View and navigate in the 3D interface
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Hold the hotkey (Ctrl/cmd
by default) and click and drag, or simply click and drag the right mouse button.
Use hotkeys (w
, a
, s
, d
, Shift + W
, Shift + S
by default) to move the camera.
Change the key pan speed in the .
By default, map panning is enabled, which means the camera pans along the ground plane. E.g. when you pan up by clicking and dragging, or press w
, the camera moves forwards.
When screen panning is enabled, the camera moves along the screen (i.e. along the camera plane). E.g. when you pan up by clicking and dragging, or press w
, the camera moves up.
You can change the panning mode in the .
Hold the hotkey (Shift
by default) and click and drag.
The rotation point is initialized at the center of the point cloud.
You can manually set the rotation point by middle-clicking on any point of the point cloud. The changed rotation point will then be visible for a short time.
Scroll using the mouse wheel to zoom in/out.
Double-click in the viewer to zoom in.
Press the hotkey (Shift
by default) + double-click in the viewer to zoom out.
Select the object.
Press the hotkey (t
by default).
Hover over the object you want to hide/show in the objects sidebar.
Press the eye icon.
Press the hotkey (h
by default).
Press the hotkey (Ctrl/cmd + b
by default).
Press the hotkey (Ctrl/cmd + i
by default).
Click the dropdown in the top right corner of the side view.
Select the new view you want to change to.
Click on the ground plane to starting point.
When you move your cursor to another point on the ground plane the distance measurement will be shown in the bottom right panel of the sidebar. This measurement is in meters if the scale of your point cloud is true to life.
Click again to go back to "Select and edit" tool or press Esc
.
The focus beam tool helps you to locate objects in the 3D point cloud via the calibrated camera images. It renders a beam in the 3D space corresponding to a specific location in an image.
Open a specific camera image by clicking on the thumbnail or open the image grid.
Move your cursor to a point of interest in the image and press the focus beam hotkey (Shift + z
by default).
Go back to the 3D point cloud view. A focus beam should have appeared.
To remove the focus beam, press the hotkey again while not hovering over an image.
If you , the rotation point will move to the center of that object.
Click on the camera icon () in the toolbar on the right, or press the hotkey (v
by default).
Click on the ruler icon () in the toolbar on the right, or press the hotkey (z
by default).