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Welcome

The RealWorks family of products is composed of RealWorks Viewer ,

RealWorks Base , RealWorks Advanced , RealWorks Advanced-Modeler ,

RealWorks Advanced-Plant and RealWorks Advanced-Tank.

RealWorks Viewer

This is a software tool for visualizing and exploring as-built data acquired by laser scanning technologies. In general, such a data set contains a 3D point cloud and optionally a collection of 2D images. This software tool allows you to load as many point clouds as needed. Each point of a point cloud can contain not only its 3D coordinates, but also other attributes such as intensity and surface normal. You can visualize a point cloud in 3D, rotate, pan or zoom in/out in order to explore it in detail. Visualization can be enhanced in different ways: points shaded by intensity, by color or by its normal, according to a view, etc. You can also compare a 3D point cloud with 2D images (if available).

When images are registered with the 3D point cloud, you can visualize both data sets from the point of view from which the images were captured.

Features also available in RealWorks Viewer are:

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Registration report and station visualization,

 Sampling tool,

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Segmentation tool,

 UCS Creation tool and set as Home Frame ,

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Measure tool,

 Cutting Plane tool,

Tip: RealWorks Viewer is free. You can download it from the Trimble website.

You only need to fill the form that will come after clicking the link to download.

Note: You cannot save with RealWorks Viewer .

Note: RealWorks Viewer requires an RWP project file and its associated RWP folder. For more options relating to collaborating and sharing, see the Publisher function in certain modules.

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RealWorks

This software tool provides you with a set of tools for processing 3D point clouds and 2D images in order to obtain the necessary information for your applications (or projects). Generally, this processing can be divided into three modes: Registration ,

OfficeSurvey™ and Modeling .

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In Registration , you can register scans with respect to other scans and/or with respect to a set of survey points. The registration method is either target-based or cloud-based. When some targets have been used, you can first check and modify them. Then the Target-Based Registration Tool automatically registers them simultaneously. The results are validated through registration errors, which can be saved in a report. You can also use the Geo-Referencing Tool to put the scanned data into a known coordinate system.

 In OfficeSurvey ™, you can extract different types of 2D drawings

(polylines, contours, cross-sections, profiles, etc.) from the point clouds.

These extracted results can then be exported into CAD systems including, but not limited to, AutoCAD® and MicroStation®. You can select and match 2D images to the point clouds; generate one (or multi) orthoimage(s) or collect survey points as Total Stations can do. You can generate triangular meshes from the point clouds and if required, carry out further editing of the result(s). You can determine the volume of a point cloud (or a mesh), the volume between two point clouds (or two meshes) or the volume between a point cloud and a mesh. If the volume information is not enough, you can compare two surfaces between each other (two point clouds or meshes together, a point cloud with a mesh or a point cloud/mesh with a model) and generate an inspection map. Since the metric information is still in the inspection map, you can extract measurements like surfaces, volumes, points, drawings like polylines, sections, shifts, colored meshes, iso-curves, etc. You can match a profile

(2D curve, cross-section, polyline, etc.) at a specific point and in a given direction in a 3D scene; easily extract profiles along curbs, pavements, rail lines, cuttings, natural features, etc. or fit a set of points with a geometry which can be of planar, spherical or cylinder shape.

 In Modeling , you can create a geometry of following types: Sphere , Plane ,

Cylinder , etc. The creation can be based on a point cloud selection (or not). The created geometry can be then duplicated, modified, moved, etc.

A sub-module including tools for modeling pipes and structural steelworks

(with the notion of catalogs) has been added.

Welcome

All RealWorks products can support a huge amount of points. The user is able to precisely control which points are loaded into memory and thus which are available for editing with all the regular tools. All RealWorks products include tools for managing Trimble FX data; importing TZS scans, automatically creating station(s) on import with link to TZS; creating scans, extracting targets, registering the created stations, creating sampled scans with spatial resolution, converting to Trimble LASERGen format.

The user interface has been completely redesigned to incorporate a ribbon with larger icons and a Quick Access Toolbar.

In this layout configuration, The

Office Survey and Modeling modes have been combined into a new Production mode.

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