About Tags in Cintoo

Modified on Tue, 12 Nov at 9:59 AM

TABLE OF CONTENTS

As-Builts for Asset Management
About Tags in Cintoo
Tag Capacity
Permissions
Creating Tags in Cintoo
Cintoo Tag Data Model
Tag Explorer

As-Builts for Asset Management

An essential part of Digital Twin workflows for Asset Management is utilizing the scanned as-builts to tag your equipment rather than just the CAD models that may not be up to date. This allows users to link physical equipment or parts to their digital counterpart, and in combination with other business data, make decisions which optimize the process and performance.

The Reality Capture data also provides the context, which the CAD model often does not. What is going on around a machine or equipment in the built environment may affect accessibility when repairs or replacement must happen. This context from the Reality Capture data also validates that the model or twin is accurate, and therefore reliable, or not. When built on top of 3D reality capture data, Asset Management’s decision-making process is greatly improved by increasing the organization’s efficiency, effectiveness and safety as well as reducing rework and downtime.

About Tags in Cintoo

A ‘tag’ in Cintoo references an object or equipment that has a unique ID, an XYZ location, a bounding box, and various metadata which will be used in your Asset Management workflows.

A tag is part of a list. There can be several lists of tags in a single Cintoo project. Metadata for a tag refers to its attributes such as labels, class of tags, description, hyperlinks to Digital Twin, ERP and EAM platforms.

Tags can be viewed in their as-built context using Cintoo's 3D View.

Tags can be searched based on any content listed in the ID and metadata. Each tag can be seen from one or more scan setups, or from any 3D position in the mesh-based scan data. Lists of tags can be exported from Cintoo together with the scan or 3D view corresponding to each tag in the list. Lists of tags and individual tags can be updated programmatically using Cintoo APIs. See Accessing the Cintoo Cloud API for more details.

Tag Capacity

To use Cintoo's Asset Tagging & Display tools, you must be entitled with a certain tag capacity, the same way that you need a certain scan capacity to upload scans.

All Cintoo accounts will have 50 free tags to start using the tools. If you need a higher capacity, please contact sales@cintoo.com.

Cintoo Administrators can see tag capacity by going to Administration > Subscriptions:

Permissions

Cintoo's Asset Tagging & Display tools are associated with two permissions:

Manage tags: Import, create, edit and delete tags
- Default setting: Permission given to BIM / VDC Manager role
View tags: View and export tags
- Default setting: Permission given to BIM / VDC Manager and Engineer / Modeler roles

Project Managers, Admins or Co-Admins can create custom roles to extend these permissions to other categories. See Users & Permissions for more details.

Creating Tags in Cintoo

To provide the greatest value to Asset Management in Digital Twin workflows, Cintoo provides a set of Asset Tagging & Display (ATD) tools which includes a Tag Explorer and three ways to tag your assets:

Cintoo Tag Data Model

Cintoo's set of Asset Tagging and Display tools leverages an open tag data model that can be tailored to each company’s needs. You can create as many lists of tags as needed, with up to 20 custom tag metadata fields in each tag list. Metadata can be of any kind, including hyperlinks to your Digital Twin, ERP and EAM platforms.

In addition to the custom metadata, other attributes are assigned for each tag:

Unique ID:
- When manually creating a tag, this attribute must be set by the user.
- When importing a list of tags from a CAD model, this attribute is set automatically.
- When using the Cintoo AI Engine, a default ID will be set automatically, which the user can edit later.

XYZ geolocation and bounding box:
- The XYZ geolocation corresponds to the center of the bounding box surrounding the tag.
- X, Y and Z are in meters in the same coordinate system as the scans.
- When manually creating a tag, these attributes are set when the user adjusts the bounding box around a tag.
- When importing a list of tags, these attributes usually come from the BIM/CAD model information.
- When using the Cintoo AI Engine, these attributes are set automatically.

Class (type of equipment):
- When manually creating a tag, this attribute must be set by the user.
- When importing a list of tags from a BIM/CAD model, this attribute usually comes from the BIM/CAD element properties.
- When using the Cintoo AI Engine, this attribute is set automatically among the list of classes that the user has selected before running the AI detection process

Tag Explorer

The Tag Explorer gives access to tag lists, individual tags and complex tags in Cintoo. It is accessible in the 3D View by clicking the Tag Explorer icon from the vertical tool bar on the left side of the screen.

Each tag has its properties (ID + metadata) listed and accessible.
There are several Visibility Actions possible (e.g. Hide, Isolate, Crop Inside/Outside, etc.) for each Tag.
Navigation Actions include the ability Go To, Look At, Set as Default View, and Focus in Scan Mode.
By default, the closest scan setup position to the Tag, which is automatically computed by Cintoo, is set as the Default View for that Tag. See Using Tags in Cintoo for more details.

Tags come in 2 different forms depending on the structure:

simple tags that consist of one element - could be obtained by manual tagging, importing a list of tags and AI tools
complex tags that consist of multiple elements (bounding boxes) - could be obtained from the model

Different tag icons are dedicated to distinguish between them