ContextCapture User Guide

Touchup Tools

Modify the geometry of selected tiles within ContextCapture.

ContextCapture embeds a dedicated user interface to fix common defects on reference model tiles. Only the geometry can be modified with this tool.

Select a completed tile, and click Touchup Tools to open it in the Touchup user interface.

Touchup user interface: control and fix reference model geometry.

There are two ways to proceed to touchup within this interface:

  1. Select faces and apply fixes.

    Many tools - from basic rectangle to smart selection - are provided to allow accurate facet selection.

    Two fixes are possible: Delete faces, or Erase and Fill.

  2. Use the Mesh Cleaning tool: this tool automatically detects various kind of defects -Holes and Small components- and allow to fix them automatically.

Selection

Rectangle and Lasso

Draw a rectangle or an arbitrary region to select the underlying faces.

Brush

Use a 3D brush to select faces with topology constraints.

Smart Selection

Draw strokes on areas that are in/out your targeted selection

Modify the selection

The selection can be modified with the commands accessible from the Selection menu.

Action on Selection

Delete

Remove the selected faces.

Erase and Fill

Remove the selected faces, and fill the freshly created hole.

Mesh Cleaning

This tool automatically detects various kinds of defect and allows to fix them automatically.

Two types of defects are managed:

  • Holes: cleaning consists in applying a filling algorithm.
  • Small Components: cleaning simply consists in removing corresponding faces.

Mesh Cleaning panel

Mesh cleaning works in 3 steps:

  1. Detect: Select the type of targeted defects and click on Start detection.
  2. Filter: Filter the detected defects according to various criteria.
  3. Control and fix: browse and review detected defects, and choose to fix or ignore them.

Example of small component detected with mesh cleaning tool