Point Cloud Cleanup using Leica Cyclone Software

You can perform Point Cloud Cleanup within Leica Cyclone software and export that information out as a structured .e57 point cloud to be uploaded into Cintoo via Cintoo Connect. (This content provided by NOAR Technologies, a valued Cintoo Partner and Leica Registered Partner.)

• Open Registered ModelSpace
  
  
  
  
• Double Check that Scans aren’t Unified/Merged
  • Click on point cloud to select cloud.
  • If entire cloud lights up, and ‘one cloud’ is listed in bottom left, point cloud is unified and cannot be cleaned for Cintoo.
    
    
• Open the Layer Manager, and create Noise, Working, and Complete layers
  • Shift + L opens manager
    
    
    
    
• Select a single point cloud, and assign to Working layer
  
  
  
  
• Disable the visibility on Default, Noise, and Complete working layers
  • This should leave one scan visible in the ModelSpace
    
    
    
    
• Segment the cloud to remove noise
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Select Noise and assign to Noise Layer
  
  
  
  
• Select all segments of the scan and run the Merge command
  • Create Object -> Merge
  • This will combine all parts back into one contiguous cloud
    
    
    
    
• Select the point cloud and assign to the Completed layer
  • This will turn the visibility of the cleaned cloud off
    
    
• Turn on the Default layer visibility and repeat steps 4-9 for each individual scan
  
  
  
  

!NOTE: Scan segments MUST be merged with their original scan before being placed on the complete layer. Run this process one scan at a time, and Merge after the noise has been removed. Orphaned scan segments will show up in Cintoo as unusable separate clouds with small clips of data.