• Scantra 3.4.1 - April 2025
• Scantra 3.3.1 - March 2024
• Scantra 3.2.1 - June 2023
• Scantra 3.1.1 - November 2022
• Scantra 3.0.1 - September 2021
• Scantra 2.5.5 - November 2020
• Scantra 2.4.4 - February 2020
• Scantra 2.3.3 - May 2019
• Scantra 2.3.0 - July 2018
• Scantra 2.2.1 - January 2018
• Scantra 2.1.1 - October 2016
• Scantra 2.0.0 - July 2015
• Scantra 1.4.4 - June 2015
• Scantra 1.3.3 - February 2015
• Scantra 1.2.3 - February 2014
• Scantra 1.1.3 - January 2013
• Scantra 1.1.1 - June 2012

Release Notes

GENERAL DEVELOPMENTS
NEW FEATURES

• Real-time interface to OpenScanTools
• New licencing options
• Hiding planes or plane identities in bitmaps or the Matchmaker
• Project orientation
• New tinting option for users with colour vision deficiency
• New blunder detection
• Creating relations between groups only
• Options: Setting the mouse wheel zooming speed

IMPROVEMENTS

• Optimized performance of various dialogs and operations
• Options: New options for archiving projects
• ‘Delete parameters’ added to Inspector and Blunder Detection browser
• Symmetry point determination for checkerboard targets detection revised
• 3D graphics: Readability of station names

BUGFIXES

• Graphics window: Changing amount of entries of the legend
• Graphics window: Missing update for unconnected scans
• Missing plausibility check
• Graphics window: Background image is missing after switching from 2D to 3D
• Matchmaker: Manual pre-orientation or plane matching lead to no results
• Multi-threading: avoiding dead-locks
• Import / Export: False message “reduction active”
• Import / Export: Intensity images from Z+F scanner too bright
• Network analysis: GUI no longer responds after increasing the number of classes
• Project tree: Access violation after shifting scans to different groups
• Deleting connections from legend: Non-active connections are deleted
• Reactivation of a point identity: Graphic is not updated from the browser
• Mouse wheel lost focus when reference stations were changed
• Missing “Zoom all” after importing stations

SCANTRA STATIC
NEW FEATURES

• Processing of detail scans
• Updating transformations of embedded panoramic images in E57 files
• Import / Export: Processing of several Faro projects in one SCANTRA project
• Import / Export: Z+F interface StationID T4x4

IMPROVEMENTS

• Import / Export: Update flag is transferred to Riegl RiScanPro

BUGFIXES

• Import / Export: Faro Core import issues
• Import / Export: Import of vertical axes from Faro Scene projects
• Import / Export: Faro project import falsely created registration objects
• Import / Export: Update of Riegl *.rsp files

SCANTRA KINEMATIC
NEW FEATURES

• Introducing vertical readings as observations
  Separating trajectories based on travelled distance

IMPROVEMENTS

• Origins of semi static scans are shifted to the spatial centre

SCANTRA POLAR
NEW FEATURES

• Importing polar observations
  Altering station or target heights, station and target IDs and prism constants
  
   

Release notes

SCANTRA CORE

New Features

• Import / Export: Riegl RDBLib
• Settings: Consideration of mapping reductions
• Status of detection is now shown in the graphics window
• Graphics legend: A priori legend has been added

Improvements

• Browser: Point coordinates - link to global coordinate system added
• Settings & project tree: Extended settings for global coordinate systems
• Import / Export: Exporting colours
• Import / Export: Faro API
• Import / Export: PointCab interface
• Matchmaker: Visualisation of a point identity's status

Bugfixes

• Import / Export: Error messages when deploying the Faro API
• Graphics: Sectional view invisible in case of superior coordinates
• Matchmaker: Key actions were not considered
• Invalid path dialogue: Sorting leads to false file associations
• Datum-dependent matching: Faulty plausibility check

SCANTRA KINEMATIC

New Features

• Import of kinematic point clouds with trajectory
• Decomposition of kinematic point clouds
• Cross-linking static and pseudo-static scans

Release Notes

New Features

• Generate adjacencies: Auto Connect       
• Detection: Checkerboards            
• Pairwise registration: “Cloud2cloud”       
• Import / Export: Faro API             
• TagLabs: Importing Scantra databases into ScanSap          
• Graphics: Selection from the legend        
• Vertical tool bar: Hide observations icon

Improvements

• Bitmap / Matchmaker: Global points receive new symbol              
• Core: Accelerated plane matching            
• Core: Improved multi-threading
• Core: Transactions Thread            
• Graphic: Focus at superior control points              
• Graphic: Improved colouring in sectional views  
• Graphic: Open single sectional view         
• Graphic: Updating sectional views            
• Import/Export: LupoScan             
• Import/Export: PointCab Origins 4.1       
• Magnifier: Contrast enhancement            
• Settings: Default single point accuracies < 1 mm 

Bugfixes

• Bitmap/Matchmaker: Failed digitisation in detail scans   
• Bitmap/Matchmaker: False error message when digitising points
• Bitmap/Matchmaker: Magnifier opened at wrong positions          
• Block adjustment: Access violation when sorting in the blunder detection window             
• Block adjustment: Default setting for vertical axes disabled           
• Block adjustment: Minimum configuration with two control points plus inclinometer readings
• Data browsers: Creating, renaming and deleting a reference frames          
• Data browsers: Use of the #-operator in the filter function            
• Detection: Double detection after double click    
• Graphics: “Jumping” stations after shifting            
• Graphics: Trying to access moved or deleted databases  
• Graphics: Updating the graphics window after deleting entities   
• Import / Export: Exports /Updates registration parameters           
• Import / Export: LupoScan point import 
• Matchmaker: Empty magnifier   
• Matchmaker: Selection in graphics window was not considered. 

Release Notes

New Features

• Graphics: 3D-viewer
• Graphics: Frame and annotations for groups
• Graphics: Use of virtual stations
• Network analysis: Histogram of results
• GUI: Automatically creating backups
• Graphics: Arrangement of stations in the neighbourhood graph
• Import/export: Import of vertical axes for e.g. Leica p-series
• Graphics: Show image at mouseover event

Improvements

• Core: "De-germanised" plausibility control
• Core: Increased memory of the block adjustment for huge projects
• Core: Read files only once when spheres or planes are detected
• Data browsers: Display only active elements in data browsers
• Data browsers: Reference frame dialogue
• Graphics / report: Displaying residuals for individual coordinate components
• Graphics: show Horizontal section based on pre-orientations
• Graphics: Translucent display of selection relations and stations
• Import / export: Export colour from z+f scanners
• Import/export: Updated PointCab origins 4 interface
• Project tree: Selected sphere diameters for groups
• Sectional view: Show station-id at mouseover-event in the sectional view

Bugfixes

• Core: Block adjustment with a reference frame
• Core: Operations with "bulk"-E57 files
• Core: Problems of the magnifier
• Data browsers: "Focus on object" entry "lost"
• Data browsers: Udating or deleting entities were not updated
• Graphics: Missing update of the graphics window
• GUI: Missing update when changing between reference station and frame
• Gui: "Lost" icons on ultrawide screens
• Gui: Reference frame was transferred from one project to another
• Gui: Wrong language settings in the station browser and the inconsistent file path dialogue
• Import/export: Option "measuring range" adjustable
• Import/export: PointCab interface - update standard views
• Import/export: Point import dialogue
• Matchmaker: Link stations manually failed
• Matchmaker: Manual matching was not possible
• Network analysis: Error message "is not a floating-point value"
• Project tree: Drag & drop
• Project tree, matchmaker & graphics: Wrong language setting

Release Notes

New Features

• Updated Interface
• Multi-Threading
• Support of PointCab Origins
• Separation of geometry and input and output information
• Sphere detection
• Point matching
• Selection logic
• Filter function in the data browsers

Improvements

• Improved speed of project operations
• Matchmaker
• Definition of reference stations and global point identities
• Customisable arrow colours
• Alternative ini-Parser
• Pathfinder
• Selection of relations
• PTX Import and update

Bugfixes

• Invalid floating-point operation
• Duplicates of station relations

Release notes

New features

• Corner matching
• Matchmaker
• PointCab interface
• Improved speed of plane calculation and pixel interpolation
• Collecting new plane identities during plane matching
• Weighting of individual coordinate components for ground control points
• Histogram equalization

Improvements

• Block adjustment based on selected stations
• Option Method of sampling
• Advanced Voxel Export
• Consideration of not directly substituted point identities
• Change invalid scan file paths dialogue

Bugfixes

• Handling corrupt or inconsistent E57 files
• Black tinted relations in the adjacency graphs
• Showing intersecting planes without detected planes
• Incomplete reference station import
• Local coordinates were missing in the inspector              
• Missing entry in the inspector

Release notes

New functions

• Network Analyser
• Generation of Adjacencies using Delaunay triangulation
• The Hatchet - blunder detection
• Displaying the sectional view in the graphics window
• Operating Convenience
  • Filtering and Deactivation of Inspector Entries
  • Highlight Unconnected Stations
  • Background of Labels in the Graphics Window
  • Show Used Planes Within a Scan
  • New Keyboard Shortcuts
• Import / Export
  • Trimble RMX Export
  • LupoScan Import: Keeping project groups

Bugfixes

• Order of scans after import
• Import of vertical axes from lps-files
• Shifting the Sectional View in YZ-Direction
• Switch of Datum-Independent Matching
• The “Hide Points” Tool Button Deactivated Itself After the Block Adjustment
• Alphanumerical Sorting of Entries in the Registration Dialogue and the Inspector
• Focus function

Release notes

New functions

• Import vertical axes: Optional During Station Import or Plane Detection
• Import Function for Existing Registrations and Vertical Axes
• Selection of Stations for the Export
• Voxel Sampling
• Direction-dependent Colouring of detected planes
• Displaying Selected Planes
• Operating Convenience
  • Plane-based cross section
  • Connecting Stations without Double Clicking
  • Database Access Accelerated when Deleting Stations
  • Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Moving Stations to Another Group
  • Saving the Positions of Non-Modal Dialogues
  • Display of the Station ID Extended to 30 Characters
  • Selection of Multiple Relations
  • Number of Lines Configurable in the Inspector Browser
  • Enhanced Focus Function
  • Approximate Orientation from Existing Result or Global Stations

New functions

• Computations, Global Stations and Reference Frames
• Managing Registrations
• Assigning Global Stations to Reference Frames
• Computations with Reference Frames
• Application of Reference Frames
• Adding Background Images
• Inspector
• Dealing with E57 Files Containing Several Scans
• Importing and Merging of Projects