Capture Tab: Icons and Elements in the Project Structure View

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The project structure view is available in the 2D View in the 3D view and in the walk mode view. You can collapse and expand the project structure view by clicking the triangle icons at the top left of the screen.

It contains all elements of your project in the tree view as well as the available actions in the three-dots menu. The elements in the tree view are displayed with icons that provide information of the content.

Figure 1-39 Project Structure View example

Sphere XG is subject to continuous development. Therefore, the information below may not be complete.

The header of the project structure view shows the project name and the Tag Management button.

Area: A project may have more than one area. An area contains layers and 360° images. A layer is a concept in Sphere XG describing the fact that you can overlay and align sheets, overview maps and uploaded floor plans. In the views setting toolbar, you can select which layer you want to see. A sheet is a 2D image that can be used to get an overview of an area. It is created by users, software or a CAD system. A sheet may include text, a legend and scale information. Typically, sheets are exported floor plans in .pdf, .png format or sometimes .jpg format. An overview map is a top view generated from a scan dataset uploaded to Sphere XG. This is automatically created when uploading scan data to Sphere XG via Stream or SCENE.

4D Sessions: Under this node, you find the scans and scan point clouds of a project. This can be scans which you have uploaded manually, for example .e57 and .cpe files as well as Stream and SCENE scans. On these scans, you can run registrations and synchronize them between Sphere XG and SCENE. See the SCENE user manual for more information.
Apart from the usual three dimensions, the time dimension is available via captures of the same location that were taken at different times. For example, this is helpful to watch the progress on a construction site. This time travel is also available as a dropdown list in the 2D view, the 3D view and the walk mode view if captures at different points of time are available.

Point cloud: A point cloud is a set of data points that represents an object in 3D form, from which dimensions can be extracted. For more information, see chapter Working with Projects and its subchapters.

Mobile scan: A scan captured by a mobile scanning device and optionally a mobile scanning app, for example the Orbis scanner and the Stream app.

Flash scan: For more information on Flash scans, see Flash Scans in the Orbis user manual.

360° image, i.e. static HoloBuilder captures, see Capture 360° photos and create tours with the JobWalk App.

VideoMode capture, see VideoMode - A short overview in the HoloBuilder Help Center.

The following additional icons may be displayed on top of one of the above-mentioned icons to provide more information:

The element requires additional action. For example, this icon is displayed on a point cloud icon () when the point cloud has not yet been aligned to the sheet. You can access the required information by clicking the three-dots icon to open the context menu.

For point clouds imported manually, for example .cpe or .e57 files, this icon means that the cloud was marked as georeferenced by the user. Generally speaking, a georeferenced (or survey-controlled) point cloud does not require further alignment.

For point clouds uploaded from SCENE, this icon means that the point cloud is at its original position, and no further alignment has been applied in Sphere XG. (Typically, users will georeference/survey-control these point clouds in SCENE before uploading them to Sphere XG).

Three-dots Menu

Depending on the element, the three-dots menu provides different options:

Set Scale: Sets the scale of a sheet or grid, see Set the Scale of a Sheet or Grid.

Align to Sheet: Aligns a point cloud to a sheet, see Align a Sheet to a Point Cloud.

Align to 3D Model: Aligns a point cloud or a sheet to a 3D model, see Align a Point Cloud and a 3D Model and Align a Sheet to a 3D Model.

For elements under the node: Treat as georeferenced. This option marks the point cloud as georeferenced. For elements under the node: Reset to original position, i.e. the position of the point cloud before an alignment or registration.

Download: Downloads the point cloud or the 3D model to your computer.

Edit: Allows editing the element name and in some cases also the time stamp. Note that this is not possible for all elements.

Move: Moves data from one area to another within the same project. Currently, you can move point clouds which were uploaded manually and Orbis captures.

Delete: Deletes the element. Note that you cannot undo the deletion once it is confirmed.