Cintoo Connect Release Notes

Release date: December 19th, 2024

• New features:
  • Added Connect CLI (Command Line Interface) provided by a new executable: cintooconnect-cli.exe.
• Improvements:
  • At import, a GUID is generated for each scan if not provided or invalid.
  • Improved processing time for import and export.
  • Memory consumption is optimised when exporting scans.
• Fixes:
  • Exported E57 was missing Panoramic image when it had unusual size.
  • Multiple alert windows were displayed when selecting an RCP file having multiple unstructured scans.
  • Error window is displayed disgracefully if one start Cintoo Connect GUI without a job uri.

Release date: October 22th, 2024

• Fixes:
  • Connect supports the new Job URI format.

Release date: September 5th, 2024

• New features:
  • "Import all 360° images" option for NavVis VLX.
  • "Import all 360° images" option for NavVis Ivion.
  • VVPs name indicate their position in scanning path file
  • Relabel "GeoSlam FARO Zeb Structured"
• Fixes:
  • Connect crashes when I import a huge point cloud.

Release date: July 19th, 2024

• New features:
  • Import e57 with embedded panoramic images from GeoSlam Zeb Structured.
  • Resume a mobile scan import session.
  • Resume a drone scan import session.
  • Import a .las file from Drone.
  • Import a .laz file from Drone.
  • Import a .las file from mobile scan.
  • Import a .laz file from mobile scan.
• Fixes:
  • Session restore dialog doesn't appear.
  • Application crashes when I import a huge point cloud file.
  • Handle big coordinates.

Release date: April 12th, 2024

• New features:
  • Choose the parallelisation for indoor mobile scan and drone import.
  • Import intensity data from mobile scans.
  • Create a dedicated tab for 360° images import.
  • Improve the layout of the import tabs.
  • Select the right import tab when launching Cintoo Connect.
  • Remove the “Upload enabled” checkbox.
• Fixes:
  • In some cases, intensity wasn't read correctly from E57 files.
  • "Credits" dialog window didn't appear.

Release date: December 19st, 2023

• New features:
  • Import Inspection Data.
  • Confirmation dialog when exiting during an export.
• Fixes:
  • In rare cases, E57 files could not be read (because of color handling).
  • When importing drone data, there was a small tilt between panoramic and RGB views.

Release date: December 04th, 2023

• New feature:
  • When exporting a scan as structured E57, the high resolution panoramic image, if present, is embedded as cubemap.
• Fix:
  • In rare cases, import was failing because of a missing temporary folder.

Release date: October 26th, 2023

• Fixes:
  • In rare cases, when importing drone data, the definition of the virtual vantage points was too low.
  • When exporting a crop, the progress bar was stuck.

Release date: October 6th, 2023

• Improvement:
  • Speed up import of drone data and indoor mobile scan (up to 10 times faster).
• Fixes:
  • In some cases, proxy was causing SSL errors.
  • NavVis Ivion and Leica BLK2GO imports did not support special characters in filename.
  • Drone data in spherical coordinates were not correctly handled.
  • It was not possible to deactivate face blurring for Viametris Backpack mobile scan.

Release date: July 12th, 2023

• Fix:
  • In some cases, proxy was not correctly detected.

Release date: July 5th, 2023

• New feature:
  • Option to blur faces in scan panoramic images and in 360° images.
• Improvements:
  • Improved support for E57 files exported from Trimble software.
  • Improved messages for some known error cases.

Release date: April 20th, 2023

• Improvements:
  • Import drone data:
    • Support E57 files containing multiple point clouds.
    • Improved virtual vantage points positioning.
    • Improved virtual vantage points creation.
    • Estimate import time magnitude.
• Fix:
  • 360° images import did not support special characters in folder name.

Release date: February 27th, 2023

• New feature:
  • Import drone data:
    • Supported point cloud file format: E57.
    • Distance between virtual vantage points from 10 to 100 meters.

Release date: December 22nd, 2022

• New feature:
  • Export scans and crops to Bentley POD.
• Improvements:
  • Improved import of panoramic images from Trimble scans.
  • Ensure compatibility with Autodesk Recap 2023 (upgrade to version 23.0.3 of Recap SDK).
  • Minor graphical improvements.
• Fixes:
  • When exporting in unstructured formats, decimation was wrong.
  • In rare cases, when exporting, points very close to scan position were removing portions of the point cloud.
  • In rare cases, import behind a proxy was not working.
  • In rare cases, import behind a proxy was slow.

Release date: November 9th, 2022

• New feature:
  • Import mobile scans from NavVis Ivion.
• Improvement:
  • Add ability to bypass proxy.
• Fix:
  • In rare cases, absence of proxy was wrongly detected.

Release date: August 31st, 2022

• Improvements:
  • Improved proxy detection.
  • Minor graphical improvements.
• Fixes:
  • When exporting, indoor mobile scans were wrongly colorised.
  • When exporting, in rare cases, FLS scans were wrongly colorised.

Release date: June 20th, 2022

• New features:
  • Import mobile scans from BLK2GO.
  • Import mobile scans from Emesent.
• Improvements:
  • Indoor mobile scan import: add selection of specific device vendor.
  • Indoor mobile scan import: in rare cases, the quality of scans positioned outside of the point cloud wasn't optimised.
  • Minor user interface improvements.

Release date: March 24th, 2022

• New feature:
  • Import indoor mobile scans with scanning path:
    • Supported point cloud file formats: E57 and NavVis PLY.
    • Supported scanning path file formats: Generic CSV, GeoSLAM TXT, NavVis CSV and Viametris XYZ.
    • Scanning path positions sub-sampling.
    • Optional scanning path geolocation NavVis XML file.
• Improvements:
  • Minor user interface improvements.

Release date: January 20th, 2022

• New features:
  • Embed panoramic image when exporting a scan in structured RCP, or in structured E57.
  • Filter out deleted points when importing scans that have lost their structures from RCP projects.
• Fixes:
  • Minor graphical fixes.

Release date: November 15th, 2021

• New features:
  • Import static scans that have lost their structures from RCP projects, and from E57 files.
  • Optionally use the filename as prefix for scans and images to import.
• Improvements:
  • Use the provided crop name for export.
  • Redesign the top part (files selection and options) of the import panel.
  • Small scans are no more selected form import by default.
  • Improve handling of rare errors when reading invalid E57 files.
• Fix:
  • Import button was wrongly enabled before the list of scans was read from all files.

Release date: September 1st, 2021

• Improvements:
  • Ensure compatibility with Autodesk Recap 2022 (upgrade to version 22.0.2 of Recap SDK).
  • Ensure compatibility with Faro Scene 2021 (upgrade to version 2.0.22 of Faro SDK).
• Fix:
  • In rare cases of corrupted RCP project, import was failing when filtering out deleted points.

Release date: June 23rd, 2021

• Improvement:
  • When filtering out deleted points of scans from Autodesk Recap projects, the input files are no more modified.
• Fixes:
  • In rare cases, import was failing because of slow network.
  • For some hybrid data hosting solutions, download of data for export was failing.

Release date: May 21st, 2021

• Improvement:
  • Improve speed of Autodesk Recap projects import when filtering out deleted points.
• Fix:
  • In some cases, Cintoo Connect was crashing when filtering out deleted points for Autodesk Recap projects.

Release date: May 4th, 2021

• New feature:
  • Filter out deleted points when importing scans from Autodesk Recap projects.
• Fix:
  • Allow to export structured scans to Autodesk Recap file format in special Windows folders.

Release date: March 31st, 2021

• Improvements:
  • Introduce the “heading” option to handle the rotation for 360° images import.
  • Improve surface discontinuities detection for point cloud transformation to mesh.
  • Release notes are now on-line and readable before upgrade.
• Fixes:
  • In some cases, export errors were not correctly reported.
  • In some cases, proxy configuration was not correctly read.

Release date: January 18th, 2021

• Fix:
  • Upgrade Autodesk Recap SDK to version 21.1.0: fix reading structured RCP files where scans were detected as unstructured.

Release date: December 14th, 2020

• New feature:
  • Import 360° georeferenced images which are displayed in Cintoo Viewer.
• Improvement:
  • Add third party credits in the help menu.
• Fixes:
  • In some cases, reading acquisition date was wrong for E57 scans.
  • Fix upload failed errors when resuming the import.
  • On rare cases, Cintoo Connect process was still active even after exit, continuing to upload scans.
  • Right clicking the list of scans caused a crash in some cases.

Release date: September 30th, 2020

• Improvement:
  • Export (scans or crop) is now 10% to 30% faster and consumes 20% to 40% less memory.
• Fix:
  • On rare cases, panoramic images of E57 files were generated with interleaved lines artifacts.

Release date: August 18th, 2020

• New feature:
  • Add the possibility to scale the scans before importing.

Release date: May 6th, 2020

• Fixes:
  • On particular Windows 10 configurations, Cintoo Connect was not launching with the error message “Failed to execute script connect”.
  • Some cases of crop export to RCS or RCP were failing.
  • For some crop exports to E57, intensity or colour was missing.
  • RCP scans with no intensity appeared all black in intensity display mode.

Release date: April 10th, 2020

• New features:
  • Export scans to structured RCP.
  • Export scans to unstructured, optionally decimated, E57.
• Improvement:
  • Improve speed (and consume less memory) for export (scans or crop).
• Fixes:
  • Fix “Failed to execute script connect” on rare cases when installing Cintoo Connect using the “Install only for me” mode.
  • On rare cases, using the “Install for all users” mode, Cintoo Connect did not launch when invoked from Cintoo Cloud.
  • On rare cases, export (scans or crop) failed due to empty data.

Release date: April 1st, 2020

• New feature:
  • Read cubic panoramic image (pinhole type) from E57 files, generated notably by Leica Cyclone or Register 360, usually from Leica RTC360 and BLK360 scanners.

Release date: March 23rd, 2020

• New feature:
  • Export crops to multi-scans E57 files.
• Improvements:
  • Support high resolution panoramic images for Cintoo Cloud.
  • Improve Cintoo Connect launching speed.
  • Allow to install Cintoo Connect without administrator rights (user only).
  • Reduce Cintoo Connect installer size.
• Fixes:
  • Scan name for export of a single scan to an E57 file.
  • Scrolling of list of scans to export.
  • Intensity precision during conversion.

Release date: February 12th, 2020

• Fixes:
  • Cintoo Connect 1.6.3 crashes randomly for high number of scans to process in parallel.
  • Fix email messages to support.

Release date: February 05th, 2020

• Improvements:
  • Improve robustness of the upload stage when importing scans.
  • Ability to send a copy of messages to support.
  • Blink Cintoo Connect icon when export is complete.
  • Improve summary information at the end of import process.
  • Graphical improvements, notably on dialog windows.
• Fix:
  • Do not allow invalid path when exporting scans.

Release date: January 14th, 2020

• Improvements:
  • Choose filename when exporting scans or crop.
  • Inline release notes.
• Fixes:
  • Missing colour for FLS scans with intensity.
  • Special characters in scan name or in filename when exporting a scan.
  • Special characters in filename when importing a FLS scan.

Release date: December 18th, 2019

• Fix:
  • DLL dependency issue with latest Faro Scene version.

Release date: December 16th, 2019

• New feature:
  • Export scan's intensity.
• Fixes:
  • Upgrade Faro Scene SDK to version 2.0.21.3199.
  • Upgrade Autodesk Recap SDK to version 20.1.1.

Release date: November 7th, 2019

• Fix:
  • Windows terminal popping up when importing a scan.

Release date: October 24th, 2019

• Fix:
  • Panoramic images for E57 generated by Leica.

Release date: September 17th, 2019

• New feature:
  • Support FLS files generated by latest Faro Scene.
• Fix:
  • Avoid crash on invalid FLS file.

Release date: September 03rd, 2019

• Fix:
  • Broken panoramic image for FLS files with intensity.

Release date: August 26th, 2019

• Fix:
  • Incompatibility with the newest version of Faro Scene.

Release date: August 23rd, 2019

• Fixes:
  • Missing Visual C++ Redistributable 2012/2013 if not yet present on computer.
  • Upload crash in some cases with proxy.

Release date: August 21st, 2019

• New features:
  • Import window:
    • Status bar to track the status of import file process.
    • Retry button if a scan has failed to upload.
• Fix:
  • Add Windows proxy settings to get external DNS from the intranet.

Release date: August 08th, 2019

• New features:
  • Import FLS files.
  • Import LSProj files.

Release date: April 30th, 2019

• Fixes:
  • Crop export to RCP failed when one of the scan contains no points.
  • Export to RCP and E57 failed when two scans have the same name.
  • The camera was not correctly initialised in RCP.

Release date: March 29th, 2019

• New features:
  • Export in RCP for crop selection, and for set of scans.
  • Optional decimation for export in RCS and RCP.
• Fix:
  • The Import UI is now deactivated once the ‘Import' button is clicked.

Release date: March 11th, 2019

• User interface improvements:
  • In Import window:
    • Display scans resolutions.
    • For E57 files, display all unstructured scans.
    • Display explanations about unstructured scans.
• Technical improvement:
  • Reduce size for Cintoo Connect application.

Release date: February 20th, 2019

• New feature:
  • In Import window, configure the number of scans to process in parallel.
• Fix:
  • Clean cache as soon as a scan is uploaded.

Release date: January 8th, 2019

• Processing improvements:
  • For point cloud transformation to mesh:
    • Improve surface discontinuities detection.
    • Improve filtering of incoherent points.

Release date: November 25th, 2018

• User interface improvements:
  • Display error statuses in main window.
  • Warning message with recommendations if memory seems to low to launch the scans import.
  • Warning message about plan capacity.

Release date: November 07th, 2018

• New feature:
  • Export in unified RCS.

Release date: October 24th, 2018

• Features:
  • E57 import.
  • RCP import.
  • E57 export.