Leica Hexagon HxMap 4.1.0 with Tutorials

Create additional products during ingest
This version extends functionality of the ingest workflow step, allowing to queue up product generation jobs to be executed directly after ingesting completes. HxMap will allow the user to pick from any of the defined product templates if they are supported to be run in addition to ingest for the selected sensor types.


New ingest dialog window


Selection of additional products to generate

Adjust job settings when submitting to HTCondor
When processing HxMap data, most tasks support to be executed on a processing cluster. So far all jobs where submitted in order, leaving it to the user to manage the jobs within the processing queue manually. A new submission dialog window allows now to adjust the processing priority of a job already from within the workflow manager. This is then considered by HTCondor when the next job is selected for processing. Additionally, it is also possible to specify a processing category which can then be used to limit the number of nodes certain processing tasks consume.


Customization of default layer styles
By default HxMap will use a set of pre-configured styles for each of the layers within the different perspectives. A new section in the HxMap application settings will now allow the user to change these styles to their personal preference.


In addition to changing the default styles, it is also possible to change the style for each loaded layer. Such individual changes can now also be stored within the workspace file.

Dynamic layer styles for ground point layer in AT
Thanks to the changes in the layer styling, it is now also possible to adjust how each of the ground point layer is visualized. Additionally, HxMap will dynamically update the icons used to show the user if a point has been measured already or if it has been deactivated within the points list.
3D building vertice editing
To refine building objects generated with HxMap a new vertice editing capabilities have been added to the 3D editor perspective. With this release it is now possible to select vertices and either delete them or use their height information as reference for adjustment of other building parts.
Copying of buildings
The 3D Editor now allows to copy buildings to the position of a selected anchor point. Doing so will carry over all attributes except for the GUID which is generated for the new object.
Moving of buildings and building parts
Complete buildings or selected vertices can now be moved in all directions.
Performance improvements
We continuously aim to improve the performance of HxMap by either reducing processing times or lowering the memory required for processing.
This release includes major improvements to the following areas:
- reduced memory consumption for block processing step in APM
- reduced memory consumption and improved processing time for HSPC ingest and noise filtering step
Other
- Without an AOI, HxMap will now consider the selection of images when generating an Infocloud product
- Added support for Australia’s GDA2020 datum