The first of ReCap's Data Services; Point Cleanup eliminates the pain of rigorously finding and removing unwanted artifacts inadvertently captured while in the field. This is great for identifying objects such as people or cars who are constantly moving through a static environment.
Once initiated, a brief settings dialog provides the ability to adjust the precision of the tool, affecting the eventual results.
By default the Point Cleanup tool is able to identify a base-line set of points that are "bad" within a project with relative ease. However, the nature of the data means that, in some instances, points that would be obviously bad to the human eye can be missed. This can occur even when those missed points are located directly next to other identified "bad" points.
Precision is designed to mitigate this issue and return a better overall result. By using the easily identified "bad" points as a guideline the tool expands its selection to include additional points within a certain radius of any given "bad" point. Lower precision selects a larger region around the "bad" points resulting in more points being selected, while higher precision selects a smaller region resulting in fewer.
Once the process is completed the identified points are automatically assigned to a new scan region for review. Additional editing can also be done so that any outlying issues can be corrected in the selection.
These points can be deleted from the project through the Scan Region's contextual tools.
