InnovMetric PolyWorks Metrology Suite

InnovMetric PolyWorks Metrology Suite Overview

PolyWorks (PW) is a multifunctional software produced by InnovMetricSoftwareInc., used for processing laser scanning data: reverse engineering, control of geometric parameters of products, architectural tasks, monitoring of deformations of the earth’s surface and many others. The PolyWorks software package allows you to effectively and quickly work with very large volumes of data. PolyWorks consists of several modules and has a wide range of tools that simplify and speed up work with data. It is important to note that the complex allows you to work with data obtained from three-dimensional scanners of all known brands.

InnovMetric PolyWorks Metrology Suite Features

IMAlign

• This module is designed for primary data processing.
• Initially, data obtained using a terrestrial 3D scanner or data already processed in other programs is imported. Already at this stage, there are some processing options: data is imported with a given accuracy (the point sampling step is set); data can be filtered by distance.
• Primary processing of point clouds is performed: scaling of point clouds; filtering for matching points, that is, ordering (points diverging by distances less than the specified one are deleted). The module performs binding to an external coordinate system and stitching of scans.
• The program allows you to select a stitching method, which can be divided into: visual stitching methods; by reference objects. And what is no less important: the program produces statistics and histograms of merge errors, primary polygonal models are created.
• Data can be exported in many formats (AC, BRE, PIF, PTX, SURF) and as polygonal models in DXF, IGES.

IMMerge

• Designed to create a triangulation model, the module allows you to manually define the parameters responsible for the quality and accuracy of the created model.

IMEdit

• The module is designed to work with TIN surfaces created in PW or imported from other programs.
• The module contains functions for smoothing, filling “holes”, retriangulation (individual areas can be triangulated again with less accuracy), various mechanisms for creating curves and tools for editing them.
• This module implements functions for creating and editing NURBS surfaces – surfaces that are created by curves, and the module provides many ways to create these curves: manually – certain curves are drawn along specified points, curves are constructed by intersections with the model of planes, by sections, a grid of curves is automatically created by the model with a given accuracy (step and maximum distance at which they are from the model).

IMInspect

Includes tools that allow you to:

• fit geometric primitives (circle, cone, cylinder, plane, point, polyline, sphere and vector) into a point cloud;
• construct polygonal surfaces;
• combine data and reference objects into a single and unique coordinate system;
• profile, create arbitrary and specified sections;
• perform detailed comparison, statistics and reports within or between data, reference objects and primitives;
• all types of measurements, control of the position and condition of complex structures (measurement of geometric dimensions, both linear and angular, areas, volumes);
• export data and reference objects to many formats.

IMCompress

• Reduction of mainly colored polygonal 3D models. An auxiliary module that allows you to reduce the weight of a model by reducing the number of elements (triangules or patches) that make it up.

IMTexture

• The module allows you to combine a model and its texture map, i.e. get a model with textures that display not only the geometric but also the physical properties of the model. The texture map must be obtained from a scanner, i.e. the data obtained from the scanner must contain information about the intensity in addition to coordinates. Two types of data are combined, as a result the model has a look that is closest to reality.

IMView

• Data viewing module.
• Models created in the program are saved in an internal format and can be viewed in a freely supplied module. The PolyWorks software product is designed for a specific range of tasks that cannot be solved in other software products.
• This range of tasks covers many aspects. For example: Monitoring earth surface deformations, landslide processes and soil subsidence under the influence of man-made factors. By superimposing models created at different points in time, it is possible to obtain the magnitude and direction of displacements. And the data on these displacements will not be characterized by individual control points.
• Since continuous shooting is performed during scanning, the necessary information can be obtained at virtually any point on the surface. The obtained data are presented in the form of a colored three-dimensional model with color distribution depending on the magnitude of deformations.
• A simple click of the mouse at any point of this model displays the magnitude and direction of deformation, as well as the coordinates of this point in different observation cycles. Then, the distribution diagrams of these values ​​are constructed, which can be transformed into various graphs, diagrams and histograms in MS Excel format.
• A three-dimensional model of the earth’s surface allows solving a number of problems, from calculating the volumes of blast blocks in open pit mines to a standard topographic plan and materials for land management documentation.
• In this case, the PolyWorks software tools can also be used to automatically solve the following problems:
  Surface analysis (magnitude and direction of deformation). Surface analysis — sections (they can be performed in various directions: perpendicular to the side and in horizontal planes: in the first case, this is one of the main parameters for assessing the quality of the blast and the location of the ore, in the other, we obtain a topographic plan of the quarry).
• Plotting isolines of the collapse surface. Evaluation of collapse and exploded volume (collapse assessment according to these models can be performed as follows: collapse is divided into calculation blocks (for example 3×3 m) and the volume of each such block is estimated; these calculations are performed from the calculation plane at a given elevation) Many other tasks. Tasks of industrial enterprises related to the measurement of inaccessible and complex objects, the construction of three-dimensional models of objects and the preparation of materials for use in automatic design systems and enterprise management systems. Monitoring the condition of buildings and structures, in particular, observations of deformations.
• By superimposing models created at different points in time, it is possible to obtain the magnitude and direction of displacements at any point in the structure. It is possible to superimpose the current model on a certain “reference” model, the role of which can be played by the design. In this case, we will have deviations from the “ideal” parameters. An example of such deformation is the deflection of a hipped roof.
• Deformation monitoring is carried out both for the building as a whole and for individual structural elements, including inaccessible ones.

File Information

Year/Release Date : 2024
Version : 2024 IR3.2 Win64
Developer : InnovMetric Software Inc.
Developer’s website : www.innovmetric.com/
Bit depth : 64-bit
Interface language : Multilingual
Tablet : Present

System Requirements

Windows 64-bit