3D representation. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6823 | Reworded some warnings on various License Move dialogs to remove references to meshing components. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6835 | A warning now explains you cannot quick reference SmartPoints | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6849 | When re-running SmartMatch, the number of existing matched points is now taken into account when displaying summary information. | Fix | Scanner only |
| From Release 2011.0.2 to 2011.0.3 [May 25, 2011] (64 changes) | |||
| 6656 | PhotoModeler Scanner 64-bit version is now available in beta form. | Significant | |
| 6667 | The 3D viewer now has a gradient background which can be controlled on the 3D viewer options dialog. | Significant | |
| 6672 | Added a new SmartMatch DDE command. You run the command with a single parameter to control the match type (0 for all, 1 for Ordered, 2 for Ordered Photos Surround). | Significant | Scanner only |
| 6617 | If a project's photos are not on disk and the 'open photos showing selected' option is used from a table, there is no longer a crash. | Crash Fix | |
| 6620 | Fixed a crash that could occur if a photo was opened when not displayed on the Photo Control. | Crash Fix | |
| 6621 | Removing an object from a constraint would put the project into a state which could cause crashes. This has been fixed. | Crash Fix | |
| 6625 | If two different coded points were selected as weld candidates for the same non-coded point performing both welds now gives a warning explaining why they cannot be referenced. | Crash Fix | |
| 6640 | Having the properties dialog open and switching between an open and closed curve occasionally caused a crash. This has been resolved. | Crash Fix | |
| 6651 | Fixed an assert crash that would happen when exporting to .kmz. | Crash Fix | |
| 6664 | Projects with multiple surfaces assigned to the same textured material are now handled better in the 3D viewer. Projects with a large number of surfaces assigned to the same texture will no longer cause the 3D viewer to crash. | Crash Fix | |
| 6677 | If a project has surfaces attached to an edge and the project is processed it no longer puts the project in a state that could lead to crashes. | Crash Fix | |
| 6700 | Fixed a crash that could occur when re-running a SmartMatch project while a 3D viewer is open. | Crash Fix | |
| 6710 | Fixed a crash that could occur after deleting an import point in the External Geometry Explorer. | Crash Fix | |
| 6420 | Fixed a rare case where calculating the RGB value of a SmartPoint could cause a crash. | Crash Fix | Scanner only |
| 6679 | Fixed a problem that could cause a hang during the Feature Detection stage of a SmartMatch project, while also making a small optimization in this area. | Crash Fix | Scanner only |
| 6587 | Corrected conflicting Help links in various parts of the Help document. | Doc Problem | |
| 6676 | Removed the term ‘affine’ from the user interface and expanded the help file to describe the nature of the transformation used to define the coordinate system. | Doc Problem | |
| 6622 | The preference setting that controls if photos rotations are automatically set based on the exif header now defaults to on. | Improve | |
| 6624 | Restructured the preferences dialog adding a new ‘texture’ pane which contains some controls previously found on the export pane and moved the XYZRGB setting from the DSM pane to the export pane. | Improve | |
| 6642 | The text size for dimension and annotations can now be controlled by a new preference setting. | Improve | |
| 6645 | Added various status updates to the Coded Target Automated Project summary. | Improve | |
| 6654 | Automated Coded Target Projects now show status of photo orientations on the summary dialog during the processing stage(s). | Improve | |
| 6661 | The 3D viewer options dialog now has an apply button. | Improve | |
| 6670 | As part of the other 3D Viewer improvements, the navigation buttons at the bottom right of the 3D Viewer have been replaced so that they are more visible with any background color setting. When moused over, these buttons now display a tool-tip. | Improve | |
| 6673 | The triangulation setting "High noise" has been renamed "Filter noise during triangluation" to better describe its use and now defaults to on for all new projects. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 6517 | Printing of single sheet calibration grids now works correctly . | Fix | |
| 6596 | The 3D viewer ground plane option now works correctly when a model has a translation set. | Fix | |
| 6607 | When 3D projected data is turned on for a photograph that has had image enhancements applied the enhancement is no longer doubled. | Fix | |
| 6619 | Fixed a memory leak and potential issue with procesing on a multi-core system. | Fix | |
| 6623 | After changing which Photo Set is shown in the Photo Control, the IDs of photos which are open now correctly stay green. | Fix | |
| 6630 | If a camera name contains characters that are invalid for a file name, when the camera is written to the Camera Library these characters will be ignored and removed. | Fix | |
| 6631 | Renaming a constraint now updates the name in the constraint definition mode combo box. | Fix | |
| 6632 | When two different view types (e.g. a table and a 3d view) both display the same object(s) and these objects are selected, the invert selection now works correctly. | Fix | |
| 6633 | Multiple layers can now be deleted at one time using control and/or shift multi-select. | Fix | |
| 6641 | 3D Projections of curves through points now update correctly as they are created or when their properties change their shape. | Fix | |
| 6643 | If items are selected when switching to marking mode the sub-selection highlight will now clear correctly when the first new mark is created. | Fix | |
| 6644 | If a PointMesh is selected when the Flip Surface command is used, the mesh will now have its facing direction reversed. | Fix | |
| 6646 | When printing non-RAD legacy coded targets there will no longer be one extra target printed. | Fix | |
| 6652 | When the proxy settings dialog is re-opened the port field is now populated correctly. | Fix | |
| 6655 | Minor formatting fixes and typos on various dialog boxes. | Fix | |
| 6658 | When a line or dimension is over lapped by an edge, cylinder or curve the context sensitive cursor will correctly show which object will be selected. | Fix | |
| 6660 | The point coverage percent displayed in the photo table now updates correctly when points change their 3D state by an action other than referencing. | Fix | |
| 6662 | Adjusting single sheet calibration options allows you to turn off steps 4, 5 and 6. | Fix | |
| 6665 | The photo visibility of dimensions/annotations and SmartPoints is now saved correctly. | Fix | |
| 6666 | New projects that do not have the residual magnification set before saving now correctly save the default exaggeration as one. | Fix | |
| 6671 | Fixed a problem with the Create Coded Targets dialog where the number of pages/rows/targets did not always update correctly when invalid settings were entered. | Fix | |
| 6682 | Fixed a typo in the automatic referencing tool-tip. | Fix | |
| 6685 | Projects with camera stations oriented through a method other than processing will now show their largest residual on the status bar. | Fix | |
| 6686 | Using the alt-zoom window no longer interupts the use of keyboard short cuts. | Fix | |
| 6687 | Added a new check and specific warning when calibration images are loaded with different rotations. | Fix | |
| 6688 | Fixed a problem with offline license move, where the Move button on the License Management dialog could become disabled during Step 3 of the procedure. | Fix | |
| 6689 | The preference setting for "ratio of smallest target in image to image size" now allows decimal places. | Fix | |
| 6694 | When selected, exporting a project with imported lines now correctly includes the imported lines. | Fix | |
| 6699 | Fixed a problem where certain table layouts would not display correct columns or with the correct sort order and column. | Fix | |
| 6701 | The units are now displayed correctly in the External Geometry Explorer when project units have been changed. | Fix | |
| 6703 | Added information on how to get updates to the warning that comes up when a Check for Updates fails. | Fix | |
| 6577 | Fixed a case where some PointMeshes would not extend all the way to the edge of their trim region. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6584 | Fixed several cases where selected SmartPoint marks would be used when they should not. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6628 | If a contour table is open when new contours are created the table will now update without needing to be re-opened. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6635 | A new preference controls if the approximate surface for creating a PointMesh uses just the points inside the trim or all points on the photo. The preference setting is numeric and defaults to 10. E.g. if there are more than 10 points shared between photos in their trims then those will be used for the approx surface - otherwise all points are used to create approx. surface. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6650 | If SmartPoints visibility-on-photos is turned off, selecting the point on a 2D SmartPoint table no longer draws the highlighted point on a photo. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6674 | [64bit only] Fixed a problem where the Preferences file (.ini) would get overwritten when running and alternating between v2011 32Bit and v2011 64bit. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6683 | Fewer low contrast points in SmartMatch projects (like in the sky) will be detected now. The contrast threshold is now an ini setting though so if this change breaks your project contact us to find out how to reset. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6702 | Trims on both photos will now be used when determining which points should be used for the approximate surface. | Fix | Scanner only |
| From Release 2011.0.1 to 2011.0.2 [Mar 10, 2011] (17 changes) | |||
| 6576 | Several fixes for issues with PMV type 2 projects. | Crash Fix | |
| 6578 | Deleting a point that was assigned to a geographic affine object could cause a crash if done after opening a point table, a 3D view or doing an export. This has been fixed. | Crash Fix | |
| 6591 | A crash no longer occurs after deleting a point which is part of a check distance. | Crash Fix | |
| 6612 | Fixed a crash bug that could occur when trying to edit unassigned scale, rotate or translate objects in the External Geometry Explorer. | Crash Fix | |
| 6614 | Certain constraints (such as coplanar constraint) when processed would leave the project in an incorrect state - which might later cause a crash when opening the constraints dialog. This has been fixed. | Crash Fix | |
| 6598 | Running Create Dense Surface on a 48-bit image no longer causes a crash. | Crash Fix | Scanner only |
| 6520 | More information is shown on the dialog that appears after a failed activation in certain circumstances. | Improve | |
| 6603 | The About dialog no longer shows the User Name and User Company (and no longer does the Installer ask for an optional User Name and User Company). Also on the About dialog, the "Activation Code" label has been renamed to "Serial Number". | Improve | |
| 6605 | The colorize height setting for PointMeshes now uses the Z range for just meshes in the project rather than all project data. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 6585 | Fixed two typo's when entering scales 'disance' is now 'distance'. | Fix | |
| 6592 | A warning now displays when deleting a point that is part of an active scale/rotate/translate or multi-point affine. | Fix | |
| 6593 | If a project's images were missing and a point that was part of an affine was deleted from a table, the table display would not update. This has been resolved. | Fix | |
| 6599 | The memory allocation threshold has been adjusted to prevent possible memory allocation failures during automarking on 64-bit computers with more than 4 cores and more than 2gb of RAM. | Fix | |
| 6606 | Closing the PMV tracking dialog will close the total error dialog if it was displayed due to processing during tracking of type 2 projects. | Fix | |
| 6611 | In some cases the add/remove photos dialog would not list all photos in the project. This has been resolved. | Fix | |
| 6595 | Mask regions (which help reduce edge noise) in Dense Surface Model creation were not being created correctly for non-idealized images (a new capability in 2011.0.1). This would often show up as noise points in the 3d point cloud that fall way at the edge of a mesh from a photo pair. Fixed. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6613 | Small speed improvement in SmartMatch during the marking stage. | Fix | Scanner only |
| From Release 2011.0.0 to 2011.0.1 [Feb 23, 2011] (36 changes) | |||
| 6548 | A new option on the 3D viewer options dialog allows point cloud meshes to be colored based on the Z offset of each point. This provides a great visualization of height changes. | Significant | Scanner only |
| 6567 | Images no longer need to be Idealized as a pre-step to doing DSM (dense surface modeling). That step is now integrated into DSM processing making DSM fewer steps overall and easier to understand. Images that are Idealized before hand still work as before. | Significant | Scanner only |
| 6524 | Removing an Imported Object while in control point marking mode (of that object) will no longer cause a crash. | Crash Fix | |
| 6537 | Fixed a problem with drag/drop of projects onto a PhotoModeler window when the pmr file was drag/dropped onto an open photo of an open project. The dropped project now opens correctly. | Crash Fix | |
| 6540 | If a object assigned to an affine transform or check object was the destination of a reference the affine would not be updated correctly and in some cases this could lead to a crash. | Crash Fix | |
| 6542 | Fixed a crash bug that prevented the assignment of a geo coordinate to a shape vertex. | Crash Fix | |
| 6571 | Removed error condition check that could cause an assert crash ( rotationMatrixOK == FALSE ) during processing. | Crash Fix | |
| 6565 | Gray scale (8 bit) images would not idealize - hang or crash. This has been fixed. | Crash Fix | |
| 6579 | Fixed a problem where opening a photo could cause a crash or put PhotoModeler in a frozen state in certain circumstances (eg after some DDE calls). | Crash Fix | |
| 6564 | The Help button on the SmartMatch project summary dialog now brings up the correct section of the Help document. | Doc Problem | Scanner only |
| 6525 | The processing successful dialog shows the length of time it took to process. | Improve | |
| 6545 | When changing the filter type on an open or save dialog the name will update its extension to match the new filter. | Improve | |
| 6549 | Various activation and maintenance subscription renewal dialogs have been revamped to avoid confusion between Activation and Maintenance Subscription renewal. You can also now provide an email address while activating to facilitate update announcements and maintenance subscription renewal reminders. | Improve | |
| 6522 | The Open Photos Showing selected command on the right click menu now works for dimensions and annotations. | Fix | |
| 6523 | Fixed a problem where a CheckPoints table would not display the CheckPoints in a project (applies to PhotoModeler only, not PhotoModeler Scanner). | Fix | |
| 6527 | The add field calibrated camera to library and the warning about a project not converging no longer come up when processing is run via DDE. | Fix | |
| 6529 | When sizing the Create Dense Surface dialog, both the photo pairs grid and the settings area now adjust. | Fix | |
| 6530 | With a type 1 PMV project if the 'mark coded targets' option was selected without opening the settings dialog, processing between epochs would be on by default. This is no longer the case. | Fix | |
| 6535 | When a warning about idealizing too many images in parallel comes up, the memory already allocated will now be correctly released - meaning the next idealize will work correctly (with fewer images in parallel). | Fix | |
| 6538 | The rename shape command now works correctly and no longer causes conflicts with the short cut keys. | Fix | |
| 6543 | The CheckPoints and CheckDistance tables would not always update when new items added in the External Geometry Explorer. This has been fixed. | Fix | |
| 6544 | Shape face names were not always cleared from the shape explorer when switching or solving shapes. This has been fixed. | Fix | |
| 6570 | Renamed tools on the External Object Explorer, from Rename Import and Delete Import to Rename Object and Delete Object respecitively. | Fix | |
| 6552 | The northing, easting and elevation column headers are now formatted correctly. | Fix | |
| 6554 | World file export (with ortho-photos) has been improved to be correct in more cases. | Fix | |
| 6556 | The Edit->Select All and it's associated short cut key (ctrl-A by default) now work on the Photo Control. | Fix | |
| 6557 | Changing the preference for the number of visible digits in a table now updates any currently open tables. | Fix | |
| 6558 | When an imported surface is selected the surface status bar now lists the type as "Imported Surface". | Fix | |
| 6563 | Fixed a problem that could prevent PhotoModeler from shutting down correctly after an online license move, in some circumstances. | Fix | |
| 6566 | The Idealize Project dialog's "Number of images to resample in parallel" default setting now shows the number of photos in the project, if it is lower than the maximum number of images based on image size and RAM resources. | Fix | |
| 6568 | Fixed a problem with some user-optional Yes/No warnings where the ini setting to display the warning would not take effect. | Fix | |
| 6569 | Reworded and clarified some summary information text on the Automated Project summary dialogs. | Fix | |
| 6580 | Fixed a problem with DDE's Automark command that prevented proper assignment of the optional user name parameter to automarked points. | Fix | |
| 6531 | In some cases where parts of the approximate surface are at a steep angle to the camera the minimum suggested sampling interval would not be appropriate. This has been improved. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6541 | Fixed a problem where final error and iteration processing data was not written to the project status report when running SmartMatch Projects. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6550 | Using the open photos showing selected command on a PointMesh no longer opens all photos. | Fix | Scanner only |
| From Release 2010.0.9 to 2011.0.0 [Jan 14, 2011] (64 changes) | |||
| 6428 | Multi-point and multi-point-geo affines can now assign a camera station's position to a known x,y,z location to define the coordinate system. If an assigned camera station's image contains geographic information in it's image header this information can optionally be extracted and assigned. | Significant | |
| 6443 | The photo thumbnail IDs, in the Photo Control, now turn green when the photo is open, and remains black if the photo is closed - providing a way to quickly identify photos that are already open. | Significant | |
| 6447 | Fixed a crash that could happen after deleting a marked control point. | Crash Fix | |
| 6460 | Fixed a crash when exporting a Project Status Report to text file when a very large number of points are marked outside of the camera's calibrated coverage region. | Crash Fix | |
| 6467 | Fixed a crash that could happen after deleting an object from the external geometry explorer and then changing the projects units. | Crash Fix | |
| 6475 | Adding a new object to the external geometry explorer, then undoing it and performing certain actions could cause a crash. This has been fixed. | Crash Fix | |
| 6497 | Fixed a crash that could happen when a project with a lot of photos failed processing during the second stage. | Crash Fix | |
| 6504 | Fixed a case where automarking a PMV project on a multi-core machine could cause the program to hang. | Crash Fix | |
| 6508 | Fixed a crash that could happen when removing a number of photos that cause points to be deleted (because no more marks). | Crash Fix | |
| 6511 | Canceling the save of a PMV project would cause a crash and could could cause a crash with a subsequent regular project when opening a photo. These have been fixed. | Crash Fix | |
| 6519 | Fixed a crash that would happen when closing a project while in control point marking mode. | Crash Fix | |
| 6478 | Using the Dense Surface->Export contours option to create a DXF export of contours now applies the project coordinate system and no longer causes a crash. | Crash Fix | Scanner only |
| 6480 | If SmartMatch detection failed, PhotoModeler was left in a state where a potential crash could occur. This has been fixed. | Crash Fix | Scanner only |
| 6448 | Help document updates: - description of setting up a Coded Target Import File - various updates in SmartMatch section - updates in the DSM photography section - various updates to reflect changes in the PhotoModeler user interface | Doc Problem | |
| 6436 | A new Preference setting controls whether multiple selection on photos and in the 3D viewer is done by holding the Shift key or the Ctrl key. | Improve | |
| 6437 | The X, Y, Z labels for columns in the External Geometry Explorer now display the units. | Improve | |
| 6441 | The layers and items tabs of the export dialog now have check/uncheck all buttons. | Improve | |
| 6444 | You can now navigate tables using the Up Arrow (move up one), Down Arrow (move down one), Home (move to top row), and End (move to bottom row) keys, in addition to the Page Down and Page Up keys that previously were enabled. | Improve | |
| 6455 | Added an option to save a project before running the Backup Project command (File menu) if current project has unsaved changes. | Improve | |
| 6456 | The message that appears after idealizing a project has been revamped and now provides an option to immediately reprocess the project. | Improve | |
| 6459 | The advanced pane of the 3D Viewer options dialog now has a setting to control the background color of the 3D view. This setting is saved with the project and also allows different 3D views to have different background colors. | Improve | |
| 6462 | The option to "Save project before processing" is now stored in your preferences so that the setting is restored whenever processing. | Improve | |
| 6484 | When the status bar button to select the mark with the largest residual is used all open photos referenced to that mark will center around the mark. | Improve | |
| 6485 | When zoom lock is turned on the selected objects will now stay centered as you zoom out. | Improve | |
| 6486 | Operations that attempt to make a photo mark visible (such as, 'expand selection to all views', 'reference next point', 'show point with highest residual', and 'zoom lock') will now center the mark(s) on the open photos (previously if the mark(s) were already visible the scroll of the photos would not change). Now with the photo scroll always changing to center the marks - they will be easier to find. | Improve | |
| 6488 | The automated coded target autoproject summary dialog now displays the time it took to finish the auto-project run. | Improve | |
| 6490 | Selecting the Mark/Pin mode option on the marking menu when there are no imported control or pinned objects produces a warning with an option to import an object before switching to the mark/pin mode. | Improve | |
| 6491 | The automated coded target summary now displays the target color being detected (white on black or black on white). | Improve | |
| 6498 | Several optimizations have been done to improve speed (focused on SmartMatch autoprojects). Some SmartMatch projects run from 5 to 50% faster. | Improve | |
| 6465 | Point cloud meshes assigned a multi-photo material will have each point colored based on the first photo a point projects on. This allows meshes that span multiple photos to have all points colored. Additionally the idealized region for any images will be ignored. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 6479 | When the Modify Point Mesh: Register and Merge 'include selected Object Points' option is selected the summary dialog will list how many points were added to the mesh. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 6494 | A warning now appears when processing a project (automatic or manual) that has PointMeshes in it. It is not advisable to process a project once you've created PointMeshes because pre-existing meshes will not update after processing, and may no longer align with new meshes. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 6434 | The preference that controls the number of reference helper lines displayed at one time now allows up to 99 lines. | Fix | |
| 6438 | Fixed a problem where the default layer and material was not always getting set in some projects. | Fix | |
| 6439 | An open Offset Table now correctly updates when an offset point added to the project. | Fix | |
| 6440 | Fixed some paint issues that would occur when the export dialog was open. | Fix | |
| 6442 | When points and the TEXT fields of a dxf import are selected for import the text will now be assigned to the imported point name field. | Fix | |
| 6452 | A warning now comes up when there is insufficent memory resources to idealize a set of images. | Fix | |
| 6453 | At some zoom levels, on-photo dimension-lines would sometimes draw erroneous black lines to the top left corner of the image. This has been fixed. | Fix | |
| 6454 | The Maintenance Subscription confirmation dialog no longer appears after an offline/manual activation of a Trial activation code. | Fix | |
| 6461 | When you process a project in which all used photos are already oriented, the default orientation type is now, more logically, 'all photos'. So a re-orient all can be done more easily. | Fix | |
| 6463 | Fixed typos in the Photo Standard Deviation information when exporting certain projects' Project Status reports to text file. | Fix | |
| 6464 | Editing of multi-point affine names now works correctly. | Fix | |
| 6466 | Fixed a problem when exporting the Project Status Report to text file where the Standard Deviation data in the Photos section would not show valid information. | Fix | |
| 6468 | When a point is manually adjusted it's 3D confidence region is now cleared. Re-processing will recompute the confidence region (which might happen automatically). | Fix | |
| 6469 | Open 3D views now retain their highlights after a project is processed. | Fix | |
| 6472 | In a 3D View confidence regions can now be turned off independently of point IDs. | Fix | |
| 6473 | The total error dialog no longer comes up (or remains on the screen) when using the DDE process command. | Fix | |
| 6474 | The Getting Started dialog has been increased in size so no scroll bar is displayed when in trial mode. | Fix | |
| 6482 | The Scale/rotate Wizard now correctly sets the dominant axis of the rotation. | Fix | |
| 6483 | When a non-3D object is assigned using the scale/rotate wizard or the external geometry explorer a warning now explains that the affine will not be applied until the object is 3D. | Fix | |
| 6487 | Creating an approximate camera from image EXIF data where there is insufficient EXIF information now displays a warning. | Fix | |
| 6495 | Reworded various Maintenance Subscription expiry dialogs. | Fix | |
| 6496 | Fixed several small memory leaks | Fix | |
| 6500 | A warning no longer appears when setting up an offset if control points are active/used to establish the model coordinate system. | Fix | |
| 6502 | The cursor will now indicate the system is busy after hitting 'ok' on the 'best pairs' DSM dialog. | Fix | |
| 6503 | Exporting a project with just SmartPoints to a format other than DXF now works correctly. | Fix | |
| 6505 | The setting for minimum coded target size to mark before tracking is now treated the same way as the automarking dialog. | Fix | |
| 6507 | Activating a static or pinned import will no longer prompt to deactivate an existing affine transformation. | Fix | |
| 6509 | Removing multiple photos is faster and no longer causes the photo control to flicker as the photos are removed. | Fix | |
| 6451 | The "Dense Surface->Save PointMesh..." command will now give a warning if more than one mesh is selected. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6457 | A warning now appears explaining you cannot run dense surface creation if there are fewer than 2 oriented photos. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6477 | When Modify Point Mesh / Register and Merge / 'include selected object points' option is selected but no points are selected, the remaining modify steps will still be run. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6493 | Creating Surface Draw on a photo where both a triangulated and a point cloud PointMesh existed would sometimes fail to create a surface draw point. This has been fixed. | Fix | Scanner only |
| From Release 2010.0.8 to 2010.0.9 [Nov 25, 2010] (39 changes) | |||
| 6403 | Double clicking on the User Name cell of a table view allows you to edit the name directly in the table (avoiding need to have Property pane open). | Significant | |
| 6375 | Fixed a crash that could occur when hitting 'quit' during the marking phase of a calibration or automatic project. | Crash Fix | |
| 6422 | Older version 6 projects that had an empty 3-point scale rotate with no points assigned are no longer prevented from loading. | Crash Fix | |
| 6425 | Selecting "Open 3D viewer (show options)" and then changing the advanced surface rendering mode no longer causes a crash. | Crash Fix | |
| 6369 | Fixed a crash that would happen when creating a dense surface via DDE failed. | Crash Fix | Scanner only |
| 6392 | Hitting quit during the orientation phase of an automatic project no longer causes an assert crash. | Crash Fix | Scanner only |
| 6414 | Processing a project that contains SmartPoints with the high residual removal step included no longer causes a crash. | Crash Fix | Scanner only |
| 6397 | Updates, clarifications and fixed various links in the Help document. | Doc Problem | |
| 6380 | An 'Annotation' column added to the "Dimensions/Annotations" table. The annotation string is shown if the displayed object is an annotation, 'n/a' is shown if the object is a measurement. | Improve | |
| 6384 | Renewing your Maintenance Subscription no longer requires you to enter the activation code. | Improve | |
| 6388 | A new preference setting controls if layer information is written to the Maya Script (.ma) file. | Improve | |
| 6406 | Upon successfully activating after installing a downloaded v2010 Demo version, you're now prompted to enter your personal information so that the About dialog doesn't show "Demo User". | Improve | |
| 6415 | The Maintenance Subscription confirmation (shown on initial activation and subscription renewal) is now more explanatory and includes a link to a web page showing further details. | Improve | |
| 6427 | All components (the executable, DLLs and installer) are now digitally signed. | Improve | |
| 6371 | Selecting a 3D SmartPoint shows its measurements in the measure pane. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 6382 | Photo table now has "# SmartPoints" column showing the number of SmartPoints marked per image | Improve | Scanner only |
| 6385 | Background processing is now on by default in PhotoModeler Scanner. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 6424 | There is a new setting on the Preference dialog's Automated Project page allowing you to set the cutoff threshold used when marking matched points using the Ordered SmartMatch project type. Increase this so that fewer photo pairs are marked when the point count starts dropping off. A lower threshold value allows small point count matched pairs to be marked. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 6368 | An error message could come up during region select in the 3D Viewer with a particular set of steps. This has been fixed. | Fix | |
| 6370 | Fixed a typo on the export dialog raw format is XYZ. | Fix | |
| 6377 | Import a .txt/ctl file for a multi-point affine now assigns the names from the file to the points. | Fix | |
| 6378 | If the original camera was calibrated at a different resolution (but same aspect ratio) as the images used for field calibration the coverage percent displayed was incorrect. This has been fixed. | Fix | |
| 6379 | If a project had 2 cameras assigned to photos an incorrect warning about not being able to run field calibraiton would be displayed. This has been fixed. | Fix | |
| 6381 | The "Print or Output Current View..." tool on the right click menu of 3D Viewer has been repaired. | Fix | |
| 6386 | An unnecessary Maintenance Subscription message no longer appears when online activation fails. | Fix | |
| 6389 | Fixed a case where if the first surface (or cylinder) in a project was not textured all surfaces with a textured material set to do occlusion checking would not texture. | Fix | |
| 6395 | If a set of non-matching images was chosen in the project wizard selecting the option to go back and choose a consistent set would leave the wizard in a state where the images were displayed but would not be added to the project. This has been fixed. | Fix | |
| 6398 | Reworded the warning that comes up when the target size was too large for the given multi-sheet calibration setup. | Fix | |
| 6401 | The black idealized border region will no longer be used when generating textures. Along with some improvements to memory handling during texture creation. | Fix | |
| 6402 | The rename button on the external geometry explorer now works for control objects. | Fix | |
| 6413 | Processing no longer fails if there are isolated sets of unoriented photos in the project. Eg. if photos 1 and 2 are solving, and photos 3 and 4 are unoriented and have enough references (between 3 and 4 but not enough linking them to 1 and 2) then 3 and 4 will remain unoriented (correct) but will now also not cause processing to fail (so at least the good photo set can process). | Fix | |
| 6421 | During referencing mode when the cursor is over an existing point on an unreferenced photo it correctly changes to the referencing select cursor. Additionally, when the cursor is over an oriented photo it no longer turns green when it cannot compute the estimated residual. | Fix | |
| 6426 | The Offline/Manual Activation and Maintenance Subscription process has been made simpler and now only requires entering a single registration key, rather than a 2 step process. | Fix | |
| 6367 | The 3D Viewer multi-select popup menu now lists SmartPoints separately from ObjectPoints. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6376 | If the largest residual in a project was a SmartPoint, clicking the max. residual display on the status bar would not open the photo to show the mark with the largest residual. This has been fixed. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6387 | Fixed a typo in the PointMesh Table Depth Range column headings. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6404 | Fixed a problem that prevented Automatic Surfacing/Triangulation in some SmartMatch projects. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6410 | If point IDs were turned on SmartPoints would not clear the sub-select highlight color from their ID portion. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6423 | You are now prompted to save your project if you quit PhotoModeler right after running a SmartMatch project. | Fix | Scanner only |
| From Release 2010 Beta 7 to 2010.0.8 Final Release [Oct.28, 2010] (20 changes) | |||
| 6345 | New DDE for DSM commands (see the help file for details): GetNextPointMeshID, CreatePointMesh, MergeRegister, PreTriangulateMeshClean, TriangulatePointMesh, PostTriangulateMeshClean, ExportPointMesh, DeletePointMesh | Significant | Scanner only |
| 6353 | SmartMatch projects now have a new project type option where users can specify that the input photos are in a sequence. In some projects this can speed up the overall processing, and in some cases it can reduce possible errors when parts of an object look similar in different places (like a modern building looking the same on two sides). Sequences can be linear or a surround (where first and last photo overlap). At this stage, sequences are defined by the image file name. | Significant | Scanner only |
| 6358 | It is now possible to add one or more new photos to a SmartPoints project, and re-run SmartMatch, without re-matching all photo pairs. The number and order of matching will depend on the new SmartPoints project type. The SmartPoints project is restarted using a new 'Run SmartPoints Project' tool on the main toolbar and the project menu (only visible when a SmartPoints project is opened). | Significant | Scanner only |
| 6348 | Fixed a crash that could happen if an edge was selected when defining a rotation. | Crash Fix | |
| 6363 | Fixed an assert crash (orient.cpp basePhoto && photo) that could occur during robust orientation. | Crash Fix | |
| 6364 | After a select all on a Point or SmartPoint table certain actions could cause a crash. | Crash Fix | |
| 6359 | A new Target Size Estimate dialog has been added specifically for Multi-sheet Calibration printing. The new target size estimate is based on camera focal length, format size, image resolution width and target sheet area width. Values can be obtained from image's EXIF information where available. | Improve | |
| 6361 | Added the ability to add photos to a project sorted by filename. A new checkbox on the Add/Remove Photos dialog controls this. | Improve | |
| 6349 | Fixed the text of the name of Surface's extents property. | Fix | |
| 6350 | Improved the memory handling when assigning RGB colors to points or SmartPoints. | Fix | |
| 6352 | Small improvements in Robust Orientation | Fix | |
| 6354 | User optional warnings will appear when Maintenance Subscription expires or is about to expire. | Fix | |
| 6355 | Minor wording changes in the Help section's Tutorial Videos link, on Getting Started panel. | Fix | |
| 6357 | Cosmetic and wording changes on the License Management dialog and Activation dialog for Maintenance Subscription clarification. | Fix | |
| 6360 | Added a new tool to launch an internet browser and view the online Tutorial Videos on the PhotoModeler website. | Fix | |
| 6362 | During various projects with summary dialogs (e.g., SmartMatch, Coded Target Automated Project, Calibration etc.), the progress dialog now appears on the right edge of the summary dialog to allow viewing of summary updates. | Fix | |
| 6346 | SmartPoints now have their own item check for export that controls if SmartPoints are included in an export or not. This setting is also available with the export DDE commands. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6347 | SmartPoints now export to DXF correctly. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6351 | When a project has many points (including SmartPoints), the Create Dense Surface dialog will be faster loading and refreshing. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6356 | Wording changes in the SmartPoints project summary dialog. | Fix | Scanner only |
| From Release 2010 Beta 6 to Beta 7 [Sep 30, 2010] (37 changes) | |||
| 6342 | A new Robust Orientation and Processing algorithm has been developed to allow for mis-references in points and still process correctly. This new algorithm is used by Automated Coded Target projects (to account for the occasional mis-code) and in the new SmartMatch tool. | Significant | |
| 6341 | The new SmartMatch tool automatically marks and references natural features in images, then orients and processes the photos to provide fully automatic project set up and orientation for non-targeted projects. | Significant | Scanner only |
| 6307 | Fixed a crash that could occur when canceling a weld of unreferenced points. | Crash Fix | |
| 6332 | If a DDE automark command passes in a region that is less than 2 pixels the whole image will be used. Previously marking an image size 0 0 0 0 would cause an inactive progress bar to remain on the screen. | Crash Fix | |
| 6344 | Fixed a crash that would occure when clicking on a contour during point mesh edit mode. | Crash Fix | Scanner only |
| 6309 | A new preference setting controls if the scale/rotate wizard clears selection at the start of the wizard. | Improve | |
| 6311 | The option to include the ID numbers when creating targets (coded and non-coded) is now a preference setting. | Improve | |
| 6323 | Slight changes to the layout of the materials dialog. | Improve | |
| 6325 | When editing or adding a photo set the name field will automatically be highlighted for editing. | Improve | |
| 6326 | The project status report now defaults to only specific branches expanded. | Improve | |
| 6327 | If a point is assigned a textured material when textures are turned on in the 3D viewer the point will be assigned an RGB value from a photo it is marked on. This RGB value can also be exported to the .raw format and viewed in on point tables. | Improve | |
| 6328 | When a project has lots of points, opening a 3D viewer will now be faster. | Improve | |
| 6329 | Select All now puts up a wait cursor in case a large selection takes a long time. | Improve | |
| 6333 | The Robust Orientation system is used in Multi-sheet Calibration to assist with possible mis-codings. | Improve | |
| 6334 | Multi-sheet calibration is now faster, as it solves the camera with a single stage of processing. | Improve | |
| 6335 | Processing is a little bit faster when dealing with unstable projects that require extra iterations. | Improve | |
| 6339 | The DDE AutoMark command can now take a Photo Set name as it's first parameter as well as a photo number. When the param is a non-numeric value, the name is used to look up a Photo Set. All photos in this Photo Set are auto-marked (allowing you to take advanced of multi-core auto-marking (if the photo set has more than one photo)). | Improve | |
| 6308 | The dense surface preview dialog now shows the sampling rate used on the title bar. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 6314 | Added a new 'flatten' option to point mesh smoothing. This will reduce 'floating' noise points and jagged peaks. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 6310 | If a view other than top was selected for orthographic photo output and a world file output was also selected it was possible to have two of the view radio buttons selected at one time. This has been resolved. | Fix | |
| 6312 | Exporting of points created via the autoproject wizard or DDE and not assigned to an explicit layer will now work correctly. | Fix | |
| 6313 | Removing an unoriented photo from a project no longer causes any points on this photo to re-calculate. | Fix | |
| 6315 | Fixed a case that could cause the region select button to remain inactive. | Fix | |
| 6316 | Fixed a case where a warning dialog could come up during region select mode. | Fix | |
| 6317 | When the 3D viewer setting 'show rays' is turned on the rays from selected points to their camera positions now show. | Fix | |
| 6318 | When the project review pane is open if a field that had previously had no objects outside of it's threshold has one go outside the threshold the column will now be added to the grid. | Fix | |
| 6319 | Photos that are not oriented are no longer reviewed by the project review pane. | Fix | |
| 6320 | The project review pane will now check camera calibration residuals and coverage using all decimal places instead of just as a whole number. | Fix | |
| 6321 | Updated newly installed review settings to match the defaults. | Fix | |
| 6322 | The photos tab on the project review pane is now sized to fill all available space. | Fix | |
| 6324 | When orthographic photo output runs out of memory it will try clearing any cached data to allow the process to continue. Previously it would output pixels as white once memory was consumed. | Fix | |
| 6330 | When an object point has only one mark, the status bar (and mouse-over tooltip) showing the angle, largest residual, photo of largest residual no longer shows invalid data. | Fix | |
| 6336 | Newly added check distances and points will now always be active. | Fix | |
| 6337 | Editing the position of an assigned translate now updates right away. | Fix | |
| 6338 | The 3D viewer in-model axis now displays at the correct location when a rotation and translation are applied. It also draws in the same colors as the axis which is displayed in corrner. | Fix | |
| 6340 | The Properties pane now displays and sets the layer and material for the imported object instead of incorrectly indicating that each imported line has a separate layer and material. | Fix | |
| 6343 | Improvements to DXF contour export compatibility | Fix | |
| From Release 2010 Beta 5 to Beta 6 [Sep 1, 2010] (32 changes) | |||
| 6273 | A new DDE command "RELOADPREFERENCES" will clear the preferences cache causing most changes written directly to the PhotoModeler preference file to be loaded. | Significant | |
| 6282 | A new flag for the Process DDE command has been added. 64 = include the high residual removal step of optimization. | Significant | |
| 6300 | The calibration wizard now detects what type of calibration is being run (single or multi sheet). | Significant | |
| 6293 | The measure pane will now display the volume of a selected triangulated mesh. | Significant | Scanner only |
| 6278 | Removing a point from a project that is part of a multi-point affine no longer causes a crash. | Crash Fix | |
| 6280 | Fixed some cases where automarking (or marking during calibration) could cause a crash. | Crash Fix | |
| 6281 | Self-calibration now works correctly. | Crash Fix | |
| 6287 | Fixed an assert crash that could happen when trying to import using an invalid file format. | Crash Fix | |
| 6295 | Fixed a crash that would happen when assigning a check point. | Crash Fix | |
| 6296 | Fixed a crash that occured when changing the horizontal or vertical axis of a 3 point plane ortho export. | Crash Fix | |
| 6299 | Fixed a crash that would happen if a duplicate code was detected during a multi-sheet calibration. | Crash Fix | |
| 6275 | Fixed a crash that would occur when a preview was run using parameters that would cause mesh creation to fail. | Crash Fix | Scanner only |
| 6304 | The Create Coded Targets dialog's Help button brings up the correct section in the Help document, when printing coded targets, and when printing calibration sheets. | Doc Problem | |
| 6272 | Some speed improvements with the project review pane and tables when doing some per-photo calculations. | Improve | |
| 6279 | Removing photos from large projects is now faster. | Improve | |
| 6283 | When adding a new scale rotate and translate to a project, they will now be added in that order. | Improve | |
| 6285 | The warnings that appear when license file or other application data locations are not writable have been made more informative. | Improve | |
| 6291 | The icons on the External Geometry Explorer for status and various geometric types have been replaced. | Improve | |
| 6297 | Updated the installed PhotoModeler.ini preferences file to reduce the number of items. Several default values were also adjusted. | Improve | |
| 6298 | Added a new preference to reverse the scroll wheel zoom direction in 3D views. | Improve | |
| 6294 | The measurement options for meshes can be adjusted on the preferences dialog. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 6284 | The calibration and autoproject summary dialogs will now show the correct number of 3D points being created at various steps. | Fix | |
| 6286 | Using shift select when point IDs or other text tags were displayed along with sub-selection highlights now correctly paints the mark red. | Fix | |
| 6288 | Importing files when the last line does not contain a line feed will now work. | Fix | |
| 6289 | Export to KML now outputs the correct coordinates. | Fix | |
| 6290 | The add photos dialog allows a larger set of file names to be added at once. | Fix | |
| 6301 | Fixed a crash that would happen when trying to add a multi-point affine by importing a file with no point data. | Fix | |
| 6302 | Adding more than one shape to a shapes project now works correctly. | Fix | |
| 6305 | Table layout files replaced during install to correct corruption in various layout files. | Fix | |
| 6276 | Measure of PointMesh objects now works correctly. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6277 | Scanner will now correctly produce PointMeshes in projects with large geo coordinate control (or that used to have these control points). | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6303 | If a combination of surfaces and meshes are selected the multi-select status bar now correctly splits them instead of listing them all as surfaces. | Fix | Scanner only |
| From Release 2010 Beta 4 to Beta 5 [Aug 11, 2010] (40 changes) | |||
| 6232 | Fixed a crash that would happen when the Dense Stereo tool was chosen with a non-3D surface or non-triangulated PointMesh selected. | Crash Fix | |
| 6235 | Fixed an assert crash that would happen when opening and re-opening a project with shaded or textured projections turned on. | Crash Fix | |
| 6258 | Fixed a crash bug that prevented the Status Report from being output to a text file. | Crash Fix | |
| 6260 | Fixed a crash that would occur after a Cancel during 3D Processing. | Crash Fix | |
| 6263 | Fixed a crash when using the Mark/Pin Imports mode menu item with certain projects. | Crash Fix | |
| 6266 | When creating large quality textures, usually for export, requires swapping to disk the operation is no longer threaded as this could cause an out of memory crash. | Crash Fix | |
| 6267 | A crash no longer occurs when the 3D viewer update quality textures button is used with a project containing mask images. | Crash Fix | |
| 6270 | If a shape vertex was pinned to a point and then pinned to a different point this would corrupt the project causing crashes when the project or old point was deleted. This has been fixed. | Crash Fix | |
| 6231 | Warning dialogs that have a 'do not show this dialog again' check box now have text explaining the do not show status can be reset on the preferences dialog. | Improve | |
| 6236 | The processing dialog has been modified so the text in the property grid will be visible without needing to resize the columns. | Improve | |
| 6237 | When all fields are within the thresholds specified the project tab on the Project review pane now displays text verifiying this. | Improve | |
| 6249 | The Max Residual status bar button/info now shows the id of the Photo on which the point is marked. | Improve | |
| 6250 | The mouse over info/tootip for a Marked Point now shows the photo id of the point's largest residual point mark. | Improve | |
| 6259 | The Calibration Summary in a multi-sheet calibration now shows whether duplicate coded target points have been removed during automarking, which usually would indicate that duplicate targets and/or sheets were used during multi-sheet calibration. | Improve | |
| 6261 | Two aspects of 3D Processing have been sped up - most noticable on processing of big projects. The Solve and Point Stats stages are now slightly faster. | Improve | |
| 6269 | New projects now have their camera station symbol size default to 5. | Improve | |
| 6245 | By default when multiple meshes are selected for modification, if registration/merge is not checked, each mesh will be modified individually. A preference setting can restore this to how things worked previously where just the first mesh selected would have the modifications applied. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 6252 | The density of DSM previews has been increased. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 6234 | If Select All is peformed on a Curve, Edge or Cylinder table, only the objects displayed on that table are selected. Previously all of those object types would be selected. | Fix | |
| 6238 | Switching back to point mesh edit mode from region select mode (while doing point mesh edits) no longer clears the selection. | Fix | |
| 6239 | Clicking on the client area of a 3D view pane will now activate it. | Fix | |
| 6240 | Invert selection during point mesh edit mode now works correctly when doing a region selection. | Fix | |
| 6241 | They hyperlink on the processing dialog that brings up the audit dialog now works correctly. | Fix | |
| 6242 | Fixed a crash that could occur when displaying the error message that appears when trying to activate a license with no activations left. | Fix | |
| 6243 | The help hyperlinks at the top of the External Geometry Explorer panes now work correctly. | Fix | |
| 6244 | The 'Check For Updates' dialog now reappears at startup after the correct number of days (as set in the interval setting on the dialog), whether you do a check for udpates or not. | Fix | |
| 6246 | Dimensions displayed on open photos will update when the scale is updated without needing a repaint. | Fix | |
| 6247 | The Max Residual Status Bar button now disables during Referencing mode to prevent possible selection and referencing problems. | Fix | |
| 6248 | When outputting a comma separated value (CSV) table the name and Photos used columns will be surrounded by quotes so their internal commas do not cause issues with the delimiter. | Fix | |
| 6251 | Imported objects no longer lose their surfaces when imported into a project that contains an affine. | Fix | |
| 6253 | When an individual scale or translate is removed from a project the highlight on the associated objects is now cleared correctly. | Fix | |
| 6254 | Fixed several issues with the scale, translate, rotate DDE commands. | Fix | |
| 6255 | Processing's High Residual Removal was not correctly removing all high residual points. This was most evident in Auto projects. | Fix | |
| 6256 | Fixed Help links in Project Review Pane. | Fix | |
| 6257 | Maintenance Subscription expiry information no longer shown for Trial users as a subscription does not apply to a Trial user. | Fix | |
| 6262 | The export overview tab will now update correctly when the texture size height is adjusted. | Fix | |
| 6264 | Fixed a problem with Table Layouts and column ordering, when column headers were variable (eg showed units). Column headers with units now show "project units" to prevent the problem. | Fix | |
| 6265 | The unused Undo Processing tool removed from the menu. | Fix | |
| 6268 | The state plane coordinate systems zones are now listed on the geographic coordinate system dialog. | Fix | |
| 6233 | The select all command now works with the contour table. | Fix | Scanner only |
| From Release 2010 Beta 3 to Beta 4 [July 28, 2010] (12 changes) | |||
| 6229 | If a quality textured 3D view is open, after processing a dialog will now give the options to update the textures to match the processing result, use no textures (just a shade the model), or keep the old out of date textures. | Significant | |
| 6221 | If a v6 project that has both an axis and a 3-point affine is loaded both affines will be converted to their new formats, with the selected one being active. This also resolves a crash that would happen when closing the project. | Crash Fix | |
| 6222 | Fixed a case where creating or updating quality textures would hang. | Crash Fix | |
| 6227 | Marking images with the 'fast auto-segmenter' option enabled no longer causes a crash. | Crash Fix | |
| 6224 | Going through the mode sequence "PointMesh Edit"->"Region Select"->"Select" will now correctly clear any parts selected during point mesh edit mode which would cause a crash. | Crash Fix | Scanner only |
| 6219 | Fixed some cases where single sheet calibrations would not find all 4 targets. | Fix | |
| 6220 | Fixed several memory leaks. | Fix | |
| 6223 | When the number of cores to use preference setting is set to 1 only a single epi polar resampling thread will be started during DSM. | Fix | |
| 6225 | Fixed the "Check for updates..." tool on the Getting Started panel. | Fix | |
| 6228 | Table views no longer have their selection cleared after processing. | Fix | |
| 6230 | Check for Updates now correctly returns whether an update is available. The date checked is also now properly stored for use with the automated check for updates reminder. | Fix | |
| 6226 | The invert selection command is now correctly enabled during point mesh edit mode. | Fix | Scanner only |
| From Release 2010 Beta 2 to Beta 3 [July 23, 2010] (31 changes) | |||
| 6192 | The 'imported point sub-toolbar' of the External Geometry Explorer has a new tool: 'Highlight selected point" that takes the first 3D point or import point that is selected in a photo, 3d view or table and highlights its associated point in the EGE. | Significant | |
| 6204 | Fixes for Backup Project tool: Fixed a crash when destination folder is invalid or not writable, and updated the confirmation when back up successful. | Crash Fix | |
| 6210 | With some pairs, In some cases where the geomentry is extremely weak, DSM could run out of memory and crash. This has been resolved. | Crash Fix | |
| 6215 | Switching to add an external object while the import of a coded target file is selected will now clear the selection when the coded target file radio button is disabled. | Crash Fix | |
| 6216 | Fixed several cases where deleting an axis affine object from the external geometry explorer could cause a crash | Crash Fix | |
| 6191 | Fixed a case where an assert crash would happen when all textured surfaces were deleted from a 3D viewer and then point meshes were turned on. | Crash Fix | Scanner only |
| 6187 | During auto-projects and calibrations the summary dialog will now update the marking status as each photo is marked. | Improve | |
| 6188 | If you renumber a point making it the largest in the project the next point created will be the next number in the sequence instead of skipping a number. | Improve | |
| 6189 | Changing the ID number (on the properties pane) of a coded point will now prompt warning that the point will be uncoded before being renumbered. | Improve | |
| 6190 | The 3D view of ImportedObjects in the external geometry explorer now uses the same highlight color as the list and other views. | Improve | |
| 6193 | World files can now be output with orthographic images with geographic and non-geographic coordinate systems. | Improve | |
| 6195 | New icons for PhotoModeler and PhotoModeler Scanner, as displayed on the Start Menu, desktop and quick launch shortcuts, and program title bar. | Improve | |
| 6196 | If there are insufficent oriented photos to run automatic referencing a warning is now displayed explaining the problem. | Improve | |
| 6205 | The add/remove dialog now show a count of how many photos are in the project. | Improve | |
| 6186 | If a pair of photos fails to generate a mesh, instead of aborting, the remaining selected photo pairs will run and an error message will be displayed to indicate the failed pair. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 6194 | Fixed a problem with the maintenance date check for certain locales. | Fix | |
| 6198 | After calibration finishes, the visibility pane now shows the sections to enable/disable appropriate project items (without having to switch modes to force an update). | Fix | |
| 6199 | Newly added import image formats are now listed in the open dialog file filter. | Fix | |
| 6200 | When re-running a calibration without re-running the marking stage the point counts for each photo from the previous marking run will now be displayed correctly. | Fix | |
| 6201 | The "Check For Updates..." tool on the Options menu now works. | Fix | |
| 6202 | Fixed a formatting problem on some activation confirmation dialogs. | Fix | |
| 6203 | Various cosmetic fixes and labelling changes in the installer. | Fix | |
| 6206 | Adding an invalid image file to a project no longer causes issues with the add/remove dialog. | Fix | |
| 6207 | Fixed a problem when loading the minimum number photos into a calibration project - the minimum number of photos no longer contradicts the minimum number of references (default preference setting) for the 1st autoreferencing stage. | Fix | |
| 6208 | Status report for calibration projects no longer shows erroneous warning about an incorrectly set up camera. | Fix | |
| 6209 | Fixed a problem where a camera could be set to 'Calibrated' without completing the calibration routine. | Fix | |
| 6211 | Processing / bundle adjustment should now be more consistent and less error prone when cores > 1. | Fix | |
| 6212 | Projects with fiducial cameras and photos with fiducial marks will now process correctly. | Fix | |
| 6213 | Automarking now checks for sufficient memory and will reduce the number of threads running if insufficient RAM is available. | Fix | |
| 6214 | On the add external geometry dialog the windows 'x' button now does the same thing as the close button. | Fix | |
| 6217 | The text displayed when trying to overwrite a camera in the library no longer shows the mark-up tags. | Fix | |
| From Release 2010 Beta 1 to Beta 2 [July 14, 2010] (20 changes) | |||
| 6169 | Fixed problems with the Print Calibration Sheets dialog where the maximum target size check wasn't working or could cause a crash. The Help link was also updated. | Crash Fix | |
| 6175 | Changes to 3D viewer library which should improve issues with textures and coin related errors. | Crash Fix | |
| 6171 | Using the flip point mesh command while a textured mesh is displayed in the 3D view no longer causes a crash. | Crash Fix | Scanner only |
| 6168 | A progress bar now comes up when a large number of photos are added to a project. | Improve | |
| 6182 | The number of decimal places shown for Dimensions on photos can now be set on Preferences (General page). | Improve | |
| 6184 | The colors for Dimensions/Annotations can now be set on Preferences (Colors page). The text, line and arrow colors can be set. | Improve | |
| 6166 | Fixed a problem with a date conversion specific to certain locales that caused an invalid expiry warning on startup. | Fix | |
| 6167 | Selecting an Imported Point now displays it's measurement in the Measure Pane. | Fix | |
| 6170 | The Dimension Mode tool is now enabled all the time, not just when a photo window is active. It only acts on point marks in photos, but you can enter the mode regardless of active window. | Fix | |
| 6172 | Sometimes adding a rotation would not take affect, this has been fixed. | Fix | |
| 6173 | The 3D view's with-in-model axis-display now shows correct scale and position when a project with the axis active is loaded. | Fix | |
| 6174 | When a calibration project has the calibration process redone (including the focal estimate step) the lens distortion is cleared to zero - thereby giving more consistent results on recalibration. | Fix | |
| 6176 | The within model axis now updates correctly when a translate is adjusted or added. | Fix | |
| 6177 | Open tables no longer duplicate rows after processing. | Fix | |
| 6178 | When the scale is changed using the scale/rotate wizard the measure pane will now use the newly entered scale for future measurements. | Fix | |
| 6181 | There is now an option to run a single vs multi-sheet calibration on the calibration dialog. The preference setting has been removed. | Fix | |
| 6183 | "Beta" shown in build information on Getting Started and About dialog | Fix | |
| 6185 | If a pair of photos cannot be setup for DSM, for example they do not share sufficient points or overlap, a warning will now explain why the DSM cannot be run. These types of pairs will also be excluded when the 'best pairs' button is used. | Fix | |
| 6179 | Pressing "Preview..." on the Dense Stereo dialog twice in a row no longer causes problems the second time. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6180 | Doing a preview and then canceling the Dense Stereo dialog no longer changes the default sampling rate. | Fix | Scanner only |
| From Release 6.4.0 to 2010 - Beta 1 [July 7, 2010] (135 changes) | |||
| 266 | An information box now appears when the mouse cursor hovers over items displayed in photos (eg points, lines, edges etc). In addition the text on the status bar when an item is selected has been reformatted to be easier to read and to follow the style in the new pop-up information boxes. | Significant | |
| 1281 | The Scale/Rotate Dialog has been combined with the Imports Explorer and is now called the External Geometry Explorer. This explorer imports, defines and controls known external measurements and coordinate systems. It handles scales, translate, rotate, control points, check distances, check points, pinning, static import, multi-point affine and coded target coordinate files. The External Geometry Explorer gives the user control over which coordinate system is active, checks for conflicting coordinate definition types, highlights the groups or individual of objects used for the coordinate definition, and provides control over the project display units. | Significant | |
| 1334 | The file export function now allows selection of specific layers to be included (or excluded) from export. | Significant | |
| 1515 | A new advanced setting on the 3D viewer (on by default) draws the 3D points using the same symbols as their 2D marks as displayed on photos. | Significant | |
| 1737 | Closed curves that are circles (have their circle property on) now have a center point that is visible in 3D and can have lines, surfaces and curves-through-points attached to their center point. | Significant | |
| 2081 | It's now possible to add layers and materials automatically to a project, via a 'profile' set up in the PhotoModeler ini settings file. You can define a set of layers and materials so that new projects will always contain them. See the Help dcumentation under the "Materials and Layers" section for instructions on how to set up the list of settings. | Significant | |
| 2281 | Object Point numbers can now be changed/edited in the Properties pane. | Significant | |
| 2773 | A new multi-sheet calibration method has been added which allows you to print a series of coded target sheets that can be placed in any configuration (e.g. larger area, off plane, etc). The calibration that results can be more reliable and can more closely resemble your scene. The option to use the traditional single sheet calibration is still available. | Significant | |
| 2774 | A new Project Review pane identifies potential project, point and photo problems and weaknesses. While the pane is open suspect points and photos are highlighted for easy identification. The thresholds for weakness are determined by selecting a project type, these thresholds can be editing to match individual expectations. | Significant | |
| 2801 | The new External Geometry Explorer provides import and manual entry of check distances. When a ‘check distance’ is assigned to 3D points in the model, the difference between the defined check measurement and the project’s solved distance is displayed in the Check Distances Table. These distances can be used to verify a model’s quality. | Significant | |
| 3029 | A new "Polyline" property on a curve-though-points switches the 3D geometry from a curve interpolated through the points to a polyine with straight line segments between the points. Surfaces that use the curve as part of their definition will also be modified to take the new curve shape into account. | Significant | |
| 3592 | When an object or mark is selected (photo, table, 3d view) any referenced objects or marks will highlight in a new 'sub-selection-highlight' color. Easy to see the references with just a click. | Significant | |
| 5593 | When multiple CPU's or cores are available the following areas will perform faster due to threading: Automarking, Idealizing, Epipolar resampling, Processing (points-based-bundle), and some meshing steps. | Significant | |
| 5637 | A new invert selection command has been added. This command also works while in Point Mesh edit mode. | Significant | |
| 5689 | Added support for geographic coordinates and systems (geoids and datums). Import and entry of points-based affine transforms defined by geographic coordinates is available through the new External Geomentry Explorer. Loading old projects that have geographic coordinates defined for Google Earth export will ask if the geographic coordinates should be converted to the new form. Exporting to Google Earth no longer requires coordinates to be defined during export, instead the project’s geographical coordinate system is used and converted to the correct system as needed. | Significant | |
| 5749 | A new copy button has been added to the Measure Pane that sends the measurements to the clipboard. | Significant | |
| 5836 | A project’s coordinate system rotation can now be based on a single camera station. Y is up, X is to the right and Z is opposite of camera station view vector. Or, if you set this up, and choose “view from top” in the 3d viewer you will be looking at the scene the same way the camera station’s image is aligned (or you’ll be looking at the back of the camera symbol if it is turned on). | Significant | |
| 6017 | New Image file formats supported: Jpeg2000 (*.jpx/*.jp2), Paint Shop Pro (*.psp), HD Photo (24-bit) *.hdp/*.wpd, and Portable Bitmap (.pgm). | Significant | |
| 6021 | The Create Dense Surface dialog now includes a preview button that will generate a scan at a much lower density to help determine if the settings are apropriate for a full scan. | Significant | |
| 6036 | A new button on the toolbar causes all open photos to zoom to the same level. The zoom will center around any selected items on the photo. A preference controls its default state. | Significant | |
| 6043 | Dimensions on Photos. A new Dimension Mode allows the user to select any two points on a photo to create a dimension line with measurement information in project units. The dimension annotation on the photo gets updated if either point position changes. The tool also allows you to enter non-dimension annotation text on the image. Dimensions and annotations are stored with the project. A new Dimension Table shows (and allows edit via Properties) all dimensions in a project. Dimension lines and annotations export to file or clipboard when using the File / Print or Output Open View... command or similar right click menu command. | Significant | |
| 6048 | Visual styles/skins can now be applied in PhotoModeler. PhotoModeler ships with a few visual style files, but others can be found online. The .msstyles and .cjstyles file formats can be loaded in the Preferences dialog's Theme and Layouts page. | Significant | |
| 6096 | Holding down the Alt key while over the rotate control of a 3D viewer, then moving the mouse will now adjust the position of the 'side' light. A great way of inspecting surface variations. | Significant | |
| 6102 | A new setting on the 3D viewer visibility dialog allows the end points of edges to be made visible. These end points act like other 3D points and can have surfaces and lines attached to them. | Significant | |
| 6104 | Holding down the CTRL and ATL keys while clicking on an image thumbnail will open that photo and close all others. | Significant | |
| 6131 | A new backup command has been added: “File / Backup Project” will copy and compresses (to .zip) the project (.pmr) and all the project’s image files. Useful for packaging a project for storage or for transmission. | Significant | |
| 6142 | The new External Geometry Explorer provides for import and entry of check points. When ‘check points’ are assigned to 3D points in the project the difference between the check points’ x,y,z and the project’s x,y,z solution is displayed in the Check Points Table. These checks can be used to verify a model’s accuracy. | Significant | |
| 6144 | If a geographic coordinate system is defined in a project, a World file can now be output along with any created ortho-photo. | Significant | |
| 6147 | A project’s coordinate system can now be defined with 3 or more points (x,y,z positions). In previous versions the point-based affine (coordinate system definition) allowed for only 3 points. The check points table will show how far off the defined coordinates are from the affine transformed model. This is different from control points (which PM always had) that perform non-affine (shape changing) transformations. | Significant | |
| 6148 | A project's scale can now be defined using 1 or more known distances (previously just 1 scale). The check distances table will show how far off the defined measurements are from the affine transformed model. | Significant | |
| 6149 | For users unsure of how to define a coordinate system using the new External Geometry Explorer, a new scale/rotate wizard can walk them though the steps. | Significant | |
| 6150 | A project’s coordinate system (affine transform) can now be defined by importing a file defining coded target IDs and their position. Importing this file will setup the appropriate objects in the External Geometry Explorer and associate them with existing coded target IDs - like an automated coordinate transform for coded target projects. | Significant | |
| 6152 | The point symbols in the 3D viewer now look like the mark symbols. Points marked with the sub-pixel target marker will show as '+'s, non-sub pixel marks will be 'x's, etc. | Significant | |
| 6156 | A new dialog box allows you to print calibration sheets directly from within PhotoModeler (this applies to both the installed .pdf small/large single sheet calibration sheets, and the sheets for the new multi-sheet calibration method). | Significant | |
| 6157 | A new animated system tray icon has been added to display status/progress of an ongoing process. A Preference setting controls whether the icon displays. | Significant | |
| 6158 | A new Maintenance Contract System has been implemented. The expiry of the maintenance contract is displayed on the Getting Started dialog as well as in the License dialog. | Significant | |
| 6159 | The 3D viewer options dialog has a new setting under the advanced branch: "Special surface rendering". In 'wireframe overlay' mode the 3d view shows a wireframe of a surface's triangle composition on top of the rendered surface, and in 'wireframe, hide obscured lines' mode the 3d view shows a hidden - line wireframe view of the surface . | Significant | |
| 6161 | A new fit curve through selected points tool allows the automatic creation of a curve thought a group of selected points. | Significant | |
| 6164 | During referencing mode a new reference connector line is drawn between the source mark and the mouse this makes it easier to see the location of the source mark. The connector line can be turned off on the preferences dialog. | Significant | |
| 5915 | New meshing steps are faster and somewhat simplified. | Significant | Scanner only |
| 6034 | PointMeshes and contour lines can now be projected back onto photographs. | Significant | Scanner only |
| 6049 | A Contour Table has been added, which displays each individual contour in a table with these columns: Associated PointMesh ID, Axis, Height, Material, Layer, User name. | Significant | Scanner only |
| 6143 | PointMeshes are no longer stored as external .dat files and instead are included with-in the .pmr file. | Significant | Scanner only |
| 6160 | PointMeshes have a new property "Down sample factor" that controls the size of the images when creating the mesh. This value is entered in the advanced settings area of the create dense surface dialog. A settting of zero (the default) will compute the optimal resolution to run at, increasing the speed when creating low density meshes. The value is stored with the mesh and can be displayed on the PointMesh table. | Significant | Scanner only |
| 5889 | Fixed a crash that would occur with Automatic Marking when there was an area in the image with a lot of fine detail - like a texture with many small circle-like objects that were not targets. | Crash Fix | |
| 6011 | A region selection in a 3D view with confidence regions displayed no longer causes a crash. | Crash Fix | |
| 6047 | An assert crash no longer occurs if an export is done and the only point-type data selected for export is surface draw. | Crash Fix | |
| 6058 | Fixed a crash that would occur when turning off projected surfaces for a project that was saved with projected surfaces on. | Crash Fix | |
| 6083 | Fixed a crash that could occur in PMV when switching epochs while part way through creating an object. | Crash Fix | |
| 6120 | Fixed a crash that could happen during IGES export if the registered user or company name was blank. | Crash Fix | |
| 6122 | Fixed a crash that would happen when a path surface was connected to a shape edge and it was converted to a NURBS surface or exported to IGES with the automatic NURBS conversion preference turned on. | Crash Fix | |
| 17 | Precisions for Camera Stations are now shown in the Photo Table (for position xyz and angles opk). Certain settings of the project’s coordinate system affine may cause these to show as ‘n/a’. | Improve | |
| 202 | The option to included coded points in automatic referencing is now displayed on the Automatic Referencing Dialog instead of just as a preference. | Improve | |
| 314 | Curves, Cylinders, Edges, Surfaces and Measurements now all have an editable name property which can be used to help identify the object. This name is displayed on the tables, status bar and properties pane. | Improve | |
| 668 | Project back up files (_ver) are now stored in a sub folder called "Project Backups" so the main folder where your pmr is stored is less cluttered. The maximum number of backups per project is still set as a preference. | Improve | |
| 1118 | A new command allows the creation of a photo set from photos NOT showing the selected items. | Improve | |
| 1154 | Auto-triangulate now has an option to just use points on a specific layer. | Improve | |
| 1282 | The 3D Export Dialog has been redesigned with a tabbed interface and a new overview that displays what objects will be exported. The dialog will also 'remember' the last export format used and default to it for subsequent exports. | Improve | |
| 2874 | When control point data is introduced to an already oriented project a warning now explains you should run re-orient all. Next time processing is run there is a prompt to choose the ‘orient all’ option. | Improve | |
| 3544 | The Output/Print View command has been added to the right click pop up menus for photo, table and 3D. When the tool is clicked, the "Print or Output Current View" dialog appears with the current view selected. The command remains on the File menu as well. | Improve | |
| 5206 | Holding the Ctrl key in the 3D viewer and moving the mouse horizontally or vertically will rotate the model around a single axis. A preference setting controls which axis is rotated around. | Improve | |
| 5491 | The Preferences Dialog's Referencing page now has a setting to control the maximum number of Reference Helper lines that appear during referencing. | Improve | |
| 5580 | Reference Helper lines (epipolar lines) can be shown/hidden using a new tool on the toolbar: 'Show/Hide Reference Helper Lines', using the default short-cut key of 'H' | Improve | |
| 5643 | Improvements to FBX export: photo textured materials can now be exported and projects with multiple layers will now export correctly. | Improve | |
| 5853 | The status bar now displays object IDs when 3 or fewer of an object type are selected (used to show just one ID number). | Improve | |
| 5997 | After completing an ortho-photo export a new prompt allows it to be opened in an associated program. | Improve | |
| 6018 | The Processing Successful Dialog now displays the final error and the largest residual as a quick summary of the projects quality. | Improve | |
| 6024 | Using the mouse scroll wheel over a non-active photo or 3D view will cause that window to become active so you can adjust its zoom. | Improve | |
| 6030 | Point IDs and other text drawn on photos are now default to a transparent background with the text outlined in black. Preferences / Image tab has a setting to control this. | Improve | |
| 6032 | RAD offset points can now be used for Scale/Translate/Rotate. | Improve | |
| 6033 | During referencing mode the potential residual of the point being referenced is displayed on the referencing pane. | Improve | |
| 6042 | It is now possible to replace a photo using the Photo Properties dialog. When the filename is selected, the ‘Replace Photo’ verb appears. Click the verb to browse to the new image file. Your camera orientation for that photo will not change. This is useful when you do repetitive projects using cameras in fixed positions or if you wish the change the image for texturing (again if taken from the same view point). A new DDE command ReplacePhoto does the same thing. | Improve | |
| 6044 | The cursor no longer flickers when over a 3D Viewer. | Improve | |
| 6061 | The Yes/No and Warning dialogs have been redesigned with new fonts, colors, exit choices, and sometimes reworded for clarification and ease of use. | Improve | |
| 6063 | A new preference (off by default) automatically increases the angle threshold for texturing if no suitable photo is found. | Improve | |
| 6064 | The preferences for photo display symbol colors now contain an additional 15 color choices. | Improve | |
| 6075 | Using the mouse scroll wheel while the alt-zoom window is open changes the zoom factor of the window. | Improve | |
| 6078 | A Photo View’s title bar now displays the same icon as the thumbnail in the Photo Control to indicate if the photo is oriented, set to use but do not adjust, or set to do not use. | Improve | |
| 6079 | The 3 step license move procedure has been deprecated. License moves are now carried out using the online method (return license to server and retrieve at new machine). If an offline method is required, please contact Tech Support. | Improve | |
| 6085 | A new preference setting for the 3D viewer controls the type of stereo view. Depending on your stereo hardware you can choose from: anaglyph, quad buffer, interleaved rows or interleaved columns. | Improve | |
| 6094 | The PMV 3D export now defaults to not including precision values as these are only calculated for the processed epoch. The ini setting [PMV] ExportPrecision can be used to turn this export back on. | Improve | |
| 6095 | The PMV 3D export now includes the delta change in a points position from the previous epoch. This output can be turned off using the ini setting [PMV] ExportDeltas | Improve | |
| 6105 | The 'tree control' used in the 3D Viewer Options Dialog, Preferences, and Status Report has been replaced with a faster and more reliable control and improved to be consistent with the operating systems style. | Improve | |
| 6108 | The auto-marking summary dialog now displays the time it took to perform the requested marking. | Improve | |
| 6111 | When the Idealize tool has finished processing it now shows how long it took to run. | Improve | |
| 6116 | When processing fails, you now get a choice to keep the most recent iteration of the solution (even if it might be wrong). When a project is unstable and processing almost converges but not quite, you may want to see the result to see how good it is. | Improve | |
| 6125 | The 3D Viewer of the External Geometry Explorer now zooms in and out when the mouse scroll wheel is used. | Improve | |
| 6129 | Added DDE command: SetProjectOptions, which allows you to toggle background processing, and set the Project Marking Quality. | Improve | |
| 6130 | Folder Selector dialog now shows "New folder" button. | Improve | |
| 6138 | The calibration dialog now displays the largest (as well as the RMS) residual when a calibration completes. If either of these values are over a threshold a warning about a poor calibration will be displayed. | Improve | |
| 6140 | The Region Select tool is no longer disabled if a photo or 3D viewer is not active. | Improve | |
| 6153 | Speed of optimization processing (bundle adjustment) has been improved. In addition parts of the algorithm have been threaded. Optimization is now faster for most projects and even faster on multi-core processors. | Improve | |
| 6154 | The Add/Remove Photos dialog has been made more reliable. The look and functionality has not changed. | Improve | |
| 6155 | The Add/Remove Photos dialog and wizard add photos pane has changed to show more photos that are in the project and browsing for images to add is now done using a standard windows open dialog. | Improve | |
| 6163 | In PMV if the starting epoch for tracking has no marks a warning message now comes up explaining why tracking cannot run. | Improve | |
| 5664 | Individual contours can now have their own material, layer and name. These, plus some read-only properties, are displayed on the status bar and properties pane. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 5875 | Merging projects that contain PointMeshes no longer requires a new file name to be entered during merge (because the PointMesh is now part of the .pmr project file, as opposed to a separate .dat file). | Improve | Scanner only |
| 5993 | PointMeshes no longer have a 'texture from photo’ property and instead are textured from standard materials. This means large images will be resampled to fit with-in memory, and file formats that are not supported directly as textures will be converted for use by the PointMesh. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 6052 | PointMeshes and contours can now be exported like any other object (using standard 3D Export Dialog) without the need for any special conversion or alternate menu option. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 6045 | By default, during PointMesh Edit Mode, once in region select mode it will remain there. A setting on the Dense Surface Preference page controls if this or the old behaviour (of automatically switching out of region select once the selection is complete) is used. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 6053 | The DDE Commands Export and Export3DDXF now support output of PointMeshes. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 6056 | PointMeshes are now automatically assigned a new single-photo material based on the first photo used in the DSM pair. The material is named DSMPhoto#. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 6082 | During creation of a PointMesh auto-save versions of the project are longer created by default | Improve | Scanner only |
| 6098 | If the preference units for loading a PointMesh from a file have not been set the units for the load will be treated the same as the current project units. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 6151 | The meshing component no longer requires an independent license key and online license movement is now enabled for Scanner. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 2862 | Switching to a new mode while a lasso region selection is partly drawn in a 3D viewer will now remove the lasso region. | Fix | |
| 3972 | The application installer has been redesigned and made quicker. | Fix | |
| 5616 | The Edit Photo Sets command has been moved from the File menu to the Edit menu. | Fix | |
| 6022 | When multiple photos with different mask file names are selected the property grid will now correctly display 'varies'. | Fix | |
| 6025 | Table highlight color improvements: all color highlights now display on the table - the selection color for the tables matches the photo and 3D view color set in the preferences. When a table is in-active the selection color remains the same. - The selection color for the tables matches the photo and 3D view color set in the preferences. - When a table is in-active the selection color remains the same. | Fix | |
| 6054 | Tables now update properly when a layer or material updates (e.g. layer or material name etc). | Fix | |
| 6059 | When assigning square images (w=h) to a camera the check if the image has been rotated differently from the camera calibration is no longer done. | Fix | |
| 6062 | The largest residual columns on the photo and point tables now update correctly when the 2nd to last mark of a point is deleted. | Fix | |
| 6067 | Using two edges as a scale now works correctly. The scale is the shortest distance between the two edge segments. | Fix | |
| 6073 | To make them more visible, confidence regions were displayed at 10x the point’s precisions. This scaling has been changed so when 3D Viewer’s point confidence region scale factor is 1.0 the error ellipses are sized to match the true precision values. | Fix | |
| 6077 | Alert pop-ups no longer come up during calibration as the project state is still being solved. | Fix | |
| 6086 | Fixed a problem DXF exporting RGB colours on Point entities. | Fix | |
| 6092 | The control mark status bar no longer displays residual values when the photo is un-oriented. | Fix | |
| 6093 | The "Autofocus when Referencing" Preference setting now properly controls whether a photo autofocuses (or becomes active when mouse over) when referencing. | Fix | |
| 6100 | The "No Processing can be done..." processing error message has been revamped to be more descriptive. | Fix | |
| 6101 | When running processing without global optimize turned on, points set to ‘do not use in processing’ will correctly have their positions recalculated based on the new camera station positions from the orientation step. | Fix | |
| 6103 | The Search Distance setting on the RAD Project Preference page can now be set appropriately. | Fix | |
| 6109 | When the only change done to a camera is adjusting its name, the project’s 3D data will no longer be recalculated. | Fix | |
| 6112 | Point angle information (maximum, minimum and average angle of all referenced points) is now shown in the Quality section of the Project Status Report. | Fix | |
| 6121 | Previously the Delete command was only enabled when a photo, 3D view or table was active. It is now enabled (when a delete-able item is selected) regardless of which pane is active. | Fix | |
| 6124 | For type 1 PMV projects the option to process each epoch after coded target marking now defaults to off. | Fix | |
| 6126 | Fixed a problem with the returned values from DDE's GetMarkedPointByIndex when the marked point not 3D. | Fix | |
| 6128 | Fixed a problem with the DDE:SetPhotoStation when using the Roll form parameter. | Fix | |
| 6065 | After converting a PointMesh to a surface the ‘visibility on photos’ control now updates correctly. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6097 | Importing point data from an exported point table as a PointMesh now correctly applies the projects scale/rotate and the selected import units. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6110 | A message dialog that allows you to turn off automatic processing now comes up if "Create Dense Surface..." is selected when automatic processing is turned on. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6113 | The Load PointMesh dialog now correctly lists .txt and .asc files in the default "all files" filter. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6117 | A warning is now displayed if the sampling interval is too high for the resolution of the images selected for DSM. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6118 | The term "sampling rate" has been replaced with "sampling interval". | Fix | Scanner only |
| 6123 | A check for low angle triangles, that happened after importing a PointMesh, now defaults to off. This was causing some mesh imports to fail. If the low angle triangles cause issues with texture display, the meshes can be re-triangulated using the modify mesh command. | Fix | Scanner only |
| From Release 6.3.3 to 6.4.0 [May 21, 2010] (7 changes) | |||
| 6139 | New DDE Command: MergeProjects. The merge parameters are obtained from the 'Merge Description File' which describes the projects to merge and the transform method. See Help document for information on the syntax and Merge Description File format. | Significant | |
| 6134 | Updates to how the Modify Mesh command works: simplified number of options and increased the speed. Meshing results may not be identical to previous versions but should be similar or improved. | Significant | Scanner only |
| 6135 | PhotoModeler Scanner licenses can now be moved via the Online method. The license can be 'checked-in' to the activation server which allows it to be re-activated on a new machine. | Significant | Scanner only |
| 6133 | Fixed a bug that caused automarking a high noise image to crash. | Crash Fix | |
| 6136 | Ortho exports can now optionally export to a text file (in addition to the ortho image file). To enable the text file export add the following setting to your ini file's [General] section: OrthoToTextFile=TRUE | Improve | |
| 6137 | Features added to help diagnose unusual startup problems. | Improve | |
| 6132 | Fixed a problem with the residual values (e.g. in the return of DDE:GetMarkedPointByIndex) when a point is not 3D. | Fix | |
| From Release 6.3.2 to 6.3.3 [April 22, 2009] (5 changes) | |||
| 6003 | The Help document has been updated to a) fix a broken link from the License Move type selection dialog, and b) to update the Tightness glossary definition. | Doc Problem | |
| 6005 | The DSM summary dialog now shows how long the PointMesh creation took. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 6007 | The 3D viewer multi-select popup menu now optionally displays the PointMesh name as well as it's ID number. This can be turned off on the Dense Surface panel of the preferences dialog. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 5999 | Right clicking in a 3D viewer over multiple objects and selecting a camera station now correctly enables the menu items. | Fix | |
| 6009 | Point Tightness (as a %) is now properly calculated in projects where units are not in metres. | Fix | |
| From Release 6.3.1 to 6.3.2 [April 1, 2009] (13 changes) | |||
| 5820 | Added Network Floating Licensing to PhotoModeler Scanner. It is now possible to purchase a Network Floating License to run PhotoModeler Scanner on multiple 'seats' on a network. | Significant | Scanner only |
| 5925 | Project merge now supports PointMeshes and PointMesh surfaces. The meshes are transformed to the coordinate system defined by the merge and saved along with the project. | Significant | Scanner only |
| 5897 | Answering 'yes' to rebuild photo textures in a 3D viewer after processing but then quitting the texture build no longer causes a crash. | Crash Fix | |
| 5901 | In some cases after doing a reference, going back to the source photo and then back to the destination pressing escape would cause an erroneous "This point has already been referenced" warning. | Crash Fix | |
| 6000 | Fixed a crash that could happen, more frequently when RAD dots were involved, during auto-marking of coded targets. | Crash Fix | |
| 5930 | When photos with weak geometry are used as a DSM pair the "Trim Setup" phase could appear to hang, this has been resolved. | Crash Fix | Scanner only |
| 5903 | The text explaining that field calibration cannot be run when there are 2 cameras in a project has been updated to reference the correct preferences page. | Fix | |
| 5914 | With some images the first point in each epoch would not be tracked into the following epoch, this has been resolved. | Fix | |
| 5924 | With the release of Google Earth 5 the .kmz format is now called "Google Earth" while the .kml format has been renamed to "Google Earth 3". Both formats will load into Google Earth 4 or 5, but Google Earth 3 will only load .kml files. | Fix | |
| 5927 | Zip files no longer appear in the Photo Selector. This is a revision of a fix included in v6.3.1. | Fix | |
| 5928 | Projects that only run one stage of processing no longer allow field/self calibration to be turned on. | Fix | |
| 5929 | Re-sub-pixel marking now works correctly even when the image targets fall with-in the auto-marking parameters. | Fix | |
| 6001 | With highly unusual camera parameters such as a negative principal point idealizing the image now works correctly. | Fix | |
| From Release 6.3.0 to 6.3.1 [March 11, 2009] (26 changes) | |||
| 5872 | New DDE commands added - AddLine (adds a line between 2 existing points), ShowPhoto (displays a photo in PhotoModeler UI), IdealizeProject (Idealizes a project, its photos and camera), ExportOrthoFromPoints/ExportOrthofromSurfaces (exports an ortho photo based on a region defined by 3 points or a region defined by all textured surfaces, respectively). | Significant | |
| 5862 | Deleting a mark while the 2D mark table is showing any of the 3 residual columns no longer causes a crash. | Crash Fix | |
| 5869 | Deleting a shape that is part of a project's scale/rotate definition no longer causes a crash. | Crash Fix | |
| 5882 | Adding a layer in a PMV project no longer causes a crash. | Crash Fix | |
| 5888 | During imported point modification if you add a point and then delete the newly added point this will no longer cause a crash when applying the modifications. | Crash Fix | |
| 5846 | The Point Table now has a new columns listing the photos on which a point is marked. The existing "Photos" column has been renamed to "Photos (used)" to indicate that it only lists the photos on which the point is marked that are set to be 'used' (Photo Properties' Processing action setting). The new "Photos (marked)" column lists all of the photos on which the point is marked, regardless of the photo's setting. The new column can be made visible by right clicking on the title area and enabling by column name, or via the Table Layouts dialog. | Improve | |
| 5855 | Changed tool title of "Create Point Cloud from selection" to "Fit NURBS Surface to selected points" to avoid confusion with DSM tools. | Improve | |
| 5856 | A new preference allows you to control the color of the printed lines dividing the coded targets. | Improve | |
| 5873 | A project and/or folder on disk with many photos in it caused delays in the Add/Remove Photos dialog while updating. The dialog update is now more efficient and speed has been improved. | Improve | |
| 5886 | Fixed a problem with Table Layouts that could cause a table index to be invalid. | Improve | |
| 5890 | Reworded the EXIF camera option on the Camera Source pane in the New Project Wizard. | Improve | |
| 5834 | If targets are marked before running Idealize, the red target outlines will be cleared after Idealizing. | Fix | |
| 5850 | If the original image is added back into an idealized project and then idealize is re-run the resulting image will kept unique with a name _idealized(x) where x is a unique number. | Fix | |
| 5857 | The photo audit display will now correctly list 'zero fiducials used' when a project has no usable photos. | Fix | |
| 5858 | When the video tutorials are not installed on your hard drive and your PhotoModeler CD is not in the CD drive the warning message providing a link to the online video tutorials now correctly goes to either the PhotoModeler or PhotoModeler Scanner page. | Fix | |
| 5865 | An optional warning explaining that all control data will be reset is now displayed when the OK button is pressed on the Modify Imports dialog. | Fix | |
| 5868 | A crash no longer occurs when deleting a shape during shape marking mode. | Fix | |
| 5876 | Doing a Project Merge with projects that contain PointMeshs could result in a corrupted project and is no longer allowed (a message appears and merge stops). | Fix | |
| 5877 | Added new controls to allow resetting of some user optional warnings. | Fix | |
| 5878 | The dialog explaining how to use the area select tool for the minimum diameter on the auto-marking dialog now asks you to select the smallest target. | Fix | |
| 5891 | The 'remove high residual points and photos' feature added to 6.3 was intended to be off by default for normal (non-automated) projects. Background processed projects did not handle this correctly. In addition orientation would set photos to "do not use in processing" unexpectedly. These are all now corrected and tutorial 1 (an example of a startup manual project) now completes correctly as video describes. | Fix | |
| 5893 | Zip files no longer appear in the Photo Selector. This is a revision of a fix included in v6.3.1. | Fix | |
| 5900 | The default target type preference now allows the full range to be entered. | Fix | |
| 5902 | Old projects using the user set coded type will now have the number of bits read from the preferences when loading. | Fix | |
| 5905 | A bug, introduced in 6.3.0, prevented some shapes from solving. This has been resolved. | Fix | |
| 5907 | If the automarking dialog had been opened switching focus between panes was slow under Windows Vista. This has been resolved. | Fix | |
| From Release 6.2.4 to 6.3.0 [January 19, 2009] (58 changes) | |||
| 5917 | The Automarking and Target Creation dialogs have been redesigned to accomodate the other signficant changes listed here. These changes mostly affect users of the coded target module. - The automarking and autoproject dialog have changed but will still work with old projects and non-ringed CT codes. The AM dialog requires fewer parameters and takes less time to search images. There may be some minor differences between which targets the old algorithm found and the new one. Generally the new one should be better. - To try the new Ringed Automatically Detected (RAD) targets you will need to use the new create Target dialog. This dialog also allows you to create ringed dots, dots and old style CT targets. You can now choose a target range to output rather than always creating the whole set and optionally create paired RAD targets for offsets (see Offsets below). The output from the dialog can be either to the printer or a postscript file. | Significant | |
| 5918 | The Auto-project wizard has been changed so the first pane asks if you want to do a "RAD auto project" or not. If you choose not to, the wizard will prompt your for various parameters in a similar way to the old auto-project wizard. If you choose a RAD project all you need to do is select your images that contain RAD targets (a camera will be matched if you have one in your library or you will need to load a camera) then the wizard will run through and create the project for you. The settings the wizard uses are controlled on the new Preferences pane "RAD Project". Fully automated 3D point measurement is now just a few simple steps. | Significant | |
| 5919 | A new type of offset point has been added (called RAD Offset). Unlike other offsets these are not an absolute values and do not need the project to be scaled. Instead the offset point will be created at a distance of 1.5 times the distance between two RAD targets. The codes for the offset will always be a sequential pair starting with an odd number. Eg. 1-2, 3-4,..., 997-998. To add these offsets to your project go to Project->Coded target offsets... and a new fixed type "RAD Offset" will be at the top of the list. Choose the Apply button and you will be prompted for a range of targets to be used for offsets. This allows you to use a mix of single targets and paired offset targets in one project. For example targets 1-100 could be used as regular individual targets while targets 500-552 could be paired offsets. RAD Offsets can be automatically added during an auto-project. Setting the range of targets to be considered for offsets on the Preferences "RAD Project" pane will add offsets during a RAD autoproject. When setting up a non-RAD auto-project, one of the wizard panes will prompt you for the optional addition of offsets and the offset range. RAD offsets can also be added by manually selecting the odd point and on the properties pane choosing "RAD Offset". | Significant | |
| 5920 | A new high-residual point removal step has been added to processing. This step will go through and automatically unreferenced/remove marks and points that are causing problems with processing. This is done in an iterative process when high errors are found. This step will run during auto-projects but is off by default for manual projects - it can be enabled for manual projects on the Process pane of the Preferences dialog. | Significant | |
| 3362 | Some preference fields now have arrows on their spin controls. | Crash Fix | |
| 3447 | The selected photo set on the photo control will no longer reset after processing. | Crash Fix | |
| 3602 | On the processing dialog turning global optimize off and then back on will re-enable the field/self calibration check box. | Crash Fix | |
| 3929 | The axis drop downs on the ortho photo creation dialog are now large enough to display two 4 digit point ids. | Crash Fix | |
| 5785 | Fixed a case where PhotoModeler could shut down unexpectedly after merging a project that contains constraints. | Crash Fix | |
| 5811 | Corrected a problem that would cause PhotoModeler to fail to launch on some systems when Data Execution Prevention (DEP) was enabled for all programs. | Crash Fix | |
| 5818 | Fixed a problem where the Check and Repair dialog could appear when using DDE Automarking and then DDE Process immediately after. | Crash Fix | |
| 5848 | Fix to the Offset Point table to update properly when adding/removing/disabling offsets in project. | Crash Fix | |
| 5799 | Visibility settings for photos (eg 2D and 3D projected item visibility) now get stored with the project so when a project is reopened the visibilty settings will be restored. | Improve | |
| 5843 | Yes to All now available when removing mulitple photos with points | Improve | |
| 5844 | Reworded a warning when scale/rotate points selected are weak due to low angle. | Improve | |
| 5795 | A new preference (on by default) includes the RGB color data with an exported XYZ point mesh text file. The file is one point per line X Y Z R G B. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 450 | The RLE compressed bitmap option for textured exports has been removed. | Fix | |
| 994 | When camera station projections are turned on the station that took the photo is now correctly ignored during selection. | Fix | |
| 1349 | 3D camera stations now hide/show based on the photos use in processing setting. | Fix | |
| 1362 | Selecting a projected Import Point when its ID is displayed now correctly highlights the ID as well as the point. | Fix | |
| 1644 | The layer drop downs on the auto referencing dialogs are only enabled when the 'in layer' radio button is selected. | Fix | |
| 2164 | Manually adjusting a camera station position or angle updates any open 3D viewers correctly. | Fix | |
| 2218 | When exporting surfaces as a polymesh in DXF the export summary dialog will now display the correct number of exported surfaces. | Fix | |
| 2736 | If you change tag visibility in a 3D viewer the same setting will be used for newly opened 3D views. | Fix | |
| 5648 | Fixed two problems with Field Calibration: 1) 'Fh' now gets solved properly when disabling 'Fw' calculation in Preferences; 2) The correct camera is solved when an unused default camera is included in a project with another camera. | Fix | |
| 5768 | Camera Viewer Dialog now updates when using arrow keys to scroll through cameras in the list at left. | Fix | |
| 5769 | Increased the size of the quality indicator fields on the cameras dialog so that larger residual values will display correctly. | Fix | |
| 5776 | Surface draw points will no longer display any residuals. Previously, due to rounding issues, they could display extremely tiny ones. | Fix | |
| 5777 | If you try to assign a control point to a frozen object point a warning dialog comes up giving the option to un-freeze the point. If this is done through DDE the control point assignment will return failed. | Fix | |
| 5779 | Fixed a problem with selection in tables that could occur when a 3DViewer was open, and a table was re-activated during selection. | Fix | |
| 5783 | Fixed a case where adding 2 new unknown photos to a project would assign the same inverse camera to both photos instead of making a copy of the camera. | Fix | |
| 5784 | If an exif estimate camera is flagged to be copied for inverse camera this will now be indicated in the calibration type text. | Fix | |
| 5787 | Photo mark display updates correctly when deleting or undoing the delete of a point when Target Areas are also displayed. | Fix | |
| 5788 | Removed the Preparation top level progress that came up during processing. This removes the confusion of which dialog is active (the progress or the processing dialog) and also allows the help document to open correctly from the processing dialog. | Fix | |
| 5789 | DDE Commands fixed: SetPointName no longer inserts a leading space in the point's name and ProjectPoint properly converts points when a scale/rotate is defined with non-metre units. | Fix | |
| 5790 | Added a new DDE command : " Activate or Deactivate the translate/scale/rotate of the project affine transform. "ActivateTSR translate scale rotate" where translate scale and rotate are '1' to activate or '0' to deactivate Returns "1" if successful or "0" if not. Fails when: - Incorrect number of parameters - No project is loaded - No affine is set on the project, - or an invalid t/s/r is set to active" | Fix | |
| 5793 | Re-running the calibration marking stage will clear the previous marks faster and remove the pop-up warning. | Fix | |
| 5797 | Fixed an issue where surface draw lines would not export to a .dxf file unless regular lines were also selected for export. | Fix | |
| 5802 | Setting an object point with an offset back to no offset will remove the offset from the offset point table. | Fix | |
| 5803 | Pressing Ctrl-A to select all in Offsets Table has been fixed. | Fix | |
| 5808 | Fixed an update problem in the Add/Remove Photos dialog when moving photos into a project by clicking the All>> button. | Fix | |
| 5812 | Fixed a problem with the display of very small negative values in a table. | Fix | |
| 5814 | Fixed a problem with Edge, Cylinder and Curve marking when marking is done on a photo window that is 'floating' off of the main application window. | Fix | |
| 5817 | Fixed a problem with DDE Translate command so that it now uses project units when assigning the 3D coordinates to a point. | Fix | |
| 5819 | When duplicate codes (from coded points) are found during automarking (whether truly duplicates or by error) the point with the best circular target fit will now be kept (instead of all duplicate marks being removed). There is an ini setting to change back to old behaviour. | Fix | |
| 5825 | Projects with control points with large values can now have triangulation and DSM run successfully. | Fix | |
| 5827 | "Points" heading on Visibility on Photos pane now correctly changes to black text (from grey) to indicate points marked in project. | Fix | |
| 5829 | Marking a shape in a PMV project no longer causes a crash. | Fix | |
| 5831 | When choosing 're-orient all' in the Processing dialog, and there is at least one photo that has less than six references, orientation now correctly uses resection orientation on only the photos with less than six references, not on all photos in the project. | Fix | |
| 5833 | Coded target points can no longer be moved by the arrow keys, code points must always be sub-pixely marked. | Fix | |
| 5835 | The status report now has a new message displayed when the largest residual is greater than the warning threshold but the largest residual of points used in processing is below the threshold. | Fix | |
| 5837 | The status report will open up correctly on the processing done dialog if quit is hit during orientation. | Fix | |
| 5839 | Outputting a table view to a file that already exists will only warn about the file overwrite once. | Fix | |
| 5840 | Fixed a case where the imports explorer could lose it's title bar and/or the list view would flash repeatedly. | Fix | |
| 5842 | When 2 stage orientation is used the status report now displays the total number of photos oriented in both stages instead of just the second one. | Fix | |
| 5847 | If coded target offsets are added to or changed on a selected point the properties pane will update without needing to re-select the point. | Fix | |
| 5809 | The save point mesh dialog shows what type of information can be saved to each format. Eg. [Poly] (only triangulated data can be save) or [Points/Poly] both non-triangulated and triangulated meshes can be saved. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 5822 | Resetting the Orientation preference pane to defaults now sets the low angle check for Scanner to off. | Fix | Scanner only |
| From Release 6.2.3 to 6.2.4 [September 2, 2008] (7 changes) | |||
| 5748 | Additional checks added during activation to prevent invalid code entry. | Improve | |
| 5810 | Table creation made more efficient, which reduces time to display tables especially in big projects. | Improve | |
| 5750 | Images with the same name but different full paths now get displayed in the Add/Remove photos dialog. | Fix | |
| 5757 | Fixed a case where some surface draw points could choose the incorrect triangle. | Fix | |
| 5761 | The Minimum Target Size Ratio preference setting now properly resets to new the default on the Preferences dialog. | Fix | |
| 5763 | Fixed a problem that was introduced in v6.2.3 that could cause general PhotoModeler slow-downs on certain machines. | Fix | |
| 5764 | Conversion of PointMesh surfaces to NURBS surfaces has been improved. | Fix | Scanner only |
| From Release 6.2.2 to 6.2.3 [August 15, 2008] (58 changes) | |||
| 464 | Improvements to measure: - Selection of a point and a line type object (lines, cylinders, edges) now shows the distance between the point and the line segment as well as the distance between them if the line is extended infinitely. - Selection of two line type objects (lines, cylinders, edges) now shows the distance between the segments as well as the distance between them if they were extended infinitely. - Selection of a point and a surface shows the distance between them. If the surface is a single triangle the distance between the point and the plane defined by the triangle is also displayed. | Significant | |
| 3545 | For better formatting in applications like Notepad, lines in a table exports to a file or clipboard are now optionally terminated with a carriage return and a new line. | Crash Fix | |
| 3808 | The "Properties of Selected Photo(s)..." tool has been added to the toolbar on the Photo List. | Crash Fix | |
| 5682 | Using the undo button after deleting an imported object with marked control points no longer causes a crash. | Crash Fix | |
| 5685 | Exporting an animated .gif file with a single key frame no longer causes a crash. | Crash Fix | |
| 5697 | Fixed a crash that would happen when clicking on the extra parameters info area of constraint definition dialog where no parameter was listed. | Crash Fix | |
| 5716 | Fixed a crash that could happen when importing a DXF file with a poly line entity that had no 70 field defining its type. | Crash Fix | |
| 5737 | Auto-triangulation will no longer crash if an extremely skinny triangle is created. | Crash Fix | |
| 5744 | Undo is no longer enabled after pressing OK after assigning a layer using the "Put selected objects into" control on the Layer dialog. This action is not undoable. | Crash Fix | |
| 5746 | - Removing an imported point or line from an imported object when a non-imported surface was attached to the line or point will no longer cause a crash. | Crash Fix | |
| 5692 | When using any of the point mesh modification tools a final step to validate the created data is run to ensure no invalid triangles are created during meshing. | Crash Fix | Scanner only |
| 5676 | Fixed a crash that would happen when DSM settings or project setup was such that no point mesh could be created. | Crash Fix | Scanner only |
| 5677 | Fixed a case where removing one or more photo from a project when that photo had been selected for DSM processing would cause a crash. | Crash Fix | Scanner only |
| 210 | An optional dialog now displays how many surfaces were created when auto-surfacing is run. Also, if no surfaces could be created because the wrong types were selected a warning is displayed. | Improve | |
| 5713 | Added the ability to edit the NetShare folder for Network Floating License installations. | Improve | |
| 5739 | The 3D viewer options dialog now has 2 buttons to turn on or off visibility for all layers. | Improve | |
| 5741 | The PointMesh Modification summary shows which meshes are selected and if no merging step is chosen, which single mesh will be modified. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 1261 | When a non-3D point is selected for post processing modification a warning now explains which point it is and that fitting can not be done when non-3D data is selected. | Fix | |
| 1873 | Trying to create an ortho photo when the only textured surface is parallel to the view now gives a warning message. | Fix | |
| 2599 | Cylinder marks can now be selected using their mid-point line. | Fix | |
| 3286 | Outputting a photo view at 'full size' now correctly positions the projected data when it is turned on. | Fix | |
| 5577 | A new tool on the Help menu's PhotoModeler on the Web submenu provides direct access to the registration page on the PhotoModeler website. | Fix | |
| 5603 | Angle checks during orientation (used to determine suitable photo pair orientation) have been made more efficient and a progress bar now displays during the angle check steps. | Fix | |
| 5640 | When a ground plane is hidden in the 3D viewer it is no longer used in the reset or center-around calculation. | Fix | |
| 5659 | The zoom in and out modes now work in the 3D viewer as well as on photos. | Fix | |
| 5661 | Layer and Material Combo boxes on toolbar now correctly populate when a project is created in the new project wizard. | Fix | |
| 5666 | Improvements to table sorting, when a column contains 'tag values, 'n/a' or is blank. | Fix | |
| 5667 | The PMV transfer dialog no longer shows invalid check boxes for mark types. | Fix | |
| 5671 | Activating a different window while an alt-zoom window is displayed now closes the alt-zoom window instead of leaving it up where it can become 'stuck' or multiple alt-zoom windows could end up being displayed. | Fix | |
| 5723 | Fixed a problem with deleting a camera from a multilpe camera project, when the deleted camera was formerly the project's default camera. | Fix | |
| 5678 | The Measurements Pane will now update when tabbed but hidden (if closed the pane will not update). There is an ini setting to control this, but by default the pane will update when visible or tabbed: [General] UpdateHiddenTabbedMeasurePane=TRUE | Fix | |
| 5679 | The residual magnification on the Visibility on Photos pane is now updated correctly when a project is opened since the value is stored with the project. | Fix | |
| 5684 | The way 3D viewer animation output handles rotations has been changed so rotations are less 'bouncy'. | Fix | |
| 5686 | A progress dialog no longer shows when opening multiple photos at once using the Open Selected tool on the Photo List Pane's toolbar. To quit the opening of the photos, you can press Esc key. | Fix | |
| 5687 | Added support for import of 2D DXF files (come in with all points at z=0). | Fix | |
| 5691 | Fixed a crash that would occur when doing a referencing propagation with certain PMV projects. | Fix | |
| 5694 | A problem with setting the focal length of a camera in the Calibration Wizard, for a camera with no exif, has been fixed. | Fix | |
| 5700 | If an unexpected assert crash occurs an attempt to save back-up of the project is made to prevent the loss of data. | Fix | |
| 5701 | Fixed a case where silhouettes drawn to the extreme left or right of an image may not intersect. | Fix | |
| 5719 | The Preferences dialog's 3D Viewer/Selection and Navigation page's Help link now takes you to the correct page in the Help file. | Fix | |
| 5709 | Fixed steps involving the cameras dialog and fiducial cameras that could cause a check and repair warning. | Fix | |
| 5710 | 3 Point Scale Rotate no longer shows invalid default values when not defined | Fix | |
| 5711 | A warning (user optional) now appears when trying to add a camera to the camera library after calibration if the images used during calibration do not have EXIF information. this is because a camera without EXIF information cannot be automatically matched. | Fix | |
| 5712 | Improvements made to Inverse Camera projects when adding photos to Inverse Camera projects. The added images are set up based on the type of image added. If images are not automatically matched or assigned to the default camera and not an Inverse camera you now have options in a new dialog to Browse for a new associated camera, create a new inverse camera or assign the default camera | Fix | |
| 5714 | If you enter an invalid key in the manual registration dialog it now correctly stays on top of the application window. | Fix | |
| 5717 | When calling the DDE "Process" command with field calibration paramaters, the Add Camera to Library Yes/No prompt no longer appears when processing completes. | Fix | |
| 5718 | DDE TableExport command now correctly uses the TableDecimalPlaces setting in the ini file. | Fix | |
| 5721 | The camera assignment grid now comes up during the new project wizard, when a mix of mismatching photos is selected whether tthe photos have EXIF information or not. | Fix | |
| 5722 | Improved DXF importing to handle some DXF formats that previously would not load. | Fix | |
| 5730 | Photos added by the DDE AddPhoto command that do not include an image file name will no longer bring up the image missing dialog when a project is loaded or processed. | Fix | |
| 5731 | Fixed the formatting and wording of some start-up failure messages. | Fix | |
| 5733 | Changed the way PostScript coded target files are generated - should be more compatible with some post script readers, printers, converters. | Fix | |
| 5734 | The Browse... button on the Generate Coded Targets dialog now shows a Save Dialog instead of an Open File Dialog and will also correctly append a .ps extension if one is not included. | Fix | |
| 5740 | When printing a sheet of coded targets the bottom 'crop' lines are now spaced correctly. This helps when cutting vertical strips of targets. | Fix | |
| 5705 | OBJ files are now correctly filtered when using the Load PointMesh command. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 5715 | A PointMesh modify tool is available for filtering out isolated points to help remove noise data. It is the first step in the Modify Mesh dialog. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 5726 | a) When the user input depth range was very large the region scanned was sometimes incorrect and this could cause 3D noise. b) if the trim or extents got close to the black idealized border of an image, some noise could be introduced. c) when the trims on the photo pair being processed did not match well, for some surface types, a blanket of noise that 'fell' away from the camera could be created. All three of these problems have been fixed or improved. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 5735 | The registration and merge step now defaults to merge only. | Fix | Scanner only |
| From Release 6.2.1 to 6.2.2 [May 28, 2008] (35 changes) | |||
| 5921 | A new licensing system has been implemented, providing more flexibility and new licensing options (eg network floating, license moving options etc). The change will generally be transparent to current users. | Significant | |
| 5922 | A new preference controls the number of reference helper lines displayed: all, 1 or none. | Significant | |
| 5673 | The export animation buttons are now disabled when no keyframes have been added. | Crash Fix | |
| 5630 | Fixed a case where using the alt-zoom window while automatic processing was turned on and referencing between two oriented photos could cause a crash. | Crash Fix | |
| 5940 | Fixed a crash bug that would occur after deleting a layer and then saving the project. | Crash Fix | |
| 5942 | Fixed an assertion crash bug when an ortho photo projection could not be properly set up. Warnings now appears instead of the assertion. | Crash Fix | |
| 5947 | Fixed a crash that would happen if a new photo was dropped into a project and undo was then selected. | Crash Fix | |
| 5949 | Fixed a crash that would happen if you opened a new photo while in pick region mode of auto-marking. | Crash Fix | |
| 5950 | Deleting a layer assigned to an offset point will no longer cause a crash. | Crash Fix | |
| 5954 | PMV type 2 projects no longer crash if processing runs with more than 1 photo open. | Crash Fix | |
| 5958 | Corrupt projects containing a camera station with no photograph no longer cause a crash on load. | Crash Fix | |
| 5972 | Fixed a problem that could cause a corruption when two points both in the same curve-through-points were referenced together. | Crash Fix | |
| 5982 | Fixed a crash that would occur when removing a photo from a project if that photo was part of a pair currently selected for use on the DSM dialog. | Crash Fix | Scanner only |
| 5955 | PMV projects now default to having automatic processing turned off. | Improve | |
| 5956 | Drag and drop of a PhotoModeler project .pmr file onto a photo or other pane now closes the current and opens the new project appropriately. Drag and drop also now works for PMV (.pmv) project files. | Improve | |
| 5656 | Since the dialog can only display information for a single camera at a time, the cameras dialog no longer allows multi selection in the camera list. | Fix | |
| 5670 | The photo/camera match check compares more EXIF fields for better camera matching where possible, but the additional EXIF fields are check only on cameras calibrated in version 6. | Fix | |
| 5941 | Fixed a problem with the Days Left in Trial dialog which at times prevented the progress bar from updating. | Fix | |
| 5943 | Fixed a conflict with the 'M' shortcut key. 'M' now opens the Measure pane, while 'Ctrl-M' opens the Materials dialog box. | Fix | |
| 5944 | Fixed a problem on the Orientation Problems dialog where the 'Set to Do not use...' radio button would not work when set as the default option (ie when angle check option disabled). | Fix | |
| 5945 | Performance and other improvements made to the file- view and other controls on the Add/Remove photos dialog. | Fix | |
| 5946 | Fixes on the Cameras dialog to correctly update when editing or copying an Inverse Camera, and correctly updating the display when deleting a camera from the list. You are now also prompted when editing the parameters of an Inverse Camera to confirm the change. | Fix | |
| 5948 | When exporting surfaces the imported surfaces check box now correctly disables imported surfaces from being included in the export. | Fix | |
| 5951 | Fixed a problem with the initialization of the Recent Projects list in the File menu which after reinstalling. | Fix | |
| 5952 | Fixed a problem assigning the default cameras to images without EXIF information, when the default camera was an edited Inverse Camera. | Fix | |
| 5953 | PMV menu now correctly enables after the automarking dialog closes. | Fix | |
| 5957 | PMV type 2 projects clear the static point highlight correctly when removing static points. | Fix | |
| 5959 | Pressing ESC during referencing in certain cases no longer causes an incorrect warning message. | Fix | |
| 5960 | Fixed a problem with target template set up that could cause problems when processing certain PMV projects. | Fix | |
| 5961 | Fixed a problem that prevented two photo auto-referencing from running properly in some circumstances. | Fix | |
| 5962 | Merging two projects with offsets in one or both projects in a certain order no longer causes a project corruption. | Fix | |
| 5963 | The object point status bar now shows the correct units for the angle (degrees). | Fix | |
| 5964 | The Orientation Problems dialog no longer has a close (x) button at top right which prevents PhotoModeler from getting into a strange state if clicked. | Fix | |
| 5967 | Fixed warnings related to idealizing photos that are associated with cameras that are already idealized or have not been calibrated. | Fix | |
| 5674 | Floating point values on the DSM dialog will now be saved and restored correctly on systems using European numeric formating. | Fix | Scanner only |
| From Release 6.2.0 to 6.2.1 [May 15, 2008] (25 changes) | |||
| 5973 | A new tool allows the spliting of point meshes. Any points or triangles selected during point mesh edit mode will be removed from their current meshes and added to a new one. | Significant | Scanner only |
| 5974 | Point mesh edit mode now allows selection, center around and deletion of point mesh triangles. | Significant | Scanner only |
| 5975 | Added undo and re-do of point mesh edit deletes. | Significant | Scanner only |
| 5976 | During point mesh edit mode if you delete all the points or triangles of a mesh the mesh object will be removed from the project. | Significant | Scanner only |
| 5977 | Added new columns to the Point Mesh table, to show new data about the Point Mesh: # Contours, Sampling Rate (and units used), Depth Range Above and Below, Texture Type, Extents, and Matching Region Radius. Useful when experimenting with different DSM settings. | Significant | Scanner only |
| 5968 | Prevented a crash during VRML export that could occur with very large projects with a certain number of weakly solved points | Crash Fix | |
| 5985 | Fixed a crash that would occur if trying to create a point mesh when the project is stored on read-only media. | Crash Fix | Scanner only |
| 5966 | The warning dialogs showing a hyperlink have been reformatted to better display text and link. | Improve | |
| 5971 | The maximum zoom setting for windows and alt-zoom has been increased. | Improve | |
| 5979 | A few tool tips reworded, typos fixed and changes made to information shown on program properties. | Improve | |
| 5984 | When the online activation dialog appears on launch, if no internet connection can be made, the offline activation dialog appears, but you no longer have to re-enter your activation code on the offline activation dialog. | Improve | |
| 5988 | The PhotoModeler Demo now shows the Idealize tool on the Project menuand when clicked displays information about the process. Demo images are already idealized, so this tool in Demo mode is for information only. | Improve | |
| 5990 | Improvements to the way licenses are handled when installed on multiple accounts on the same system. | Improve | |
| 5978 | The order of the tools on the DSM toolbar has been changed so that the tools are placed in the sequence in which they are typically used. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 5980 | Automatic/background processing is disabled when all projects are created with PhotoModeler Scanner. | Improve | Scanner only |
| 5986 | DSM Tutorial sample proects have been updated to include features from this patch (new table columns, and idealize exif flags). | Improve | Scanner only |
| 5523 | When Idealizing an image, the image's EXIF data is now updated to indicate that the image was idealized. The camera is updated too to show that it is idealized and so when the idealized camera is added to the Camera Library, camera matching can be done where idealized images are matched with idealized cameras. Further, if there is a mismatch when assigning idealized cameras and photos, a warning will come up. | Fix | |
| 5650 | An unused tool was removed from the Referencing Source Photo right click popup menu. | Fix | |
| 5965 | The Point audit all dialog now closes when manual processing is run and disables automatic processing while it is up. | Fix | |
| 5969 | Fixes to the Project Status Report's "Precisions / Standard Deviations" section: Photo Xc, Yc, Zc variables refer to Camera position, not Target center point; deviations no longer shown for photos set to "Use but no adjust", and Photo values and standard deviations no longer show units since these report values are not subject to the project's scale/rotate. | Fix | |
| 5970 | Cases where an approximate size of 1 meter was assumed (point tightness %, etc.) has been updated to use the projects bound box extents. | Fix | |
| 5981 | The PointMesh table updates a PointMesh's surface id when the associated surface is deleted. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 5983 | Updating the units for the DSM depth range will also update the summary text on the depth range group. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 5989 | Fixed a problem with the Meshing License component of the manual License transfer mechanism. | Fix | Scanner only |
| 5991 | DSM trim mode will not allow other actions until the trim is complete or canceled. This prevents some actions that would cause a crash with a 1/2 finished trim. | Fix | Scanner only |
| From Release 6.1.8 to 6.2.0 [April 21, 2008] (2 changes) | |||
| 5632 | The layer dialog has 2 new check boxes: 'Put selected objects into selected layer', and 'In all 3D views, hide the selected layer'. This is very useful for hiding a PhotoModeler object in the 3d Viewer. Eg. Select the object, press the Layers button on the toolbar, create a new layer, check the two new check boxes and press OK. Your object will be put in a new layer and hidden from all 3d views. | Significant | |
| 5669 | Right clicking on a table header and clicking "Create/Edit tables..." selects the correct table layout when the dialog opens. | Fix | |
| From Release 6.1.7 to 6.1.8 [December 20, 2007] (2 changes) | |||
| 5618 | PMV (Type2) Static points highlight fix. Points now unhighlight when removed from the static points list. | Fix | |
| 5636 | Assigning a layer to an imported surface now works correctly when a 3D viewer is open. | Fix | |
| From Release 6.1.6 to 6.1.7 [December 11, 2007] (15 changes) | |||
| 5588 | DDE Automark paramter problem has been fixed. The command now checks and resolves the invalid condition where Coded Targets are selected with non-sub-pixel marking. | Crash Fix | |
| 5604 | Fixed a crash that could happen if automarking was used and a project is processed twice in a row without interacting with a photo in between. | Crash Fix | |
| 5594 | Fixed a crash that could happen in 6.1.6 when a project with control points failed to process due to bundle stability when the project status report was opened. | Crash Fix | |
| 5574 | A new ini setting has been added to set the default distance constraint which can save time when adding the same distance repeatedly. This setting can be added to the [ProjectDefaults] section of the PhotoModelerPro6.ini file: [ProjectDefaults] DefaultDistanceConstraint=1.0 | Improve | |
| 5570 | A slight improvement to the speed of 3D viewer surface creation. | Fix | |
| 5572 | Table layout and viewing fixes. Fixed a memory leak that could occur when displaying various tables, and addressed a problem with the update of an Point Offset Table layout. | Fix | |
| 5583 | Camera stations highlight correctly when their IDs are turned on. | Fix | |
| 5587 | Sub-pixel target marking now works with non 24-bit images. | Fix | |
| 5589 | Point ID size control on 3D Viewer Options now has a lower limit | Fix | |
| 5606 | Tables with checkboxes can now be sorted by the checkbox column. | Fix | |
| 5561 | Fixed a problem where a 3D Viewer's layer's visibility was not always properly set when it was created while the 3D Viewer was open. | Fix | |
| 5579 | Skipping the last object selected for referencing will change the cursor to the advance to next photo allowing you to automatically open the next photo after skipping the final reference object. Previously this would only happen after marking the final reference object. | Fix | |
| 5584 | Enhancements to how the progress works during image saving and loading. | Fix | |
| 5595 | Some fixes to make shapes that are fit-by-points in a points-based projects work better: 1. When a shape is tied to 3D points in a points-based project, and background processing is 'off', the shape's check mark in the ShapeExplorer now goes yellow when shape is sufficiently marked. 2. When a shape is tied to 3D points in a points-based project, and background processing is 'on', the shape is now automatically solved when the shape is sufficiently marked. 3. Camera station orientations in a points-based project, that has shapes marked, are no longer solved again by the shapes algorithm. Only points-based bundle adjustment algorithm modifies camera station parameters in a points-based project. 4. Shapes with slanted edges (like a wedge) would not solve correctly when tied to 3d points. 5. The error bar dialog is no longer stuck on the screen with no way to close it after processing a points-based project with shapes in it. | Fix | |
| 5597 | When a pane is floating it now appends [Floating] to the title bar so it is easier to identify. | Fix | |
| From Release 6.1.5 to 6.1.6 [October 10, 2007] (33 changes) | |||
| 5516 | Improvements to MAXScript export. All surface types, cylinders, and imported lines can now be exported. When cameras are exported an image plane displaying the associated photo can optionally (control on the preferences dialog) be included. Additionally, the default cameras format size and image resolution will be output as the rendering sizes. Point size and a name prefix can be set under the export area of the preferences dialog. | Significant | |
| 5923 | When selecting a 3D surface point the status bar now displays the surface number used to calculate it's 3D position. | Significant | |
| 5527 | Fixed a crash bug that could occur after a certain set of steps involving a camera matching, a new default camera, referencing points, and then adding a new photo. | Crash Fix | |
| 5559 | Fixed a problem with adding a user name to a silhouette when a photo open. | Crash Fix | |
| 2709 | Changes to improve the speed of auto-triangulation and fixed a crash that could happen when a large set of points was selected for auto-triangulation. | Crash Fix | |
| 3305 | The Zoom to Fit All tool is now enabled even when no Photo panes are active. The tool can be used to fit all photos even if another window type (a 3d viewer pane for example) is active. | Crash Fix | |
| 5535 | Various changes have been made to the wording and display of table related menu items. The Table Generator menu item has been reworded to "Create/Edit Tables..." to help indicate that table layouts can be created AND edited. This "Create/Edit Tables..." menu item now appears on the various table right click popup menus and at the top of the column list when setting column visibility. The "Column Visibility" right click menu item has also been renamed to "Show/Hide Columns". | Improve | |
| 293 | A new problem/suggestion will appear in the Project Status Report in certain situations when a project fails processing due to instability often caused by long focal length cameras. The suggestions also notes a setting in Preferences that can be modified to help in these cases. | Improve | |
| 5532 | # The automatic matching of imported Photos to Cameras in the Camera Library has been improved. When the Library contains multiple cameras with identical exif parameters (e.g. calibrations for more than one camera of the same make, model and focal length), you are now prompted to select a camera from a list of all the matching cameras. | Improve | |
| 2820 | Auto-triangulation changes: 1) 2D auto triangulation now works correctly using the marks on a selected photo. 2) 2.5D auto triangulation no longer double sides the triangles instead the triangles face the majority of the cameras in the project. | Improve | |
| 5526 | The Orientation Problems dialog has been reworded and will more specifically identify the source of an orientation problem where possible. | Improve | |
| 5537 | A new preference setting has been added to the Preferences Dialog's Process page (Optimization Termination section) call "Bundle Stability Measure". This setting can be increased when processing is failing (also applies to calibration), often due instability inherent in long focal length camera projects. | Improve | |
| 5542 | DXF import now reads the 3D poly mesh data sub type of POLYLINE entities. | Improve | |
| 5544 | Angle checks were added in Version 6 to help low angle projects find a better initial orientation photo pair. However, especially in certain types of projects with low angle photos (eg stereo pairs), the low angle checks could cause a project to fail orientation prematurely. Changes have been made so that orientation is re-attempted without angle checks if orientation fails. You have the option to try this on the Orientation Problems dialog box which appears if PhotoModeler cannot orient all of your photos. | Improve | |
| 5514 | Idealizing a project with many point marks is now much quicker. | Fix | |
| 5536 | Trial Expiry warning now appears when your trial has expired whether the Activation Dialog is set to appear at startup or not. | Fix | |
| 5549 | When the option to activate a photo with mouse-in is activated (Preferences), a change was made to make the activation more efficient. | Fix | |
| 5550 | A highlight problem fixed when a table item selected after the table is activated with a mouse in. | Fix | |
| 5551 | Fixed a problem with silhouette selection and updates in the Silhouette table. | Fix | |
| 5554 | Selection in the 3D viewer has been improved when multiple items are clicked (so that the list of potentially selected appears). | Fix | |
| 5557 | Changes to how imported points are deleted to fix two scenarios that could cause a crash. | Fix | |
| 5510 | Fixed a recently introduced bug in the Coded Target Auto-project wizard where the Next button was not enabled properly on the first two wizard panes. | Fix | |
| 5513 | Another level of progress feedback has been added to automarking (used in Calibration and Automarking functions). It appears when there is a large amount of edge detection done (due usually to noisy images or complex background patterns). This means the program will not appear 'hung' when marking such images. | Fix | |
| 5521 | Fixed a problem with layer visibility in the 3D Viewer, when a 3D Viewer remains open after processing takes place. The 3D Viewer Options dialog's layer grid is now updated correctly once processing is complete. | Fix | |
| 5525 | Fixed a crash that could occur when clicking on the alert pop-up warning when a certain percentage of the projects points are calculated by approximation. | Fix | |
| 5529 | Fixed a crash when unreferencing multiple silhouette marks while a silhouette table was open. | Fix | |
| 5530 | Changes to column visibility, size of table etc no longer cause the selected rows to unhighlight. | Fix | |
| 5540 | Silhouettes no longer have a double sided property on the Properties pane. | Fix | |
| 5547 | Surface draw on surfaces with triangles that have one or more points behind the camera now pick the correct triangle. | Fix | |
| 5548 | The Select and Show Highest Residual butoon on the status bar is no longer enabled during referencing, which prevents inadvertent referencing when items are selected in the source view. | Fix | |
| 5553 | KMZ export has been reformatted to allow for uploading of these files to the Google 3D warehouse. | Fix | |
| 5555 | Fixed a problem when selecting a camera from the camera library drop down selector, the correct camera was not always assigned to the camera. | Fix | |
| 5558 | Improvements to DXF import of polylines. | Fix | |
| From Release 6.1.4 to 6.1.5 [July 30, 2007] (47 changes) | |||
| 5490 | # Added a new export file format: FBX - supports export of points, surfaces and camera positions (for use in camera matching in 3d modeling programs that support FBX import). | Significant | |
| 3849 | Added user-configurable navigation features to the 3D Viewer. One can now zoom, pan, and rotate the 3d model by mouse-down-dragging anywhere in the 3D Viewer window. You can configure the role of each mouse button on a new page in Preferences, 3D Viewer, Selection and Navigation. | Significant | |
| 3938 | # A new 3D Viewer option allows you to display the camera station symbol and 'image planes' at the same time. | Significant | |
| 5498 | # The surface draw settings on the 3D viewer and export options have been split into points and lines making it possible to view only surface draw lines or points. The option for IDs has also been update to affect points, surface draw points and offsets. | Significant | |
| 5502 | If a project file appearing on the recent project list on the Getting Started Panel was renamed or moved, a crash can no longer occur when attempting to open the missing project. | Crash Fix | |
| 5486 | The Switch Vertex tool on the Shape Explorer's toolbar is enabled only when in Shape Marking mode, which prevents other tools from enabling inappropriately. | Crash Fix | |
| 5495 | A corrupt import file, where a line or surface triangle has duplicate points, can no longer corrupt the PhotoModeler project. If a non-compliant line or surface is found in the import file, it will not be imported. | Crash Fix | |
| 3427 | Trying to add a folder together with an image file to a project using the Choose Photos dialog no longer causes an error or crash. A folder cannot be added to PhotoModeler, only image files. | Crash Fix | |
| 4052 | Fixed a problem during referencing that would prevent the referencing selection to advance while target marking in the destination photo. | Crash Fix | |
| 4060 | Fixes made in referencing so that non-referenceable items (such as surface draw items, Curves from points, lines) do not remain selected and cause problems when selected in the source view. | Crash Fix | |
| 4066 | The calibrator's summary text was reformatted slightly for easier readability. | Crash Fix | |
| 4118 | Some minor grammatical edits made to some warning/error messages. | Crash Fix | |
| 5499 | Fixed a crash bug when moving or deleting a point attached to a curve through points that defines two or more surfaces. | Crash Fix | |
| 5483 | Fixed a crash bug when a curve through points selected (3D projection or in 3D Viewer) in the source view while referencing. | Crash Fix | |
| 5489 | The Help Document was updated to account for changes to various dialogs and features. | Doc Problem | |
| 3593 | The default material is now set up a bit differently for single photo projects created in the Wizard. If a photo texture material is assigned to a surface, the texture will always appear, even if the camera angle causes texture distrotion. | Improve | |
| 4051 | A Help button was added to the message that comes up after calibrating when a camera can be added to the Camera Library. | Improve | |
| 4062 | A new shortcut to the PhotoModeler application data folder is written to the My Documents/PhotoModeler path to provide easier access to PhotoModeler application data, such as the Camera Library, Shape Library etc. | Improve | |
| 5467 | 3D Viewer preferences have been split into two pages in the Preferences Dialog to make room for new navigation settings, and neater organization of settings. The two new pages in the 3D Viewer section are called "Display" and "Selection and Navigation". | Improve | |
| 5503 | When processing fails, the Status Report no longer describes an edge related problem even after all edges deleted from the project. | Fix | |
| 5501 | Fixed a crash that could happen the very first time you enter referencing mode if items are already selected on the non-active view. | Fix | |
| 5500 | A few issues when setting up and working with a fiducial calibration project: -wizard no longer shows Finished button prematurely -the Fiducials pane now activates when an appropriate photo activates -the Check/Repair dilaog now longer appears when saving a project -fixed a crash bug when setting up a project using the wizard more than once in the same after a certain set of steps. | Fix | |
| 5484 | Some of the hints appearing at the top of wizard panes have been shortened and/or edited for clarity. | Fix | |
| 22 | Ctrl-A (Select All) now works on the Photo Table. | Fix | |
| 5487 | A manually oriented photo (eg where the position/coordinates are entered manually) now correctly allows surface draw measurmnent if a valid surface is projected onto it. | Fix | |
| 1277 | Fixed a problem with the wait cursor and reworded the warning that comes up when Quick Referencing two already referenced items. | Fix | |
| 5470 | The display of very small values (ie <1.0E-10) in tables has been changed so that they appear as 0.0 instead of an exponent. This is in conjunction with existing ini setting which controls when exponents are shown and when they're not: [General] TableExponentThreshold=0.00001 | Fix | |
| 2530 | Images that are not 24bit can now be idealized. The idealized image will be converted to a 24 bit image regardless of the color bit depth of the source image. | Fix | |
| 3441 | The Instruction Bar (the bar at the bottom of the application window showing instructions for current mode) now correctly updates when switching modes with no photos open. | Fix | |
| 3466 | The PMV page on the Preferences dialog is only available if the module is installed. | Fix | |
| 3481 | The Help button on the Camera Type pane of the Wizard when setting up a calibration project now brings up the correct Help page. | Fix | |
| 3935 | When going into Shape marking mode (from the Marking menu), if the Add Shapes toolbar becomes visible (if it wasn't visible already). | Fix | |
| 3948 | When enabled in the wizard, Field Calibration now only runs on second stage processing when running a Coded Target Auto-project. | Fix | |
| 3950 | The Process (Optimize) button shown when a Shapes project is open now shows the correct tooltip. | Fix | |
| 4018 | The Tag Selected and Clear Selected Tags tools are no longer enabled if no points are selected. | Fix | |
| 4026 | Pane layouts are no longer reset when a project is loaded or re-loaded(during the same session). | Fix | |
| 4030 | The Export Summary dialog's display of export location and file name is now scrollable so that very long paths can be viewed. | Fix | |
| 4038 | The 'current' directory is now set when you open a project from the recent projects list. This current directory becomes the default directory when adding photos or importing control etc. | Fix | |
| 4068 | The yes/no warning that comes up saying: "A Camera Station has a position that is greater than 1,000,000..." has been reworded for clarification. | Fix | |
| 4072 | You are now warned about images that are rotated when adding to the project in the Calibration wizard. If there is an inconsistency (ie EXIF focal length, image resolution, aspect ratio) , you will be asked to reselect a consistent set of photos. Also no longer can you get into a state where the calibration project contains more than one camera. | Fix | |
| 5496 | You are now prompted to save your project when closing PhotoModeler if you have made changes to layers or materials and/or made layer or material assignments. | Fix | |
| 5468 | The memory check when opening photos no longer uses a cap on the maximum memory available. The warning will no longer appear prematurely for those with more than 1.5gb of RAM. The wording on the warning dialog has also been corrected with the correct location of memory check preference settings. | Fix | |
| 5472 | The Help file associated with the Tutorials (accessed from the link on the tutorial menu) was updated with possible solutions to common tutorial video display problems. | Fix | |
| 5477 | Cylinders no longer export if not selected in DXF export options. | Fix | |
| 5480 | The version number noted in PhotoModeler's Maya (.ma) export files has been increased as newer versions of Maya will no longer read old version .ma Maya files. | Fix | |
| 5482 | Fixed a problem where output of a photo to printer or clipboard did not take into account the photo's rotation properly. | Fix | |
| 5494 | When using large coordinate systems OBJ export now defaults to outputting full decimal places. | Fix | |
| From Release 6.1.3 to 6.1.4 [June 11, 2007] (9 changes) | |||
| 4054 | # There is a new option to 'auto-activate' photo, table and 3D Viewer panes as the mouse cursor enters the pane, instead of requiring a click. The option is off by default but can be turned on individually (photos, tables, 3D Viewer) on the Preferences dialog ( Application Settings, General page). This makes a number of tasks faster and easier in photomodeler but is a significant change in the interface and so we are leaving it off by default for now. Give it a try. | Significant | |
| 4057 | Fixed a problem when manually loading a camera into the Camera Library (via the Camera Library dialog) when the source of the camera was a multi-camera project. | Crash Fix | |
| 4059 | There is a new option to control if Scroll Zoom (wheel mouse zoom) should only work when the mouse cursor is positioned over a part of the image (opposed to zooming the active image no matter where mouse is). This option can be turned on or off on the Preferences dialog, User Interface, Photo Zoom and Pan page. | Crash Fix | |
| 4063 | Fixed a crash in the Auto-project Wizard having to do with the setup of the Scale/Rotate. | Crash Fix | |
| 4064 | Fixed a crash that could occur while Referencing when both points and lines are selected, a 3D Viewer is open and automatic processing is on . | Crash Fix | |
| 4070 | Fixed a crash bug that could occur when new camera was set as the default camera with the 3D Viewer open and Camera Stations visible. | Crash Fix | |
| 4061 | A new button on the Camera Library dialog brings up the folder in which the cameras are stored. | Improve | |
| 5465 | At very specific window, zoom and image size combinations zooming an image out so that it was smaller than the window size would not work. This has been fixed. | Fix | |
| 5478 | When a project is loaded with images missing, the Image Check dialog box (showing camera and image mismatches) no longer appears since missing images are not valid for checks. | Fix | |
| From Release 6.1.2 to 6.1.3 [May 31, 2007] (59 changes) | |||
| 3089 | The 3D viewer now has 2 head light settings: one for shaded and one for textured. The default ambient light setting has also changed. | Significant | |
| 3302 | After processing there is now a prompt allowing you to choose if any displayed textures should be rebuilt. In conjunction the update button now also applies to fast textures. Additionally the texture rebuild time is no longer counted in the automatic processing time check. | Significant | |
| 3535 | # Added the option to use camera station positions when defining the global coordinate system for Google Earth export. Additionally if the images used for the project have geo-coded exif information this data can be used to determine the models gobal position. | Significant | |
| 3555 | A new tool on the Referencing Pane allows you to toggle a new feature 'Auto-arrange Photo Panes'. When on this feature positions the reference source view left-most in the Photos pane, and other photos tabbed to the right. When the source photo changes or a new photo is opened and the tool is 'on', photo panes auto arrange themselves. By default this new feature is 'off'. | Significant | |
| 4040 | A new drop down menu is available on Photo, 3D Viewer and Table panes, showing common pane actions such as Maximize/Tab, Tile, etc.. Click on the small triangle down arrow on the title bar of the pane. | Significant | |
| 3318 | The surface draw line and curve modes now change the cursor when it is over an existing point mark the surface draw will snap to. | Crash Fix | |
| 3324 | Shape faces now display their name on the measure dialog. | Crash Fix | |
| 3344 | Minor menu text changes. | Crash Fix | |
| 3356 | Region select now correctly ends the selection on a double click. | Crash Fix | |
| 3365 | In New Project Wizard fixed a problem with the text on the Next> button after using the Back button. | Crash Fix | |
| 3410 | Draging a surface draw point while confidence regions are displayed will no longer creates a extremely large region. Surface draw points do not have confidence regions. | Crash Fix | |
| 3468 | Path surfaces computed using the NURBS based triangles now face the same direction as other calculation methods. | Crash Fix | |
| 3488 | You can now uncode a coded target point from the properties pane without needing to select "edit properties". | Crash Fix | |
| 3565 | A crash no longer occurs when clicking 'close' after drawing only 2 silhouette points. | Crash Fix | |
| 3570 | A crash no longer occurs when trying an IGES export with a project that has never been saved. | Crash Fix | |
| 3571 | Merging projects will now ensure line IDs are unique. | Crash Fix | |
| 3572 | A crash no longer occurs when selecting an imported line and then selecting a regular line. | Crash Fix | |
| 3574 | A warning now appears if the texture size selected in the 3D Viewer Options is larger than supported by the OpenGL driver. You can also revert to the maximum size allowable using this dialog. | Crash Fix | |
| 3575 | Surfaces have their UV texture-map coordinates assigned more efficently. | Crash Fix | |
| 3578 | The automarking summary dialog now says "Done." when it has finished marking. | Crash Fix | |
| 3580 | Fixed a crash that could happen when loading a camera from certain projects. | Crash Fix | |
| 3581 | The list of photos used by a camera on the cameras dialog is now a read-only edit field so it can be scrolled to see the full list if more than 14 photos are assigned to the camera. | Crash Fix | |
| 3582 | Added warnings if offset points are used for the affine scale/rotate definition. | Crash Fix | |
| 3583 | The 3D Viewer's point ID text size is now adjustable via the preferences dialog. | Crash Fix | |
| 3584 | Improved the warnings displayed when adding offset points to a project with no scale defined. | Crash Fix | |
| 3585 | Shape verticies will only be visible in the 3D viewer if the shape has been solved. | Crash Fix | |
| 3586 | Fixed a problem with how curves through offset points are saved with the project. | Crash Fix | |
| 3587 | Added a "Go to" button on the offline activation dialog to help locate the file needed for activation. | Crash Fix | |
| 3588 | The check box to control coded target center-cross printing (on the print coded targets dialog) now works correctly. | Crash Fix | |
| 3589 | When printing coded targets with an inverted background, multiple pages of targets will now all have a black background. | Crash Fix | |
| 3596 | Fixed a crash when using undo processing after an automatic processing had run while a reference helper line was displayed. | Crash Fix | |
| 3598 | The referencing pane now has a minimum height so the referencing toolbar will always be visible. | Crash Fix | |
| 3599 | The imported name property now only displayes 'varies' when imported objects from different imports are selected. | Crash Fix | |
| 3605 | Fixed an issue where a projects lines could get into a corrupted state if a line was drawn to an imported point and the imported object was then removed from the project. | Crash Fix | |
| 3607 | Surface draw now works correctly in the alt-zoom window. | Crash Fix | |
| 3651 | Fixed a crash that would happen when changing an offset point back to no-offset using the right click properties dialog. | Crash Fix | |
| 3800 | Project Merge now handles imported objects (ie. control points) and offset points. | Crash Fix | |
| 3822 | When installing a module or activation key on the Licenses dialog box, you no longer need to restart PhotoModeler to enable module features on the toolbar and menus. | Crash Fix | |
| 3889 | Some optimizations have been made to the process of creating projects using photos (with and without EXIF information) taken from mutliple cameras. | Crash Fix | |
| 3918 | Fiducial selection is now enabled properly during Fiducial Marking mode when a photo is opened/activated. | Crash Fix | |
| 3921 | Adding an imported object will add the import visibility controls as soon as the object is added, rather than after entering marking mode. | Crash Fix | |
| 3947 | Minor cosmetic changes to the Project Information dialog. | Crash Fix | |
| 3983 | The Imports Explorer's list view now shows the import point's associated object point ID in the OP Id column. | Crash Fix | |
| 4032 | A problem with selecting photos for a new project after moving back and forth through the Wizard has been fixed. You no longer need to reselect your photos. | Crash Fix | |
| 4033 | Fixed a problem with loading a camera into the Camera Library from a project with multiple cameras. | Crash Fix | |
| 4034 | You no longer need to have a project open before toolbar and menu customizations are stored in your user settings. | Crash Fix | |
| 4037 | There is now a user optional Yes/No dialog which allows storing your usual setting without having to click the Yes or No button each time. Optional warnings and Yes/No dialogs can be reset so that they do display on the General page of the Preferences dialog. | Crash Fix | |
| 4039 | A new 'progress bar' appears when loading large projects. | Crash Fix | |
| 4041 | A problem with the scale/rotate validity check when checking the non-3Point scale rotate before export has been fixed as part of a revamped scale/translate/rotate validity check system. | Crash Fix | |
| 4042 | When automarking a large number of photos, especially when photos are high resolution, the number of photos to be marked could be limited due to depleted memory resources. Image pixel data is now released from memory after each photo is automarked so that the number of photos automarked is no longer limited. | Crash Fix | |
| 4043 | When you Browse for a project from the Getting Started Panel, no longer can multiple file browse windows be opened. In addition the Getting Started Panel no longer closes after browsing for tutorial projects, projects on disk, or when trying to open a recent project when that project does not exist (or Cancel is pressed). | Crash Fix | |
| 4045 | Fixed a crash that occured when re-subpixel marking a point, then deleting this point, then trying to mark a point using manual sub-pixel marking mode. | Crash Fix | |
| 4046 | The Undo button no longer is enabled after cancelling the new project wizard after selecting new photos. | Crash Fix | |
| 4048 | Certain drop lists would not expand fully on some Windows 2000 machines. This has been fixed. | Crash Fix | |
| 3577 | Various user interface improvements: - Photo, Table and 3D Viewer panes can now be switched between using the keyboard Alt+F6. - A page setup and print preview function has been added to the table printing. - The PMV Epoch report can now be printed - The print and output dialog now updates it's "ok" button to indicate what type of output will be done. | Crash Fix | |
| 3878 | 3-point scale rotate now works with any units, not just meters. | Crash Fix | |
| 4044 | A problem with deleting a project's constraints and then processing has been fixed. | Crash Fix | |
| 4049 | The Select All and Select Unreferenced buttons now enable when entering Select mode if a photo, 3D Viewer or Table pane is active. Also the Reference mode button enables when a photo is added to a single photo project. | Crash Fix | |
| 4107 | The status bar pane showing details on selected items can at some display resolutions and/or applicaiton window sizes cut-off some of the text. The tool-tip (shown when mouse cursor is placed over that status bar section) now shows the full text so that it can be fully displayed at any resolution or window size. | Improve | |
| From Release 6.1.1 to 6.1.2 [April 18, 2007] (26 changes) | |||
| 3428 | Improvements to MAXScript export. All surface types, cylinders, and imported lines can now be exported. When cameras are exported an image plane displaying the associated photo can optionally (control on the preferences dialog) be included. Additionally, the default cameras format size and image resolution will be output as the rendering sizes. Point size and a name prefix can be set under the export area of the preferences dialog. | Significant | |
| 3541 | The 3D viewer texture image size can now be increased beyond the graphics card's texture size limit and is now only limited by the amount of RAM. | Significant | |
| 3561 | # Added the ability to export curve data to Google Earth KMZ files. | Significant | |
| 4023 | Google Earth export (.kmz) now exports photo textures correctly when photo file names have spaces. | Significant | |
| 3301 | Quality textures rebuild less often and should now only build when necessary. | Crash Fix | |
| 3373 | When the points a line is drawn between do not share any common images removing an image one of the points is imaged on will no longer remove the line. | Crash Fix | |
| 3524 | When switching to line mode directly after referencing, the selection on the source photo is now correctly cleared. | Crash Fix | |
| 3528 | A warning is now displayed if you try to set an inverse camera flag on a photo when the photo's camera does not have the 'make copy for inverse camera' flag set. | Crash Fix | |
| 3554 | Point cloud surfaces now work correctly with offset and imported points. | Crash Fix | |
| 3559 | Fixed a crash that could occur when deleting an imported object while in import marking/pinning mode. | Crash Fix | |
| 3563 | The centerline radio button works correctly for VRML 2 export. | Crash Fix | |
| 3566 | Exporting a project that has never been saved (ie. 'Untitled') as an IGES file will no longer cause a crash. | Crash Fix | |
| 3569 | IGES exports with long paths will now correctly display the file name in the export summary dialog. | Crash Fix | |
| 3738 | When the Reference Checker runs (with the 'rename' option), it no longer uses the Object Point's User Name property. The Reference Checker now uses a new property (shown on Point Tables only) called Ref.Check Tag. Also, this property is cleared for all points prior to each processing so that the label is assigned only to potential problem points based on the most recent processing. | Crash Fix | |
| 3826 | The 'update' button for quality textures in 3D Viewer Options now works correctly at all times. | Crash Fix | |
| 3996 | A problem that occured when exporting a model when the project's 3 Point Scale/Rotate was only partially defined has been fixed. A warning appears when the scale/rotate is invalid and the export proceeds without it. | Crash Fix | |
| 3997 | Large project export fixes: When exporting very large projects with 'Quality' textures using multi-photo photo-texture materials, two memory leaks may have prevented the file from being written properly. This has been fixed, along with a fix to allow more on-disk intermediate files. | Crash Fix | |
| 4010 | A sporadic crash occuring after a set of steps involving the undo of certain actions and processing while tables are open has been fixed. | Crash Fix | |
| 4017 | A redundant warning about a photo being rotated no longer appears when adding photos to a project via the New Project Wizard. | Crash Fix | |
| 4019 | The Photo Table right click popup menu now includes the 'Toggle Group Sorting' tool, for consistency with other table right click menus. | Crash Fix | |
| 4020 | When exporting projects using quality textures (if intermediate files are written to disk during export), the amount of disk space required and available is checked to make sure enough is available for export completion. A warning message will appear and the export will abort if not enough space is available on the disk to which the export was saved. | Crash Fix | |
| 4021 | A Yes/No dialog now appears if the texture size setting in the Export Options dialog is unusually large and could cause long delays or other problems with export. | Crash Fix | |
| 4024 | Intermediate photo texturing files that are written during export are now removed after completion of the export. | Crash Fix | |
| 4025 | A bug introduced in 6.1 could cause the parameter list in the DDE Export command to be out of sync with certain export formats. This has been fixed. | Crash Fix | |
| 4029 | A crash no longer occurs when cancelling the dialog in which you select a camera from a project containing more than one camera. | Crash Fix | |
| 4139 | Some typos fixed, clarifications made, and index entries added to the Help documentation. | Crash Fix | |
| From Release 6.1.0 to 6.1.1 [March 26, 2007] (1 change) | |||
| 3558 | Resolved an issue with shapes created using version 6.1 not working correctly. | Crash Fix | |
| From Release 6.0.0 to 6.1.1 [March 23, 2007] (28 changes) | |||
| 3539 | # Added point offset feature. The offset type property on points creates a 'shadow' point that is offset a specified distance in a specified direction. This is useful in cases where you have a target sitting off the ground but are interested in using the ground point for measurement or line/surface marking. | Significant | |
| 3542 | # If the coded targets module is installed a new command "coded target offsets" is available on the project menu. This command allows you to automatically generate a set of offset points based on pairs of coded targets. See the help file "Coded target offsets" section for details on coded target offsets. | Significant | |
| 3129 | Performance (speed of update, painting, etc) when working with projects loaded over a network has been improved. The problem was related to a known Windows XP problem (fixed in Vista) with certain image files with certain EXIF fields. | Crash Fix | |
| 3281 | The 3D view of the import explorer will no longer reset it's view position and rotation after processing. | Crash Fix | |
| 3420 | A sporadic crash no longer occurs on the Layer Control grids (on Visibility pane and 3D Viewer options) and setting visiblity no longer cause the grid to re-sort and change selection. | Crash Fix | |
| 3470 | Control points with fixed precision no longer display confidence regions. | Crash Fix | |
| 3520 | The electronic Help document includes a section on Photography guidelines. This section now appears in both the User Guide and Help document. | Crash Fix | |
| 3530 | After Re-numbering a project, the IDs of newly marked items will start at the end of the renumbered count. | Crash Fix | |
| 3531 | There is now a warning when importing control data into a project that has a scale/rotate defined. | Crash Fix | |
| 3536 | Fixed a case where exporting centerlines of some non-3D cylinders could cause a crash. | Crash Fix | |
| 3537 | If a camera station is more than 1,000,000 meters from the origin you are now warned but allowed to continue during processing. | Crash Fix | |
| 3549 | Fixed a crash that could occur when exporting texture surfaces and full cylinders that had the same material in VRML 2. | Crash Fix | |
| 3955 | When assigning a camera to a photo via the Photo Properties dialog box the "Images Do Not Match" dialog now correctly shows the newly assigned Camera's photo resolution. | Crash Fix | |
| 3984 | When adding an imported point via DDE if the project contains a scale/rotate it will be applied to the coordinates just like when loading them from a file through the imports explorer. | Crash Fix | |
| 3986 | The Mark Fiducials button now appears when a project with a fiducial camera is opened. | Crash Fix | |
| 3988 | When adding a new camera on the Cameras dialog, a check box has been added to the Camera Missing Image Size dialog to set whether the new camera is an Inverse Camera. This new camera can then be set as the project's"Default" camera and as an Inverse camera it will be copied and assigned to newly added photos in the project. | Crash Fix | |
| 3991 | The Imports button on the Road Scene UI main toolbar has been replaced with one that correctly prompts for an import file and opens the Imports Explorer. | Crash Fix | |
| 3993 | An assert crash no longer occurs when setting a camera with the wrong image resolution to a photo via the Photo Properties dialog. | Crash Fix | |
| 3994 | When creating a new camera on the Cameras dialog (using the New button), the camera is now built based on the image selected in the Camera Missing Image dialog, using the image's EXIF information if available. This also fixes a bug in this area where a camera could be assigned an incorrect resolution. | Crash Fix | |
| 4003 | When selecting an Approximate Camera in the New Project Wizards, the Inverse Camera flags no longer get set on the camera and photos. Approximate cameras are not intended to be solved. | Crash Fix | |
| 4004 | Exported Import Points now correctly export their ID's and the export summary separates the import components. | Crash Fix | |
| 4005 | Line tables now show the ID and 3D position of Imported Point end points (ID displayed with "(import)" appended to the id to differentiate with object point ID's). | Crash Fix | |
| 4011 | In rare situations PhotoModeler would fail to start on specifc systems. A new warning is now displayed in this case and changes allow PhotoModeler to start correctly. | Crash Fix | |
| 4014 | A sporadic crash when clicking the text of certain Alert Popup messages has been fixed. | Crash Fix | |
| 4089 | Toolbar layouts no longer store bitmap information. This and other optimizations in the toolbar resource have made toolbar layout files smaller and load faster at startup. | Crash Fix | |
| 4138 | The Help document has been updated with information for Offset Points, as well as some revisions for clarification and typo fixes. | Crash Fix | |
| 3990 | A typo on the Scale/Rotate dialog (Overview pane with a 3 Point type) where the "P3" label showed a "P2" has been fixed. | Crash Fix | |
| 3521 | A new preference setting has been added to control the photo image resample type when 3D items are visible in photos. See Preferences - Image page. The default resample type settings are now 'Normal' when no 3D items visible, and Bi-linear when 3D items are visible. | Improve | |
| From Release 6.0.14 to 6.0.15 [February 28, 2007] (15 changes) | |||
| 3250 | Selecting objects on the reference source pane no longer causes an unneeded repaint. | Crash Fix | |
| 3272 | A new Alert Popup (at bottom right) appears during the New Project Wizard when selecting a camera via a project (.pmr file) on the Camera Source pane. It displays the name of the camera that will be assigned to the photos in your project. | Crash Fix | |
| 3343 | Selection of an item on a sorted Imports Explorer list view now works correctly. | Crash Fix | |
| 3444 | The z precision values for fixed control points now display as fixed instead of 0.0 | Crash Fix | |
| 3446 | The Restore Original button on Image enhance would not always work when the Enhance Image pane was not active. This has been fixed. | Crash Fix | |
| 3510 | When surfaces are not selected for importing DXF poly-line entities will still be read in. | Crash Fix | |
| 3512 | If you open a project with existing control points and then select modify and add a new point it will be added with an appropriately incremented ID number. | Crash Fix | |
| 3514 | Activation passwords are checked to make sure they are no longer than 16 characters. | Crash Fix | |
| 3519 | The warning when selecting invalid objects for Scale/Rotate definition has been reworded for clarification. | Crash Fix | |
| 3522 | Deleting a material now correctly removes the material from any shapes. | Crash Fix | |
| 3523 | Fixed a crash that could occur when deleting the second point that defines the scale. | Crash Fix | |
| 3695 | Drag and drop photos now attempts automatic camera matching. If the appropriate camera is in your camera library, you can now simply drag photos onto the PhotoModeler window to create a project with the matching camera assigned to each photo. | Crash Fix | |
| 3978 | Fixed a typo in the Select Photos pane of the project wizard. | Crash Fix | |
| 3980 | Projects initiated using drag and drop now use default units and coded target bit sets as set in Preferences. | Crash Fix | |
| 3982 | A change made in version 6.0.14 caused Coded Target printing tools to be hidden from view unless the Idealize Module was installed. This has been fixed. | Crash Fix | |
| From Release 6.0.14.231 to 6.0.15.235 [February 15, 2007] (8 changes) | |||
| 3167 | Fixed a case where using zoom to fit or zoom to fit all could cause the reference helper line(s) to draw at the wrong time. | Crash Fix | |
| 3377 | When a photo is set to unoriented, or a photos orientation is calculated in a shapes-based project the title bar will now update correctly. | Crash Fix | |
| 3454 | Editing the degrees of rotation on a revolution surface now works correctly. | Crash Fix | |
| 3459 | The triangle counts on the export summary dialog are now correct when exporting shapes or surfaces as a mesh. | Crash Fix | |
| 3461 | The multiple select status bar now displays counts for shape vertex marks and shape vertices. | Crash Fix | |
| 3507 | With coded targets installed, if show summary is checked on the automarking dialog, the summary will no longer come up during manual marking. | Crash Fix | |
| 3916 | When objects with varying properties that are normally edited using a drop down are selected the grid correctly says 'varies' instead of '1'. | Crash Fix | |
| 3970 | Fixed a crash that could happen when canceling a cylinder marked on the 2nd photo opened. | Crash Fix | |
| From Release 6.0.12.224 to 6.0.13.230 [February 12, 2007] (15 changes) | |||
| 3450 | Fixed a crash when deleting a textured imported object or shape while a 3D viewer was open. | Crash Fix | |
| 3474 | Fixed a crash that would happen when imported points were used as part of a trim. | Crash Fix | |
| 3486 | The finish trim right click menu item when in Trim/Hole mode now is enabled appropriately. | Crash Fix | |
| 3489 | The hints on the surface property pane for Extend and Trim have been added. | Crash Fix | |
| 3492 | Fixed a crash that would occur if you tried to idealize a photo set with no photos in it. | Crash Fix | |
| 3494 | Fixed a spelling mistake that could show up when running in demo mode. | Crash Fix | |
| 3499 | Opening a photo that had shape markings after merging no longer causes a crash. (Shapes are not merged) | Crash Fix | |
| 3966 | The Mark Fiducials tool only appears on the menu when a project has a camera with fiducials; the Camera Calibration tool now only appears on the menu when the project is a calibration type. Both of these tools cannot be customized to avoid having them appear on menus inappropriately in certain projects. | Crash Fix | |
| 3967 | Instruction Manager no longer erroneously says you can use a surface draw item for surface trim / hole. | Crash Fix | |
| 3968 | The Trim, Hole and Flip surface tools no longer appear as the top tool on the Surfaces drop down menu to prevent entering an invalid mode state. | Crash Fix | |
| 3974 | When running in Demo mode, the PhotoModeler application title bar now shows "PhotoModeler - Demo". Once activated, the title bar no longer shows "- Demo". | Crash Fix | |
| 3975 | The Activation Dialog now has a "Do not show this dialog again" check box, which when checked prevents the dialog from appearing on startup, which applies to demo users who do not have an activation code to enter. Note that activation codes can be either entered on the this Activation dialog, or on the Modules dialog (accessible from the Options menu). | Crash Fix | |
| 3976 | The wrong popup menu no longer apperas when right clicking during Curve Through Points mode. | Crash Fix | |
| 3977 | A problem with the program path being properly set in the ini file whne installing just the Tutorial Projects (ie no program files). | Crash Fix | |
| 4007 | The combo box on the 2 photo autoreference dialog to choose a layer is now a drop-list. | Crash Fix | |
| From Release 6.0.11 to 6.0.12.224 [February 7, 2007] (7 changes) | |||
| 5933 | Automatic processing - Projects can optionally be set to process automatically when a change is made that could affect the projects state (eg. referencing a new point, dragging mark, etc.). | Significant | |
| 5934 | Imports - PhotoModeler now supports the importing of existing models in DXF, 3DS, OBJ and TXT/CLT format. These models can be created using an external package or from an export of an existing PhotoModeler project. | Significant | |
| 5935 | Direct printing of coded targets to a Windows printer. | Significant | |
| 5936 | New Measure Pane (no longer a mode, ticker tape measurements on selected items, and copy and paste capability). | Significant | |
| 5937 | New streamlined Photo Visibility dialog. | Significant | |
| 5939 | The import-control-point status bar has been updated to include the object point it is controlling and the photos it is marked on, if any. | Improve | |
| 2969 | When merging projects a warning is displayed if 'reference named and coded points' is checked and a project contains a non-unique name. When merging projects a warning is displayed if 'reference Named and coded points" is checked and a project contains a non-unique name. | Fix | |
| PhotoModeler 6.0.11 - BETA (4 changes) | |||
| 3338 | Fixed a case where after Import, the marking select mode would only show the no-action cursor. | Crash Fix | |
| 3353 | When a circle is selected the measure pane now displays the circle's XYZ center point. | Crash Fix | |
| 3363 | The channel used for target marking is now on the preferences dialog (under Target Marking) and is also used for edge detection. Default installed is green channel. | Crash Fix | |
| 3897 | It is now easier to re-enable warnings that have the 'Do not show again' checkbox (ie User Optional Warnings). The General pane of the Preferences dialog now lists these warnings with checkboxes. | Improve | |
| PhotoModeler 6.0.10 - BETA (2 changes) | |||
| 3125 | Shapes - geometric solid entities such as cubes, pyramids, and wedges that are easily added to photographs by marking their edges and the fastest way to construct non-organic models using a solid geometry approach. | Significant | |
| 3885 | PhotoModeler now installs into two separate folders. The first is the standard Program Files folder - the program and support files are installed there as usual. The second folder created is typically: C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataPhotoModeler File that are written to and changed by PhotoModeler (e.g. Camera Library, Layouts, Table Configurations, Help file, and Preferences ini file) are now installed here. This change was made because files that will be written to during program operation should not be under the Program Files folder as this may be write-protected on some computers and is not the current Windows standard. The Windows standard states that application data that changes should be stored under the Documents and Settings folder. | Improve | |
| PhotoModeler 6.0.9 - BETA (2 changes) | |||
| 3861 | The FOV labels in the Photo Table have been corrected. FOV W has become FOV Vert, and FOV H has become FOV Horiz. | Crash Fix | |
| 3846 | There is now a button on the Calibration Dialog to access the Processing Report after a calibration, to allow for immediate review of a calibration. | Improve | |
| PhotoModeler 6.0.8 - BETA (5 changes) | |||
| 3120 | # Improvements to texturing Applies to quality textures only: - texture mapping is now pixel-based instead of triangle-based - this means that more model will get textured if it projects partly off a photo - mask images are now supported - this lets you remove unwanted parts of a photo from texturing (removing a tree or a car from in front of a building for example). The texturing system tryings to fill and blend in data from other photos of the area if possible. - occlusion processing - objects cast 'shadows' in the texture map - that is one part of model can occlude another part from a particular photo location and the occluded part of the model will not use that incorrect photographic data - instead alternate photo source will be found (or area will be filled with gray if no unoccluded photo can be found) - one can now decide how multiple photos are blended in the final texture map - you can decide between sharp textures (but sharper photo transistions) and uniform textures ( | Significant | |
| 3790 | #The status bar now responds to mouse clicks. When clicking on the Processing type section, automatic/manual processing is toggled; when clicking on the project status showing highest residual point (in a points project), the point is selected and the highest residual point mark photo is opened/displayed. | Significant | |
| 3763 | The default shortcut keys for tables no longer use the Alt key (eg Shift-1 instead of Shift-Alt-1), to avoid getting into a strange state with the Alt-zoom window on photos. | Crash Fix | |
| 3121 | A new activation system is in place. | Improve | |
| 4075 | Toolbar Layouts are now stored using xml files instead of in the registry. This improve uninstall times amoung other things. | Improve | |
| PhotoModeler 6.0.7 - BETA (2 changes) | |||
| 3234 | # When a single point (marked point, curve point, cylinder point, shape vertex, etc.) is selected the keyboard's arrow keys will allow fine adjustments of the point's position. | Crash Fix | |
| 3242 | # The renumber dialog allows you to set the number to start numbering points from. | Improve | |
| PhotoModeler 6.0.6 - BETA (4 changes) | |||
| 3746 | #Improvements have been made to the way cameras are automatically matched (or created) when selecting photos with EXIF information from multiple sources. You can automatically create multiple EXIF estimate cameras in the wizard without using the Inverse camera path, for approximate solutions. | Significant | |
| 3227 | Changed the VRML2 smoothed option setting to be an angle setting. | Crash Fix | |
| 3225 | # Added camera station position/orientation to VRML export | Improve | |
| 3687 | If you use the alt zoom feature near the edge of the screen the pop-up window will now be forced to fit with-in the screen space. | Improve | |
| PhotoModeler 6.0.5 - BETA (7 changes) | |||
| 3719 | A new feature to create animations (.avi and .gif files) using 3D Viewer keyframes has been added. The "Export 3D Viewer Animation..." tool is on the Export submenu of the File menu. | Significant | |
| 3200 | Resolved a case where an 'Edge can not be processed" error could occure during processing. | Crash Fix | |
| 3208 | - The thick lines visibilty setting is now saved with the project. - A change to how visibilty settings are handled reduces the 'flashing' of photos marks when changing visibility settings. | Crash Fix | |
| 3677 | A new system of tracking initialization and other problems has been implemented. Please contact Tech Support for information on this if PhotoModeler is not launching correctly. | Crash Fix | |
| 3197 | # Imported points can now be used with auto-triangulation. | Improve | |
| 3203 | # Point cloud surfaces can now include imported points. | Improve | |
| 3710 | # When adding photos to a project if the images header contains information about the orientation of the image the photos rotation will be set accordingly. | Improve | |
| PhotoModeler 6.0.4 - BETA (3 changes) | |||
| 3144 | Both marked and non-marked Imported points and lines can now be using when creating surfaces. | Crash Fix | |
| 3187 | Degenerate triangles created by non-path surfaces are now removed automatically. This corrects a potential assert when exporting .kmz files. | Crash Fix | |
| 3188 | The exif information from certain cameras would not be converted to the correct format size during calibration, this has been fixed. | Crash Fix | |
| PhotoModeler 6.0.3 - BETA (4 changes) | |||
| 3163 | A new 'open' button has been added to the export summary dialog that will try to open the exported file with the application associated with the file extension. | Crash Fix | |
| 3590 | There are now two tools on a drop list control to open a 3D Viewer. "Open 3D Viewer", and "Open 3D Viewer with Options", the latter acts like PM 5, where the Options dialog appears first. | Crash Fix | |
| 4113 | The default resampling type used when painting images is now bi-linear. This fixes an image shift problem when 3D projections are made visible in photos. This can be controlled with the "Resampling Type" setting on the Preferences dialog (Image page). | Crash Fix | |
| 4116 | The Reference Checker (which optionally runs before point processing) is now a bit more robust in making decisions as to what is a bad reference. It can now pick up more single point misreferences even when the photo of the mis-reference does not share the minimum number of points with many photos. | Crash Fix | |
| PhotoModeler 6.0 - BETA [August 14, 2006] (66 changes) | |||
| 2373 | Manual sub-pixel marking will mark coded target points if the code can be detected in the region selected. | Significant | |
| 2963 | Automatic Referencing: - improvement: uses a stricter check for tightness that should help with objects that are more 3D (opposed to 2.5D surfaces) - fix: a bug would cause some bad references to be made in some cases (more true with large number of photos). This has been fixed. - you can now properly turn off projection-clean-up method with an ini setting - fixed an assert that might occur when two camera stations on top of each other during auto-ref - projection search threshold now defaults to 1.0 instead of 7.0 pixels - all automatic referencing ini settings renamed and put in [AutoRef] section now | Significant | |
| 9 | Window managment has been improved with the addition of a paned interface. | Significant | |
| 364 | Revamped and Improved Point Referencing, including multiple epipolar lines, more flexible source/destination designation etc. | Significant | |
| 1284 | Quality Feedback in 3D Viewer, point/camera station rays, axes, error ellipsoids, image plane camera station symbols, ground plane etc. | Significant | |
| 1287 | Tables Revamped, and include additional sort methods (group sort), printing, exporting, faster sort and creation, copying to clipboard, column freezing and real time sorting. Two new tables can be generated: Point Mark (2D) and Line Table. | Significant | |
| 1523 | User Interface Revamp (panes, toolbars etc.) - The user interface has had a major overhaul to bring it to modern standards while at the same time improving ease of use and work flow. Toolbar bitmaps replaced. | Significant | |
| 1854 | # A new Add-on Module, Idealize Camera, has been added. This module provides the functionality to convert and existing PhotoModeler project with a calibrated camera into a project with an 'ideal' camera. An 'ideal' camera has no lens distortion, square pixels and a centered principle point. This function will change the camera parameters, resample (warp) all photographs to remove the distortions, and move all photo marks to match the resampled images. The main purpose of this function, is so that data (3d model and images) can be exported to animation and rendering packages for excellent perspective matching (since these packages use ideal cameras for rendering). | Significant | |
| 2002 | New Exports - Google Earth (KML and KMZ) and Maya .ma files with camera stations, lines and locators. | Significant | |
| 2480 | Improved detection of low angles between camera station during orientation. Making orientation more robust. | Significant | |
| 2768 | A new Startup Dialog box is shown when PhotoModeler launches. It provides options to load a recent project, browse for a project, start a new project or access various help files. The dialog box can also be shown when clicking Getting Started on the File menu. A hyperlink allows you to disable it so that it does not appear at startup (you can also set whether it shows up by setting the "Show Startup Dialog" setting in Preferences). | Significant | |
| 2772 | New Printing and Output (photos, tables and 3D viewers can be out to file, clipboard or printer) | Significant | |
| 201 | A crash no longer occures when using control-pan while in region select mode. | Crash Fix | |
| 611 | Fixed a crash that could occur when an end point of a line used in a sweep was not 3D. | Crash Fix | |
| 659 | A warning now comes up if you load or try to track a PMV project with template targets and the template no longer exists. | Crash Fix | |
| 2389 | Merging a project with photos that have the same file name and both photos have silhouette marks or a merge of projects with silhouettes that have a very large coordinate system no longer causes a crash. | Crash Fix | |
| 2433 | Fixed an assert that could happen when merging a project with a named point whos 3D position was not calculated due to audit settings such as the angle threshold. | Crash Fix | |
| 2726 | A crash no longer occurs when switching to "By layer' on the 2 photo autoreferencing dialog. | Crash Fix | |
| 2529 | Crash no longer occurs after selecting all in a Surface Table, then hitting delete to delete all surfaces, then selecting all in a cylinder or silhouette table, then deleting all cylinders. | Crash Fix | |
| 183 | Removed the restrictions on layer name length and character set. | Improve | |
| 238 | Measuring a circle displays the radius. | Improve | |
| 267 | Locators exported to Maya can optionally be based on the object points ID. | Improve | |
| 312 | Referencing mode allows sub-pixel marking. | Improve | |
| 610 | The recently used projects are accessible via the short-cut keys 1-9. | Improve | |
| 686 | All 3D Viewer Settings are now stored with the project. When you open a project (and when you open a new instance of a 3D Viewer), your most recent viewing settings are restored. | Improve | |
| 692 | Zoom level shown as a percent on Photo title bar, no longer a zoom ratio. | Improve | |
| 698 | The 3D viewer now has the ability to exaggerate a specified axis. This is useful when viewing a deformation in a specific plane as it allows you to visualize relative change. | Improve | |
| 929 | Improved the 3D viewer z-buffer handling of lines and surfaces. This means if a line and surface are on the same plane the line will always draw on top. | Improve | |
| 1106 | A new property on material allows an RGB color to be used only when textures are not shown. | Improve | |
| 1289 | Zoom controls removed from right click menu to free up space. Zoom controls grouped on toolbar. | Improve | |
| 1842 | The automarking dialog now provides a summary of what occured. | Improve | |
| 2769 | The Add remove Photos dialog has been replaced with a control allowing easier directory navigation and viewing options of thumbnails or file details in both the "In Project" and "On Disk" panes. | Improve | |
| 2840 | Added a new DDE command to return the X,Y projected pixel location of any arbitrary 3D point. Send as "ProjectPoint PhotoNumber X Y Z" (note x, y, z are in Meters). Return "S X Y" | Improve | |
| 2923 | An alert will come up if a reference causes a points residual to become larger than the project marking quality. | Improve | |
| 257 | The validation for spin controls is now done when they lose focus making it easier to type numbers into the edit box. | Improve | |
| 1288 | Cameras dialog has been expanded to show EXIF information, calibration type, and various calibration quality indicators. | Improve | |
| 1614 | Project's are now unitless until the Scale is set (Preference setting used for default project units) | Improve | |
| 1905 | There are now two types of axis display available with-in the 3D viewer, available on the Advanced tab of the 3D viewer options dialog. One is displayed in the corner of the viewer overlaying the model and gives a guide as to the current view direction. The other is display with in the model data. | Improve | |
| 2713 | Added the option to store the current view position of the 3D viewer. This can then be restored when needed allowing a custom reset position instead of just 'top', 'bottom', 'left', etc. | Improve | |
| 2767 | When adding photos to a project (via Wizard or within an existing project), photos can now be automatically matched with cameras that have been stored in the Camera Database. Cameras are stored in the Camarea database after calibration. | Improve | |
| 2794 | There is now an option to sort rows in a table by grouping (instead of just ascending or descending order). Group sorting can be toggled on/off using a right click menu tool, and then when column header is clicked to sort, the rows are grouped based on the sort column's header. | Improve | |
| 2924 | Changed TableExport DDE command structure, and added DDE commands to set the use in processing flag and point name. | Improve | |
| 3035 | The Camera Calibrator now stores a Coverage Bounding Box to describe the point coverage during a calibration. In an ideal calibration, referenced points cover as much of the photo frame as possible, which ensures that the entire camera lens is calibrated to account for variability throughout the lens. The Project Status Report shows a warning if the calibration coverage is below a threshold (ie less than 60% point coverage) and for regular project processing the report lists 3D points that lie outside of the coverage rectangle. Points that lie outside the rectangle may not solve as accurately because the part of the lens outside of the coverage rectangle has not been fully calibrated. You can also view the camera's stored coverage rectangle by setting the Point Coverage visiblity on, on the Marked Tab on the Photo Control. | Improve | |
| 5938 | When exporting a 3D model, if the scale/rotate is invalid, a warning comes up explaining that the coordinate system will be arbitrary. | Improve | |
| 133 | For projects with a large number of surfaces, when opening a new 3D viewer when the previous 3D viewer had surfaces turned on there will no longer be a delay. | Fix | |
| 212 | Fixed an issue where for some photo/cameras the format size starting point in a calibration was not adjusted based on the aspect ratio of the photos passed in. | Fix | |
| 619 | Expanded and more helpful tooltips. | Fix | |
| 693 | Region Select now a temporary mode. | Fix | |
| 715 | Quick reference will no longer allow referencing of surface draw points. | Fix | |
| 832 | Zooming in or out after zooming 1:1 adjusts based on the 1:1 setting not the previous zoom level. | Fix | |
| 858 | Project using parallel line constraints to solve for inverse camera focal length are now a bit more flexible (esp. in the handling of cases where only one pair of marked edges for a particular constraint). That is, focal length should solve more often now in inverse camera single photo constraint projects with low number of edges. | Fix | |
| 896 | The project's Scale/Rotate can now be cleared, not just disabled or invalidated. | Fix | |
| 937 | Lines can now be identified by a unique ID number. | Fix | |
| 1080 | When setting a Rotation axis using Camera Station and a Point, the order of selection is retained and will determine the orientation of the axes (ie left to right vs right to left). This fix only applies to the case where a Camera Station and Point are selected; the order of selection was retained when two points were selected so it worked as expected. | Fix | |
| 1391 | Zoom levels are no longer restricted to increments of 0.5. | Fix | |
| 1573 | The option to show grey backfaces of surfaces can now be turned off for the 3D viewer as well as projections. | Fix | |
| 1615 | If the exif 35mm focal length is used for the format size esimate the aspect ratio will now be forced to match the image. | Fix | |
| 1626 | When running on Windows XP all controls now display using the XP themed style. | Fix | |
| 2043 | The first time a mark is referenced on 2 photos the # of reference marks column in the photo table will update correctly. | Fix | |
| 2323 | When saving an output file (3D export, ortho photo or table export) the default file name will match the project name. | Fix | |
| 2458 | Point Cloud tool is now only enabled when in a select mode AND when there are more than 2 points selected. | Fix | |
| 2598 | The epipolar line will now erase correctly when a photo is zoomed and changes size such that the moue cursor no longer lies over top of it. | Fix | |
| 2678 | Path surfaces have a new option to allow their triangulation to be calculated as NURBS triangles. Related to this a new preference allows for triangulated path surfaces to be exported to IGES as triangular NURBS surfaces. | Fix | |
| 2902 | Changing the user name of a point will also update on photo displays (if IDs are turned on). | Fix | |
| 1299 | If a multi-photo texture uses a photo set with only a single photo in it but the surface does not face this photo the surface will now correctly be assigned the 'points away' color. | Fix | |
| 3016 | Epipolar lines (reference helper line) now properly account for lens distortion so they are now more accurate guides for point alignment when using calibrated cameras (esp. true for wide angle lenses that have significant distortion) | Fix |