Bentley Descartes CONNECT Edition

Smart Snap tool settings

SettingDescription
Point and Depth

Enable or disable Smart Snap processing

Smart Snap searches for points inside the search cylinder and locates the key point based on the settings.

  • Lowest Point — find the lowest point in the search cylinder and move the cursor to the point location.

    KEY-IN: POINTCLOUDADV SMARTSNAP LOWESTPOINT
  • Highest Point — find the highest point in the search cylinder and move the cursor to the point location.

    KEY-IN: POINTCLOUDADV SMARTSNAP HIGHESTPOINT
  • Lowest Depth — find the lowest point in the search cylinder and move the cursor to be at the same depth (along the Direction) as the found point.

    KEY-IN: POINTCLOUDADV SMARTSNAP LOWESTDEPTH
  • Highest Depth — find the highest point in the search cylinder and move the cursor to be at the same depth (along the Direction) as the found point.

    KEY-IN: POINTCLOUDADV SMARTSNAP HIGHESTDEPTH
  • Average Depth — compute the average depth along the direction of all the points inside the search cylinder and move the cursor to the computed depth.

    KEY-IN: POINTCLOUDADV SMARTSNAP AVERAGE
  • Median Depth — compute the median depth along the direction of all the points inside the search cylinder and move the cursor to the computed depth.

    KEY-IN: POINTCLOUDADV SMARTSNAP MEDIAN
Radius

Radius in master units (tip: dynamically measure on the point cloud to set this parameter by clicking on the icon)

KEY-IN: POINTCLOUDADV SMARTSNAP RADIUS [ <Radius> ]
Height

Height in master units (tip: dynamically measure on the point cloud to set this parameter by clicking on the icon)

KEY-IN: POINTCLOUDADV SMARTSNAP HEIGHT [ <Height> ]
Snap Directon

Direction (Along Z axis or View 1 to 8)

KEY-IN: POINTCLOUDADV SMARTSNAP DIRECTION [ <ViewNumber> ]
Display Cylinder

Toggles On\Off the display of the search cylinder.

Tip: toggle the display on while you adjust tool parameters and then disable it for faster display.

KEY-IN: POINTCLOUDADV SMARTSNAP DIRECTION [ <ViewNumber> ]
KEY-IN: POINTCLOUDADV SMARTSNAP TOGGLE ON
KEY-IN: POINTCLOUDADV SMARTSNAP TOGGLE OFF