Leica Cyclone 9.0 – A Major Leap in Laser Scanning Project Efficiency

With Leica Cyclone 9.0, the industry leading point cloud solution for processing laser scan data, Leica Geosystems introduces major, patent-pending innovations for greater project efficiency. These advances benefit both field and office via significantly faster, easier scan registration, plus quicker deliverable creation thanks to better 2D and 3D drafting tools and steel modelling. Cyclone 9.0 allows users to scale easily for larger, more complex projects while ensuring high quality deliverables consistently.

Greatest advancement in office scan registration since cloud-to-cloud registration
When Leica Geosystems pioneered cloud-to-cloud registration, it enabled users - for the first time - to accurately execute laser scanning projects without having to physically place special targets around the scene, scan them, and model them in the office. With cloud-to-cloud registration software, users take advantage of overlaps among scans to register them together.

"The cloud-to-cloud registration approach has delivered significant logistical benefits onsite and time savings for many projects. We've constantly improved it, but the new Automatic Scan Alignment and Visual Registration capabilities in Cyclone 9.0 represent the biggest advancement in cloud-to-cloud registration since we introduced it," explained Dr. Chris Thewalt, VP Laser Scanning Software. "Cyclone 9.0 lets users benefit from targetless scanning more often by performing the critical scan registration step far more efficiently in the office for many projects. As users increase the size and scope of their scanning projects, Cyclone 9.0 pays even bigger dividends. Any user who registers laser scan data will find great value in these capabilities."

通过按下按钮，Cyclone 9.0自动处理扫描，如果有的话，数字图像可以创建最初相互对齐的重叠扫描组。扫描对齐完成后，将应用算法注册进行最终注册。这种新的工作流程选项也可以与目标注册方法一起使用。这些结合功能不仅使最具挑战性的注册场景可行，而且速度更快。即使是新手用户，他们也会欣赏他们的易用性和可扩展性，而不是小型项目。

Power用户Marta Wren，Plowman Craven Associates的技术专家（PCA-英国领先的特许调查公司）发现，单独使用Cyclone 9.0的视觉注册工具加速了对扫描的注册处理的速度，其速度比以前的方法快四倍。PCA使用激光扫描进行民用基础设施，商业物业，取证，娱乐和建筑信息建模（BIM）应用。

New intuitive 2D and 3D drafting from laser scans

For civil applications, new roadway alignment drafting tools let users import LandXML-based roadway alignments or use simple polylines imported or created in Cyclone. These tools allow users to easily create cross section templates using feature codes, as well as copy them to the next station and visually adjust them to fit roadway conditions at the new location. A new vertical exaggeration tool in Cyclone 9.0 allows users to clearly see subtle changes in elevation; linework created between cross sections along the roadway can be used as breaklines for surface meshing or for 2D maps and drawings in other applications.

为了2D起草法医场景，建筑物和BIM工作流程，一种新的快速切片工具简化了创建用于起草物品的2D草图平面的过程，例如构建足迹和部分，仅为一个步骤。用户只需要在建筑物的面上选择一两个点即可开始。该工具还可以通过视觉检查点云重叠来快速分析注册质量。

Also included in Cyclone 9.0 are powerful, automatic point extraction features, first introduced in Cyclone II TOPO and Leica CloudWorx. These include efficient SmartPicks for automatically finding bottom, top, and tie point locations and Points-on-a-Grid for automatically placing up to a thousand scan survey points on a grid for ground surfaces or building faces.

激光扫描数据的简化钢配件
For plant, civil, building and BIM applications, Cyclone 9.0 also introduces a patent-pending innovation for modelling steel from point cloud data more quickly and easily. Unlike time consuming methods that require either processing an entire available cloud to fit a steel shape or isolating a cloud section before fitting, this new tool lets users to quickly and accurately model specific steel elements directly within congested point clouds. Users only need to make two picks along a steel member to model it. Shapes include wide flange, channel, angle, tee, and rectangular tube shapes.

Faster path to deliverables
Leica Cyclone 9.0还为用户提供了有价值的新功能，以更快地创建可从激光扫描和高清测量™（HDS™）的民用，建筑，BIM，植物和法医场景文档创建可交付成果。

Availability
Leica Cyclone 9.0 is available today. Further information about the Leica Cyclone family of products can be found athttp://hds.www.secondwindkites.comand users may download new product versions online from this website or their myWorld account, or may order directly from an authorised Leica Geosystems representative. For more information please visit://www.secondwindkites.com/cyclone