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Manufacturer/Distributor: Leica Geosystems 
Product: Leica Cyclone II TOPO 
Price (list by modules or components)   [2] 
Laser scanner brands and models from which data can be imported directly   All [3] 
Operating systems supported (if one is preferred, please state)   Win XP 32 and 64 , Vista 32 and 64 
Minimum CPU requirement   Pentium 4 2GHz 
Minimum RAM required   Pentium 4 2GHz 
Space required on hard disk to properly run application, including swap space, etc. (list in Mb)   45 mb 
Other hardware requirements   OpenGL Graphics 
Cloud Editing/Analysis    
Can features be defined with user-created code libraries?   Yes 
Feature codes exportable to CAD software? (specify which software )   Yes 
Can user compare cloud or shapes fitted to clouds to plan or perform theoretical shape and interference checking? (State which, all or none.)   No 
Ability to make measurements such as distances, angles, areas, volumes, of lines, planes, shapes and other surfaces from cloud? (State which, all or none.)   Yes, linear only 
Can user overlay or drape a photograph from an external source (e.g., digital camera) on cloud or elements extracted from cloud?   No 
Ability to register scans without the use of targets?   No 
Ability to place several clouds from different scans in coordinated 3D space using total station or GPS survey data that has been used to determine positions of scanner and alignment of scans?   No 
Analyze points in a cloud representing shapes such as planes, cylinders and spheres to detect measurement outliers?   No 
Ability to integrate scans with floor plans, engineering drawings of objects and surveyed information? (State which, all or none.)   No 
Automate decimation of points in selectable areas to make data files as compact as possible?   No 
Is fitting of lines, planes and shapes to cloud done manually or automatically, or both?   No 
- For automatic and manual fitting, what techniques are used or available (e.g. least squares, taking average, etc.)?   No 
Ability to automatically track lines or limits of areas by color or texture discrimination?   No 
Ability to automatically calculate and list alignment of center line of shapes (such as a pipe) containing straight and curved segments such as elbows?   No 
Maximum number of points that can be loaded   N/A [13] 
Automatic removal of noise (e.g., cars on road, vegetation, etc.)?   No 
Rendering/CAD Model Generation/Viewing    
Does software automatically or manually generate or create CAD models or model segments from point clouds and other known information? (Specify level of automation and intelligence.)   No 
Are items (CAD models such as pipes, steel, flanges, elbow) fit to the point cloud using standard object tables/catalogs?   No 
Create statistical quality assurance reports on the modeled objects?   No 
Automatically compute, without user interaction, a full 3D polygonal mesh (not view-based) from a point cloud?   No 
Perform contour generation?   No 
Perform volume calculation capabilities?   No 
Perform solid modeling (volume generation) based on user-defined lines, planes and other surfaces as bounds?   No 
Perform profile and cross-section generation along any cutting plane, family of planes or road alignment?   Yes, via feature coding 
Have edge detection technology to determine boundaries of solids, planes and other shapes?   Yes, edges, planes, low, high, painted and flow line 
Perform automatic extraction of standard shapes from cloud (e.g. pipe fittings, structural steel members, etc.)?   No 
Can user view cloud or generated shapes or models from any viewpoint in 3D?   Yes 
Are fly-throughs or walk-throughs supported?   Yes 
Have intelligent display of detail depending on scale of the view?   Yes 
Can user select transparent/opaque surface for cloud and CAD shapes?   No 
Which export formats are supported?   LandXML, Leica DBX, Custom ASCII 
Specify other measurement tools (e.g., clearance, cut/fill, table of elevation differences)   None 
Can the pointcloud be rendered with visualization effects (e.g., intensity mapping, elevation mapping, shading, silhouette)?   Yes 
Can the software automatically detect scan targets?   N/A 
Miscellaneous    
Provide high-speed thumbnail views of scans, clouds, photographic images and generated shapes?   No 
Can client/server system support multiple users?   No 
Is client/server system supported to enable several clients contributing to a single project?   No 
Other Features    
Describe   Cyclone II TOPO is an easy to learn and use application for CAD techs to feature code topographic maps from 3D point cloud data 
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