Hello TBC’ers! With the release of Trimble Business Center v. 2023.1 loads of new features have been added to help improve user workflows and the capabilities of TBC. Check out this link here to learn more about these new features, but this tip is going to focus on just one new tool for manipulating point clouds. This new tool is the “Advanced Point Cloud Filtering” tool, which can be applied to any point cloud to create a new point cloud region using elevation as the defining parameter. This is especially helpful for creating a “ground” class from a point cloud that excludes all grasses and low lying vegetation. Here are the basic steps for this workflow.
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Open the “Advanced Point Cloud Filtering” tool.
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Select the point cloud region(s) to be filtered.
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Name new point cloud region.
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Select desired “Filtering Options”.
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Specify the filtering options, starting with cell size.
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Next, select the desired filtering strategy.
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Lastly, pick the XY position of filtered points.
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If applicable, select filter by polyline and set the polyline settings.
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If more specific parameters are desired, this is possible directly in the command.
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Users can also open up advanced settings to exclude certain points.
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Minimum Point Cloud Density: this option ignores a user defined minimum number of points in a cell.
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Outlier Point Filter: this option can help eliminate noise points using a soft, moderate, or strong filter.
7. Click “Filter” at the bottom of the “Advanced Point Cloud Filtering” pane and that's the command!
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