Edit Point Cloud Elevations in TBC

[@kehaunanzi]

Great Job Robert!! Awesome work

[@MinionRocks]

Try this - I too had issues changing elevation on a "scan station" point cloud, shot with an SX10 in Access, not locked into a coordinate system. In TBC, go to PROJECT EXPLORER. Go to SCANS. If you have more than one scan per station, just select the station without expanding the individual scans. For me it was called "900 (Q1)". 900 was the point number of the station. "Q" means it's a scan station, not locked into anything. If you do a station-setup or resection first, your scan will start with an "S", not a "Q". Selecting the scan station here, in Project Explorer, and THEN hitting the 'Change Elevation' button, with the Delta elevation option, finally worked for me.😃

[@MeganBraddon]

I recently did a boundary markout and took some scans for checks, as elevations were not needed I didn't station elevate so all my scan station instrument heights automatically set to 0m, their position was great as expected but their levels all assumed the stations were at 0m. Turns out this is an easy fix. I compared the levels at common points and got the difference. Then clicked the station I wanted to raise/lower based on my first station staying at 0m. In the Properties panel you can adjust the Raw instrument height. This changes the instrument height and the pointcloud associated to the station. Hay presto my pointclouds sit at the correct elevation relevant to my first scan station.

[@SurveyingWithRobert]

That’s awesome! Thanks for the tip!

[@dmytrokravets2264]

Also spent lots if time looking for this function. While it’s literally called “change elevation” :)

[@marcoramirez785]

Awesome! Thanks Robert

[@kehaunanzi]

Love the Cowboy hats too!!! :)

[@air0046]

Hello Robert! Greetings from Sweden. Just wanted to check in on you, its been a while since you uploaded any content. Hope everything is all right and that you are well. Love your videos, great work!

[@andrewomland583]

Great tip.

[@gagepate4588]

Thank you for the info, but when I try that, nothing moves at all. I’m doing the exact same steps you are but point cloud elevation is staying exactly the same.

[@SurveyingWithRobert]

What version do you have?

[@gagepate4588]

@@SurveyingWithRobert the most up to date one

[@SurveyingWithRobert]

@@gagepate4588 I will try it again this weekend and see if something has changed.

[@gagepate4588]

@@SurveyingWithRobert thank you sir. It’s version 5.60 btw.

[@drewluders9339]

I have the same issue, TBC version 5.2. I cannot move or change elevations on point clouds or surfaces.

[@MarkusWilhelm-ly4tb]

I think they broke this in the latest updates. I think this worked maybe 2 version ago. I noticed a few things that I used to do all the time don't work in the latest version.

[@SurveyingWithRobert]

Make sure you window the whole point cloud. If you just select, it doesn’t work.

[@shanecodman1842]

Good info thank u. Flat earth crew