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 1-45 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 and Blink 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.

Scans of a project.

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.

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

2D image that was added in the HoloBuilder WebEditor with no assigned position.

Waypoint with a 360° image and an additional 2D image.

Location marker: These location markers are placeholders for images that should be added to the layer in the JobWalk app. See Capture Tab: 2D View for more information.

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 is either aligned or registered or was marked as georeferenced by the user.

For point clouds uploaded from SCENE or created with the Blink workflow, this icon means that the point cloud is at its original position, and no further alignment has been applied in Sphere XG.

Three-dots Menu

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

Set area scale: ts the scale of an area, see Set the Scale of an Area.

Align: Starts the alignment of one element to another, for example the aligning a point cloud to a 3D model. See section Align Point Clouds, 3D Models and Sheets for more information.

Georeferencing: If the point cloud has not been aligned or registered, this option allows you to treat the point cloud as being within the coordinate system of the 3D model. To undo the georeferencing, select this option again. For already georeferenced point clouds, the option label is  Reset to original position.

Download point cloud: Downloads the point cloud or the 3D model to your computer. If you want to export the point cloud in a specific format, see Export a Point Cloud or a Subset of a Point Cloud.

Generate floor plan (beta): Generates a floor plan from a point cloud. See Generate a Floor Plan from a Point Cloud (beta)for more information.

Move: Moves a data set, for example a point cloud or a mobile scan, from one area to another. This option is only available for Sphere XG data sets or Orbis data sets. You cannot move data sets that were uploaded from SCENE.

Move to different area: Moves a waypoint with a 2D image, a waypoint with a 360° image or a location marker to another area in the project. See Move Waypoints within an Area for more information.

Add 360° image: Adds a 360° image to the selected waypoint.

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

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