What's new in VRMesh v12.1?

New Features:

• Create Grading (in the Mesh Editing menu): creates a grading surface from a polyline.

• Cut and Fill Volume (in the Mesh Editing menu): accurately calculates the cut and fill volume between two surfaces.

Enhanced Features:

• Point Cloud Classification: is updated to let you add more points to ground.

• Boundary Smoothing: is updated to let you get cleaner boundary.

• Orbit Interaction: is updated to fix the mouse jump incidentally.

What's new in VRMesh v12.0?

New Features:

• Polygon Modeling Module: lets you create and modify polygons on point clouds directly.

• Unwrap Cylinder to Plane (in the Analyze menu): unwraps a cylinder surface to a plane.

• Label Vertex (in the Feature Extraction menu): labels a related vertex with a class name you need.

• Export File: supports *nwc and *gltf.

Enhanced Features:

• Point Cloud to Mesh (in the Point Cloud menu): optimizes edge connection.

• Seam Gaps (in the Mesh Repair menu): optimizes edge connection.

• Visualization (in the Home menu): enables data to load dynamically or load manually with brushing a region.

• Show Points by Classification (in the Analyze menu): allows you to hide the assigned color of a selected class.

What's new in VRMesh v11.8?

• Texture Mapping onto Mesh (in the Mark menu): maps an image onto a surface.

• Emboss Texture (in the Clay menu): embosses a surface according to the luminance value of a texture.

• Normal Brush (in the Clay menu): flips the normal of triangles.

• Smart Form (in the Primitive menu): creates a free-form object.

• Extrude Curve (in the Mesh Editing menu): is updated allowing you to extrude a curve interactively.

• Classify using Widget Box (in the Classification menu): is updated allowing you to place a widget box locally.

• LandXML Format: is supported for import and export.

What's new in VRMesh v11.7?

• Pull/Push Region (in the Mark menu): pushes/pulls a marked region along a specified direction, and calculates cut and fill volumes.

• Expand/Shrink Region (in the Mark menu): expands or shrinks a marked region.

• Create Points on Grid (in the Construction menu): creates points on a grid you defined.

• Auto Save (in the Home > System Setting): recovers the project in case of a crash.

• Boolean (in the Mesh Editing menu): speeds up.

What's new in VRMesh v11.6?

• Batch Wizard: allows you to customize a wizard for batch processing.

• Line Editing (in the Construction menu): allows you to edit the extracted lines as you see fit.

• Add Patch (in the Mesh Repair menu): creates a patch from a drawing and seam it into a target object.

• Texture from Color on Points (in the Mark menu): creates a texture from a colored point cloud.

• Defeature Marked Region (in the Mark menu): inserts orderly meshes into a marked region.

• Cut Overlap (in the Registration menu): removes overlapping data to make sure each xy location has just points from one pass.

• Align Two Contours (in the Registration menu): creates a centerline alignment between two contours on different objects.

• Supports DotProduct DP format and a trajectory format generated from Geodetics LiDAR Drone system.

What's new in VRMesh v11.5?

• Visualization (in the Home menu): enables you to visualize the full resolution points by loading data dynamically, and allows you to walk through a predefined route.

• Sparse Points (in the Classification menu): classifies points which are separated from the majority of points over a defined distance.

• Match Catenary String (in the Feature Extraction menu): moves catenary curves to a point cloud along the Z-direction.

• Drop Surface (in the Registration menu): moves a source surface to a point cloud along the Z-direction.

What's new in VRMesh v11.4?

New Features:

• Extract Section Lines (in the Construction menu): allows you to create a detailed 2D plan on point clouds

• Mark Planes (in the Mark menu): automatically detects planes and marks them

• Mark Parts (in the Mark menu): automatically detects parts and marks them

Enhanced Features:

• Allows you to move a marked part from one class to another class

• Refines triangles using the uniform and adaptive remeshing process

• Groups visible curves into one curve item

• Allows an obj file to import texture generated from a UAV

• Fixes color missing in the two-side meshing process

• Improves arrow navigation

What's new in VRMesh v11.3?

New Features:

• Trace Breaklines between Classes (in the Feature Extraction menu): extracts breaklines between different point cloud classes automatically.

• Classify by Property (in the Classification menu): calculates the property values (Intensity/Slope/Elevation/Curvature) for individual points and reclassifies points.

• Create Ramp (in the Mesh Editing menu): creates a ramp on a terrain surface by selecting two curves.

• Create Road (in the Mesh Editing menu): creates a road on a terrain surface along a curve.

• Show Surface by Property (in the Analyze menu): shows the property value (Intensity/Slope/Elevation/Curvature) of a surface.

• Show Points by Property (in the Analyze menu): shows the property value (Intensity/Slope/Elevation/Curvature) of points.

• Regroup Curves (in the Surface Curve menu): regroups curves into horizontal or vertical group.

• Interaction with histogram: is added allowing you to analyze the region of interest easily.

Enhanced Features:

• Extract Curbs (in the Feature Extraction menu): is redesigned to extract curb breaklines instead of curb centerlines from point clouds.

• Pick Line (in the Feature Extraction menu): adds a Pick Tree item to extract a crown of a chosen tree.

• Extract Powerlines (in the Feature Extraction menu): is updated.

• Extract Poles/Trees (in the Feature Extraction menu): is updated.

• Extract Tree Crowns (in the Feature Extraction menu): is updated.

• Classify Using Brush (in the Classification menu): is updated.

• Detect Planes (in the Classification menu): is updated.

• Boolean (in the Mesh Editing menu): is updated.

• Scalar Label (in the Analyze menu): is updated.

• Adjust Curve (in the Surface Curve menu): is updated allowing you to adjust a polyline.

• IFC file format: is updated.

What's new in VRMesh v11.2?

• Two-sided Mesh (in the Point Cloud menu): generates a two-sided mesh for visualizing large-volume scans.

• Mark by Widget Box (in the Mark menu): marks the region inside a widget box.

• Mark by Polygon (in the Mark menu): marks the area surrounded by a polygon.

• Mark by Slope (in the Mark menu): marks triangles according to their slope.

• Paint Region (in the Mark menu): marks a region that has the same color.

• Trace Breaklines along Markings (in the Mark menu): extracts breaklines from the marked surfaces.

• Walkthrough (in the Home menu): adds walkthrough by arrow keys on Keyboard.

• 3D Mouse: supports 3DConnexion SpaceMouse.

What's new in VRMesh v11.1?

• The import of IFC file is speed up.

• The export of IFC file is supported.

• Remove Float Parts (in the Mesh Repair menu): adds an option for applying to all visible objects.

• Split Marked Region (in the Mark menu): adds an option for splitting all marked regions.

• Separate LiDAR Strips (in the Registration menu): adds more text formats for a trajectory file.

• Decimate Point Clouds (in the Point Cloud menu): is updated to re-index file automatically after the operation.

• Remove Redundant Points (in the Point Cloud menu): is updated to re-index file automatically after the operation.

• High DPI Display: bugs are fixed.

What's new in VRMesh v11.0?

New Features:

• Point Cloud to Mesh (in the Point Cloud menu): provides a new engine of point cloud meshing.

• Detect Floor/Ceiling (in the Construction menu): detects floor/ceiling in point clouds automatically.

• Detect Walls (in the Construction menu): detects walls in point clouds and generates footprint curves automatically.

• Extract Circular Pipes (in the Construction menu): extracts all circular pipes and centerlines from point clouds automatically.

• Extract Rectangular Pipes (in the Construction menu): extracts all rectangular pipes and breaklines from point clouds automatically.

• Extract Lines (in the Construction menu): extracts an intersected line between two planes from point clouds automatically.

• Fit Plane (in the Mesh Editing menu): fits a plane on meshes by clicking three points.

• Sweep Profile (in the Mesh Editing menu): sweeps a profile (or cross-section) curve along path curves to create a surface.

• Revolve Profile (in the Mesh Editing menu): revolves a profile (or cross-section) curve along an axis to create an object.

• Remove Redundant Points (in the Point Cloud menu): deletes redundant points from point clouds.

• Import File: supports *.IFC, *.IGES, *.STEP formats.

Enhanced Features:

• Detect Surface Points (in the Construction menu): is enhanced to detect clean surface points that is helpful for cleaning point cloud data of construction site, building, tunnel, etc.

• Classify Points from LiDAR (in the Classification menu): includes three commands: detect vegetation, detect building roof and clean ground.

• Assign Region Class (in the Classification menu): is speed up.

• Decimate Point Clouds (in the Point Cloud menu): removes the Distance parameter. You can use the Remove Redundant Points command instead.

• Mesh Decimation (in the Mesh Editing menu): the error constraint is updated.

• Fine Two Objects (in the Registration menu): the registration process between CAD model and point clouds is speed up.

• Global Registration (in the Registration menu): is enhanced.

• Widget Box (in the Home menu): is speed up.

What's new in VRMesh v10.3?

New Features:

• Water Catchment command (in the Analyze menu): allows you to calculate the direction water will flow and find a catchment area.

• Execute Analysis Wizard (in the Mesh Repair menu): executes the selected commands in the Analysis wizard. You don't have to open the wizard every time you want to fix a mesh using the same settings.

Enhanced Features:

• Water Flow Path command (in the Analyze menu): adds a parameter helping you set a catchment constraint.

• Measure Length/Area/Slope command (in the Analyze menu): can measure catenary average (equal area) slope.

• Split Marked Region command (in the Mark menu): adds an extraction option.

• Mark Brush/Mark Region command (in the Mark menu): adds an option allowing you to paint color in cells or on vertices.

• Decimation command (in the Mesh Editing menu): adds an option helping you set the maximum absolute error allowed during the decimation process.

• Shortcuts: pressing F5 allows you to make a backup manually. And some bugs are fixed.

• Rendering: some bugs are fixed.

• Transform Widget: a bug is fixed.

• Las 1.4 format in an Index file: a bug is fixed.

• Faro format: is updated.

What's new in VRMesh v10.2?

New Feature:

• Water Flow command (in the Analyze menu): can automatically trace a water flow path from a click position.

Enhanced Features:

• Terrain Resurfacing command (in the Construction menu): adds a Times of Grid parameter that allows you to adjust the resolution of NURBS surfaces.

• Measure Point command (in the Analyze menu): enables you to add text as a label.

• Measure Distance command (in the Analyze menu): can measure both distance and slope.

• Show Points by Slope command (in the Analyze menu): lets you show slope values on a surface and export a screenshot to a PDF file.

• Pick Road Markings command ( inside Pick Line widget in the Feature Extraction menu): is enhanced to trace polylines based on colored points from intensity.

• Vertex Color to Texture command (in the Mark menu): adds an option that allows you to adjust the size of a region for the conversion.

• Walkthrough command (in the Home menu): adds an option that lets you walk through your route faster and easier.

• Zoom Window command (in the Home menu): a bug is fixed.

What's new in VRMesh v10.1?

New Features:

• Terrain Resurfacing command (in the Construction menu): fits a spline surface on a terrain surface with the control of slope and elevation.

• Generate Profile command (in the Construction menu): lets you draw a profile curve directly in the cross section viewport.

• Reclassify Regions command (in the Classification menu): reclassifies points according to the region size within a defined search range.

• Temporary folder: is added in the System Setting panel. Users may set a specific folder to hold temporary processing files instead of the default temporary folder in Windows.

• RCP format: is added allowing you to directly import/export point clouds from/to an Autodesk index file.

Enhanced Features:

• Clean Ground Points command (in the Classification menu): is speeded up for processing terrestrial laser scanning data.

• Assign Region Class command (in the Classification menu): is speeded up and allows you to reclassify region points within a search range.

• Detect Planes command (in the Classification menu): allows you to define a minimum/maximum size for plane detection.

• Classify By Centerline command (in the Classification menu): allows you to set two search ranges to reclassify points to different classes.

• Classify Using Brush command (in the Classification menu): allows you to classify points within an appropriate cylinder along Z-axis.

• Classify By Isolated Points command (in the Classification menu): is updated with a better workflow.

• Fit Curbs command (in the Mesh Editing menu): allows you to define a desired curb height and lets the fitted curb align to the bottom of the original curb.

• Create Spline Patch command (in the Mesh Editing menu): allows you to fit and modify a surface patch.

• Stitch Gap command (in the Mesh Repair menu): is speeded up.

• Measure Deviation command (in the Analyze menu): is updated with better labeling.

• Inspection command (in the Analyze menu): is updated with better labeling and allows you to export a screenshot to a PDF file.

• Triangle to Quads command (in the NURBS menu): is redesigned based on the field computing on meshes.

• Orbit: enables you to hold [Ctrl] to orbit camera around Z-axis.

• LAZ native format: is supported based on the LAZ library.

What's new in VRMesh v10.0?

New Features:

Construction menu:

• Fit Curb/Edge/Profile commands: fit a polygonal curb/edge/profile to point clouds. Breaklines will be created automatically.

• Fit Circular/Rectangular Pipe commands: fit a polygonal pipe to point clouds. Pipe centerline will be created automatically.

• Extend command: extends the length of a fitted object.

• Connect command: connects two fitted objects together.

• Extract Plane command: extracts planes from point clouds to let you create a low-poly building.

• Extract Surface Points command: removes small parts from point clouds to get desired surface points.


Classification menu:

• Classify Using Widget Box command: classifies point clouds in a desired region using a widget box.

Enhanced Features:

• Curve editing tools are improved.

• Some bugs are fixed.

• A maximum of 64 cores is supported.