Georg Schroth, CTO and Co-Founder of NavVis, explains how the new tool streamlines workflows, enhances data integrity and eliminates third-party tools.
We’re pleased to announce NavVis IVION Release 11.5.0, bringing powerful new data cleaning capabilities at no extra cost. Point Cloud Cleanup has been seamlessly integrated within NavVis IVION, the market-leading spatial data platform for digital twin creation, collaboration and integration. With the new tool, users can more efficiently remove noise and unwanted data from point clouds directly within NavVis IVION. This eliminates the hassle and cost of third-party tools, significantly streamlining reality capture workflows, and ensuring continuity with panoramic images for improved data integrity.
Integrating Point Cloud Cleanup advances our product goal: to provide not just a digital replica of the physical world, but also built-in tools to understand and effectively plan using that digital representation, ultimately enabling downstream use cases like design and modeling with scan data.
Discover the Point Cloud Cleanup Tool in NavVis IVION
Manual cleaning augments automatic dynamic object filtering
Raw laser scan data, while highly detailed, frequently contains noise and imperfections such as reflections, moving machinery and extraneous elements such as foliage. Without cleaning, these imperfections can lead to misrepresentations and compromise data quality and accuracy.
Until now, laser scanning professionals have relied on NavVis IVION’s dynamic object filtering to automatically clean point clouds but, advanced requirements often required exporting the reality capture data to third-party tools. Point Cloud Cleanup eliminates this extra step, giving users the option to manually edit and clean while keeping data within NavVis IVION. This efficient workflow saves time and effort while preserving data integrity by ensuring continuity with panoramic images.
Key benefits
- Manual selection and removal: Inspect point clouds visually and remove unwanted objects, reflections and noise.
- Streamlined workflow: No more exporting or re-importing the point cloud—the data stays within NavVis IVION from end to end.
- Continuity with panoramas: Point clouds stay linked with panoramic imagery, enhancing contextual accuracy.
- Advanced precision and accuracy: Clean with polygon selection and cropping boxes, while switching seamlessly between perspective and orthographic views.
- Lower costs: Stop paying for unneeded third-party software licenses.
- Restorable edits: NavVis IVION does not delete points but hides them so users can restore data as needed.
- Enhanced ease of use: NavVis offers the most integrated and intuitive reality capture workflow available today.
How to access Point Cloud Cleanup in the site setup of NavVis IVION
Perspective, orthographic or crop view – select the desired view for cleaning your point cloud
Add, remove, invert or cancel your selection—users can choose from various cleanup tools
Frictionless, end-to-end workflow for scanning, processing, cleaning and viewing
The introduction of Point Cloud Cleanup underscores our commitment to making our solutions as easy to use as possible, giving customers a frictionless, end-to-end reality capture workflow for scanning, processing, cleaning and viewing. We anticipate widespread usage of the tool by our existing and new customers, all of whom depend on accurate and high-quality point cloud data.
For example: laser scanning professionals when providing high-quality scanning data to their customers; professionals in architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) when generating detailed designs and building models; and enterprises to provide benefits for facility management and other operational purposes.
Customers will receive Point Cloud Cleanup automatically as part of their cloud-based NavVis IVION subscription, ensuring immediate access with no action required. It is available immediately in all NavVis IVION tiers — Core, Pro and Enterprise — at no additional cost. NavVis is committed to continuously enhancing NavVis IVION with powerful features—no hidden costs or complications—because adding value to our customers is our top priority.
Log into NavVis IVION now to try it out or arrange a demo with one of our experts today.