Manual Alignment Tools

Follow these instructions to manually align multiple scan data sets together in Cintoo Cloud, or to align your scans and BIM model together if they are not in the same coordinate system.

• A user must be assigned a role with Upload or Delete Reality Data permissions enabled in order to use the Manual Alignment Tools.
• In order to align multiple scan data sets together, each set of scans must be organized into their own individual, separate Work Zone folders. (See step 9 in these instructions)

1. In the 3D View tab, make sure the Work Zone folders containing the 3D data to be aligned are toggled on and the 3D data is visible in the view.

2. Click the Manual Alignment Tools icon in the left toolbar to open the alignment tool.

3. In the To align field, select the data set which the alignment transforms will be applied to.

• All scans applies the alignment modifications to all visible scan files in the 3D View.
• All models applies the alignment modifications to all visible model files in the 3D View.
• Selecting a specific Work Zone folder applies the alignment modifications only to the files contained within the selected Work Zone.

4. In the Reference field, select the data set to use as a reference. Any alignment transforms made will not affect the data assigned in the Reference field.

5. To move the data assigned in the To align field, modify the X-Axis, Y-Axis, and Z-Axis values under Translation.

Type numeric values in the text fields, or hover the mouse cursor above each text field and use the mouse scroll wheel to increase or decrease the values:

• Holding the CTRL key and scrolling the mouse wheel up/down adjusts in increments of +/- 10
• Holding the ALT key and scrolling the mouse wheel up/down adjusts in increments of +/- 0.1
• Holding the SHIFT key and scrolling the mouse wheel up/down adjusts in increments of +/- 0.01

6. To rotate the data assigned in the To align field, click Pick Pivot Point, select a location on the data to use as rotation pivot point, and adjust the X-axis, Y-Axis, and Z-Axis sliders, or type in numeric values in the text field.

• Hover the mouse cursor above each text field and use the mouse scroll wheel to increase or decrease the values. 
• Re-select the pivot point at any time, and select various scan positions to view the rotation adjustment.

7. Use the Visibility slider to adjust the opacity/transparency of each data set and visually check the alignment.

• During the alignment process, navigation in the scene can be in 3D Navi mode or in Scan&Teleport Mode (3D RGB or 3D Surface display mode) to get a more accurate visualization.

8. Once the alignment is satisfactory, click Apply to save it.

Warning: alignment cannot be undone once you click Apply to save it.

If any alignment transforms were applied to scan data, this transformation will carry over and be applied when downloading and exporting the scans from Cintoo as a point cloud (RCP, RCS, E57).

9. To align multiple scan data sets together, assign the Work Zone folder with scans to align in the To align field, and assign the Work Zone folder with scans to use as a reference in the Reference field.

10. Follow the same instructions as steps 5-8 above in order to align the scans together and save the alignment.

• During the alignment process, color overrides can be applied to the data assigned in the To align and Reference fields for a more accurate visualization.