What's New?
Update 17
- Speed up of reconstruction (20% to 40% speed gain depending on projects).
- Aerotriangulation: use positioning metadata during matching to improve robustness.
- Aerotriangulation: improved robustness for rig setups.
- Aerotriangulation: improved handling of disconnected components.
- Upload/Download point clouds as PWCS ScanCollection.
- JobQueue revamp: improved job queue performance (now based on a database).
- Block 3D view/touchup UI measurement tools update/improved UX.
- Add the possibility to use point clouds in orthophotos.
Update 16
- New Touchup tools.
- New alternate AT engine available as Preset.
- New 3Dmesh format "OpenCities Planner".
- New Block Export to Orbit 3DSM.
- New function to merge tiled orthophotos and DSM.
- Quality Control UI now available in ContextCapture edition.
- New Reference Manager. Enabling cloud synchronization of Image Collections and updated reference manager UI.
- Optimized reconstruction for vertical structure captured following orbit path.
- Speed up of reconstruction (average 20% speed gain).
Update 15
- New orthophoto workflow based on dedicated reconstruction type, including a new texturing algorithm that greatly improves the visual quality.
- New aerotriangulation positioning mode management; enhanced control over adjustment and rigid registration steps.
- Revamped block 3D view with new user interface and tools, including lock on photo, quality metrics, editing tools for tie points, full resolution photo display, grid display, etcetera.
- Automatic detection and generation of water constraints, available in a dedicated production (Technlology preview).
- Block Import tool extended to ProjectWise ContextShare.
- SDK now included in the ContextCapture edition.
- New capability of merging point clouds into a unique LAS or POD file.
- Automatic control point registration extended to include compact tags.
Update 14
- ContextCapture Cloud Processing Console embedded in the installer.
- New function "Process on the cloud" to ease project migration on the cloud.
- Processing time report on productions.
- New Share dialog to manage publication to ProjectWise ContextShare, and new formats supported for sharing (OBJ, LAS/LAZ, FBX, POD, Orthophoto/DSM, DGN, ESRI SLPK).
Update 13
- Scan import now supports scans with unknown unique source position (auto detection of source position) and POD format.
- New types of tags supported for target autodetection: Chili Tags and April Tags.
- New quality metrics in block 3D view (camera and survey points colorization according to error, distance to input position).
- Improved performance and robustness of multipass aerotriangulation (now by default).
- Other bug fixes and improvements.
- ContextCapture Insights EAP.
Update 12
- Splats: new textured 3D representation of tiepoints; available in a block after aerotriangulation.
- New compressed block exchange format XMLZ.
- Added support for mobile scan format NavVis PLY.
- Support of local coordinate system with known unit (for all production workflow from scale constraint, control points, etcetera.).
- Photo Navigation, a new block 3D view mode.
- Grid computing now supported in ContextCapture edition (limited to 2 computers).
Update 11
- New licensing system based on Bentley CONNECT licensing.
- Upgraded internal component Bentley Powerplatform.
Update 10
- Hybrid registration photos/point clouds: new aerotriangulation positioning modes to register photos using point clouds.
- New Surveys user interface with enhanced ergonomics and user assistance.
- Multi-scale constraints.
- Coverage map (Quality report).
Update 9
- Production clipping based on region of interest
- New MasterKernel SDK packaging with python wheel
- New block type "Orbit" to optimize processing of scenes made of orbital views around a thin structure (cell tower, pylon, wind turbine, etc.)
- Improved quality report/acquisition report (side views, distance to input positions, uncertainty ellipses, color flags, expandable sections...)
- New reconstruction setting: texture source priority
- New production option: texture sharpening
- Surveys: new import wizard, added support of Propeller format
- Region of interest import from DGN format
- New web application ContextCapture Web
- Viewer 2.0 for Cesium productions
Update 8
- Photo multiselection in the block's 3Dview (shift/ctrl keys, rectangle, by tie point).
- Faster Aerotriangulation and reconstruction.
- Measurements in US survey feet (new unit system settings).
- Survey points multiselection (for deletion/edition).
- New camera orientation option for block XML export.
- Enhanced aerotriangulation report.
- Extended/improved LOD production across tiles: now supports any kind of tiling (3D, adaptive tree, etcetera).
- New reconstruction settings to use only point clouds for geometry.
- Surveys data import/export including control and user tie points with measurements and positioning constraints.
[beta] New Aerotriangulation preset dedicated to fine structures (eg. telecom towers, pylons).
- Spatial reference system support for touchup and reconstruction constraints.
- New production 3D view tab.
- Surface/Volume measurement.
- Export of 3D mesh with texture and level-of-detail to GoogleEarth KML.
- Export of orthophoto to KML super-overlay.
- Interoperability with Bentley platform: Pointools POD, 3MX support in MicroStation Connect.
- Block merging (ability to merge two existing blocks from the user interface).
For more details, view the full changelog (doc/ContextCapture ChangeLog.txt) in ContextCapture installation directory.