Bloom Cloud Engine

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Release Notes

V6.0

- Create Markers at Project Base point and Survey Base point when importing from Revit

- Enhanced Volume tool for point clouds. Datum reference may be a view clipping box (plane) or a 3d surface

- New create "Polygon" tool creates an n-sided surface by drawing vertices

- Connect scan centers with polyline using My menu script "Station Map" 

- Import raw scans directly from Azure storage accounts using directory URL

- Upgraded Azure libraries with new authorization

- Context LMB menu "Make plane here" to create plane from CAD model

- New tool to move objects using markers

- Import viewpoints from Navisworks using plugin

- Custom markers are supported in C:\ProgramData\BloomCE\CustomMarkers directory

- Each marker type creates a new layer, to toggle its visibility

- Enhanced text marker with control of font size

- Enhanced hyperlink support for markers

- Sychronize uploaded published data with desktop using Publish->Metadata->Update button

- Data efficient publishing of panoramic images

- Support to import scan data from URI and Azure SAS Url, to help users import scan data

  directly from cloud

- Direct import of zipped file containing scan data i.e. [.e57], [.fls], [.tzf]

- Import NavVis and GeoSLAM e57 data with embedded pano images

- Import Trimble TDX zipped packaged format with scan data and geo-located image "tags"

- Import Trimble TSX zipped packaged format with .tzf scan data

- Import Trimble TSX zipped packaged format with 360 jpeg image data

V5.2

- Support for Autocad, Revit & Navisworks 2023

- Improved startup connection between Revit and CloudEngine

- Improved interactive line creation

- Export Section Offset results to Excel and manually delete spurious output

- Click to create a plane on CAD using CADMakePlane.click.script

- Fix for lines being imported twice into Revit

- CAD drawings get clipped correctly when publishing

- Embedded image support for Dot Product import

- Fix to a specific IFC crash file

- Fix to transform of plane for floor flatness

- search tolerance for spherical registration

V5.1.1

- CAD mesh can be published in wireframe mode

- Efficient line drawing mode in browser when publishing CAD

- Fix to section offset when units are not in meter

- Fix to e57 importer for large coordinate values

- Support for import of GEOSLAM pano images

- Check registration tool to report registration errors between successive scans

- Fixes to handle large number of markers

- Panoramic (360) image workflow improvements

- Fix to IFC import for missing elements

- Fix to Section offset tool (2974)

- Fix to set details on unified scans (2977)

V5.0

- Familiar Ribbon Style UI design, with option to place Objectlister on left or right side

- Section offset tool to compute individual offsets between CAD parts and its pointcloud with results exported to revit/acad/navisworks

- Volume calculation

- Separation of Animation Tool from Transform Tool to improve clarity

- Separation of Line Tool from Shapes tool

- Separation of CAD-CAD Clash Tool from CAD-PointCloud Clash Tool

- added URL links to marker import from Excel

- Support for Trimble TDX and TSX format

- Import zip file containing e57 and ptx format files

- Import dwf format

- Copy/Paste rows of XYZ coordinates from Excel into CloudEngine to create markers

- support normals with csv import

- PointCloud colored points through Object select tool

- Large coordinates in .obj format

- Show orientation of clicked point while dimensioning

- Auto save control from Preferences panel

Bug fixes

- Optimize large IFC file import

- Save file periodically while importing large number of scans

- Fix to deviation from Cylinder

- Python3 support

- Units fix in Pts import

- Correct deletion of CAD vertices

- transparency on CAD can be reset correctly

- Important fix for Azure upload problem, which was triggered by Windows update on some users machine.

V4.1

- Important fix for Azure upload problem, which was triggered by Windows update on some users machine.

- Import normals with csv file using Markers Tool-> Import from Excel.

- Bugfix for measuring deviation from a plane object.

- added python script for reporting deviation between successive pointclouds

V4.0
- Autodesk Navisworks plugin
- Ability to download pointcloud data from our website, directly into Autocad, Revit, Navisworks using a new plugin installer
- Enhancements for LAS 1.4 spec 
- Faro version update
- Autocad 2022 support
- Copy animation from a node and paste it to another node
- Webplayer: support for diff-ing between panoramic images with a slider
- Webplayer: ability to cull view from two sides. For example, see just one floor
- Webplayer: ability of project owners to invite other project memebers with read/write permission

V3.6

- Bloom Explorer install now requires admin priviledges 

- e57 Pano images import from Faro Scene fixed for parameterization error

- Bugfix for broken camera on computing prop E of TR34 specification

- Animation can be copy pasted between nodes with similar transform.

- LAS Point Classification defined by the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing for LAS formats 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4

- Model View (scope box) conversion to geometry box on context menu

- Volume calculation of "cut" and "fill" with ASTM 1155 floor analysis

V3.0

- Generation of panoramic images in E57 import from embedded images

- Usability improvements to Deviation output

- Enhancements to TR34 Floor analysis

- Enhancements to Web viewer

- Bug fix for correct mime type when uploading to Azure

- Faster panoramic images for web

V2.7

- Easier measurement interaction in Web sharing view

- Fix for: certain datasets in e57 had coincident points and missing points

- Zfs import shows color for missing depth pixels as well, when creating 360 images

- Fix for login to Autodesk Assemble

- Import Navisworks xml files to import viewpoints

- Viewpoint Objects in ObjectLister. You can create them using Camera tool or importing Autodesk Navisworks files.

- Upload manager in Content Sharing tool with monitoring of upload

- Improvements to local webviewer

- Fix for incongruent IFC elements, which failed to retrieve entire file

- New pointcloud streaming for web sharing. Supports higher resolution pointcloud.

- New optimized nodes that prevent overlapping points

- picking points using a circle, which is created on 3rd point input.

V2.5

- Faro sdk update

- BloomExplorer enables keeping executable with the shared folder on LAN setting

- Snap Tool is available as a plugin

- Autocad 2021 support

- Revit 2021 support

- 360 views with Faro files shows color info, even if depth information is missing

- Optimized node can be created at an orientation

- Elevation color tool enhanced

- Fixed issues with DWG 2D wireframe import

- Floor flatness 45 degree lines to longest edge don't have to be equal in length

- Generate grid points on line.

- Selected points invert in modelview, do not affect points outside

- Increased stability for Xeon processor

- Webclient measurement fix in 360 mode

- High resolution spherical scans supported better in webclient

- Improved Z lock on registration

- Upload and rendering of 360 images improved by using jpeg

- Option to add a sky texture to the background of 360  images

- Text markers available

V2.4

- Deviation lines on floor flatness lines

- Create elbows on fitted pipes, snap fitted pipes to ASTM standard, edit fitted pipe radius to re-fit point selection

- ModelViews that are accessible anywhere in the interface to quickly narrow down into selected points or objects (see keyboard assignments).

- Fill color for black/missing points in a 360 image for .rcp and .tzf formats.

- Enhanced deviation reporting at a specific point locations.

- Support for importing TIMMS 360 images through a python script.

- Slab evaluation according to TR34 concrete specification.

- Fit planes and intersect them to create theoretical intersection lines and corner points.

- Enhanced import of .dwg file, with UI selection if the model matches "Project Internal" or "Shared coordinates" of an Autocad or Revit model.

- SelectByObject context menu in Object Lister to select points around a CAD object.

- Fixed scaling of imported images.

- Fixed import of CSV file to create markers.

- Coordinate system issues with Autocad and Revit

V2.2.1

- Fixes to Autodesk Assemble login

- Fixes to contour with improvements to quality as well as export to Autocad

V2.2

- Extended enhancements to BloomExplorer and browser based sharing application.

- Faster upload and download of pointcloud from Assemble, Bloom Cloud Server, and Microsoft Azure Cloud Storage.

- Faster download of large CAD models from Assemble, Bloom Cloud Server, and Microsoft Azure Cloud Storage.

- New Autodesk Single-Sign-On for Assemble portal

- Adjusted file size control on published point clouds. This is supported by faster downloads from cloud storage.

- RCP/RCS Import Enhancements: Import RCP or selected RCS files, Reload selected RCS files.

- Contour Cut Lines for pointcloud with MyScripts plugin.

- Fixed better licensing error checks.

- Fixed improved CAD lighting and rendering in the browser.

- Fixed stable Object Lister and faster scrolling.

V2.1.0.1413

- Fixed loading details on unified scans

- Fixed measurement on 360 images in webexplorer

V2.1.0.1401

- Fixed Microsoft Azure connectivity issue

- RCP import: fixed transform error with un-gridded data

V2.1.0.1393

- NEW! Autodesk plugins will install with the desktop. 

- Logical names for Tool access (eg. type "move" to access Transform Tool or "mm" set the until to be millimeters). A complete list of logical names are available here.

- Camera Orbit on left mouse button using Ctrl key plus left mouse button

- Improvements to Sketch Tool polylines for construction geometry.

- Improvements to Dimension and Marker placement.

- "Cut & Paste" support (bloom, excel, text edit) with Markers, Transform Tool, Set Pivot, etc. 

V2.0.0.1229

- Faster rendering of CAD geometry into composite 360 images 

- Colorize imported wireframe entities

- Fit mesh surface (MyScripts\MakeMesh) to survey network point or selected point grid 

V2.0.0.1204

- Bug fix for handling of texture map memory in 360 images.

- Bug fix for [.pts] file import when intensity value is [0] and rgb values are present.

- Bug fix for [.ifc] file import with large poly counts.

V2.0 Release

- It is recommended the all 1.5 or 1.6 version of the application be uninstalled before the installation of 2.0.

- Support for 360 image view of structured laser scan data and 360 camera image within desktop. Also review ObjectLister.

- Registration target placement has been replaced with Cycler button in ObjectLister and on screen interface.

- Right mouse click on model sets camera rotation pivot.

- Dynamic drawing aids for dimensions, lines, and markers. Surface normal is displayed for placement point.

V1.6.4 Latest Release

- Support for Microsoft Cloud Azure storage

- Import DWG and DGN files

- RCP file can be published to Bloom Explorer for sharing

- W,A,S,D game mode navigation. The 'S' keyboard shortcut for Point Selection has been changed to 'P'.

V1.6.1 Latest Release

- PTX import with registration transforms fixed

- crash fix for rotate of group node by numeric input and a workflow within optimized node creation

- Support for 360 image capture and publishing

- UCS for deleted geometry, does not affect UCS of re-imported geometry

- Enhanced deviation map and contour lines. Also has improved brush point selection.

- Autodesk Revit scope boxes, used to control the crop region of a view, are translated to saved Model Views

- Bug fix: noise removal when importing .e57 and .rcp files

- Section Offset tool: Validation of CAD column/wall offset from Scandata

- Export hyperlinked webviews.

- Deviation reporting to Excel in a grid format for  planes (floors & walls), pipes, elbows (spools), and spheres.

- Upgrade of libraries. If you revert back to 1.6.0 or less, you will have to uninstall this version or later, only then you can install previous versions.

- Panoramic scan and sitemap views.

- Publish to Local Area Network and access with Bloom Explorer App.

- Multi object animation. Supports editing of keyframes on each object.

- Create sphere and spherical grid for measuring deviation of spherical vessels.