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MANUAL VOLUMES & ISOLINES TOOLS APP

Manual

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Introduction

The Volume and Isoline APP is the ideal solution for surveyors, geologists and land engineers, who want to use the FARO laser scanner to create digital terrain models, calculate volume and cut&fill of stock piles, excavation, open pit mines, tanks and extract isolines and sections ready for CAD.

Stock Pile

Tanks

Open pits, excavations

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A set of tools, guided by dedicated wizards, support the user during the generation of digital terrain models (DTMs) with de-spiking and fill holes functionalities; an innovative 3D mesh allows to create close meshes of tanks or caves.

Starting from DTMs or mesh models, multiple cross section or isolines can be rapidly extracted as polines exportable in dxf format.

The user is guided by a dedicated wizard to compute the volume underlying a surface and above a reference altitude, or above a surface and below a reference altitude; the result can be saved in a customizable pdf report.

Starting from two mesh models a dedicated tool calculates cut and fill values . It is also possible to subdivide the volumes calculation according to regular benches, and to compute cut and fill for each bench.

The result can be saved in a customizable pdf report where the user can insert details about the dataset acquisition and processing, along with any additional notes

Benefits

• Guided procedure for DTM creation with hole filling and despiking to remove noise effects • Interactive procedure to calculate volume and cutt&fill with pdf report • Isoline and cross sections as polilines exportable in DXF • 3D mesh for tanks and caves

Important reminders

• Connection with other Gexcel APPs: o The Volume and Isolines Tools APP can be perfectly integrated with the Automatic

Alignment Tools APP. With the combination of the two APPs, you can start from the raw *. fls data, align, geo-reference, and then create DTMs and calculate volume and cut&fill in single, complete workflow.

o In combination with the Volume and Isoline APP, you can also use the LineAPP Notes, available on the Apple APP iStore, to support your scanning activity on field. On your IPad you can control your FARO Laser scanner, import plan views of your site, notes scans positions and share the on field project with the . LineAPP Notes speeds up the automatic registration process especially in complex and large environments.

• Connection with FARO Scene: the Volume and Isolines Tools APP can start from *.fls processes in FARO SCENE. If you are using *.fls processed in FARO SCENE, please remember to save the SCENE project and possibly to compact all revisions into one single revision in order use the *.fls with the latest changes (in FARO SCENE see "Clean Up and Compact Scan Project" command)

• System requirements: if you run the APP on a lap top with 2 graphic cards (a default one, and a high performance one), if the following warning appears, please verify to run the APP with the high performance one. You can click on the APP icon and choose to run the application with the high performance graphic card and/or change the graphic card setting to include the APP.

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How to install

Download the VOLUME_AND_ISOLINES_TOOLS.exe from the APP main page or from the following link

Copy locally the executable and press on it. The installation wizard starts:

Click Next to proceed.

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Please accept the term of the License Agreement and press next.

Select the installation folder or (suggested) leave the default one, pressing next to go on.

Choose the default start menu folder and press Next. The installation starts automatically; at the end of the process press Finish.

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The following icon will appear in your desktop to run the APP.

How to license the APP

Run the software by pressing the icon on your desktop .

The following window appears:

You can alternatively open the demo project by pressing "Open project"

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or to create a new empty project, pressing "New project" and then "Browse" to select a new folder where saving the project. Create and select a new folder; the project will have the name of the defined folder.

The software starts as a free viewer. Press "Help"->"License manager" from the top menubar.

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When you are in the "License Manager" press "Activate product key..."

and insert the code you have received when you have purchased the APP in the Activation window.

Please remember to be on line with your PC during the activation phase.

If the activation runs successful the following message appears "License activated successfully".

In case of activation problems please go back to the "License Manager" and press "Create .c2v license file" and choose "Install new SL key".

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The APP generates a *.c2v file.

Please sent to support@gexcel.it :

• the *.v2c file • the activation code you have received at the APP purchase

Input/Output

• The APP import raw *.fls files that are registered in FARO SCENE or using the Automatic Alignment Tools APP

• If you are using *.fls processed in FARO SCENE, please remember to save the SCENE project and possibly to compact all revisions into one single revision in order use the *.fls with the latest changes (in FARO SCENE see "Clean Up and Compact Scan Project" command)

• Mesh and CAD model in *.dxf, *.3DS, *.IFC, *.ply, *.wrml, *.stl, *.txt • DTMs and mesh models can be export in • Volume and Cut&Fill calculation are reported in customizable pdf and with numerical values • Cross section and isoline are exportable in *.dxf, *.3DS, *.ply, *.wrml, *.stl, *.txt

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Step by step video tutorial

To rapidly learn how to use the APP we suggest to download the demo data set from the following link:

Raw *.fls data (530 KB)

Demo project (2.5 Gb)

You can then follow 4 video tutorials that describe step by step how to use the APP.

The first video tutorial describes how to use the App for Volume and Isolines to create digital terrain models of a stock pile.

The second video tutorial describes how extract cross section and isolines from the DTM created using the scans data. Let's start now with the first step.

The third video tutorial describes how to calculate the volume of a stock pile. The same tool can be used to calculate excavation volumes or tank volumes. The fourth video tutorial describes how to calculate the cut and fill volume between two digital terrains models of the same area where changes occurred in time.

TUTORIAL1

TUTORIAL2

TUTORIAL3

TUTORIAL4

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