TopoDOT Solutions Library

Purpose Setting up user preferences can be an arduous process on one machine (let alone dozens!), however once finalized for one we’d like to carry over all of these settings to another work station for someone else to enjoy. In this document we’ll cover how to move both the MicroStation […]

Scott Osterhoudt is LiDAR department manager at ESP Associates, Inc in Charlotte, NC. He’d been at ESP for less than a year when he was asked to take $700,000-worth of mobile scanning equipment out on a small boat and survey a road bridge which was to be converted to a […]

Is the Requirement for Point Cloud Classification Dead? Mobile LiDAR system (MLS) point cloud delivery requirements often call for the initial “classification” of the point cloud data; typically identified as Ground, Low Vegetation, Medium Vegetation and High Vegetation. In recent years, especially in the North American market, such classification requirements […]

The Right Way to Evaluate Point-Cloud Processing Software The first step in organising any software evaluation is not to focus on the software simply as an application. Instead, software should be seen as part of your overall process! So it’s that process you should evaluate. Then, in the final analysis, […]

Purpose The tools in TopoDOT 64bit (used in MicroStation CONNECT) are by default organized differently than TopoDOT 32bit (used in MicroStation V8i). TopoDOT 64bit tools are located in both the Taskbar and the Ribbon (top of interface) for MicroStation CONNECT, while the TopoDOT 32bit tools are primarily located in the […]

The TopoDOT team is presenting on the recent update to the Break-line Extraction Tool. The new feature will allow you to Auto Fit templates within the tool. This presentation will give you an in-depth look at how this new update works and where can it be applied successfully.