LECIA TRUVIEW

Install
32‐bit version of Internet Explorer. To check this, open Internet Explorer and click on the Help Button,
then choose “About Internet Explorer.” If the window that opens does not say 64‐bit, then you are
running the 32‐bit version. If the window does say that it is 64‐bit, install a 32‐bit version to use for
running TruView.

Check Your Internet Options. If there are not set correctly, TruView will not run. To check your settings,
in Internet Explorer, go to the Tools menu and choose “Internet Options.”

On the “Security” tab, uncheck the box that says, “Enable Protected Mode”. If the box is checked and
you uncheck it, you need to close and re‐open Internet Explorer.

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On the “Advanced” tab, scroll down to the “Security” section. Check the first two boxes, which allow
active content to run from CDs or files on My Computer.

TruView is an Internet Explorer add‐on and must be enabled to work. To check this, in Internet
Explorer, go to the Tools Menu and click on “Manage add‐ons.”

Scroll down to the “Leica Geosystems, Inc.” submenu and make sure any and all add‐ons listed under
this heading have the Status of “Enabled.”

If any of the items under this heading are “Disabled,” choose the item and click the “Enable” button in
the bottom right corner.

Turn off your Pop‐Up Blocker. In Internet Explorer, go to the Tools Menu and click on “Pop‐up Blocker”
and click “Turn off Pop‐up Blocker.”

When you open Internet Explorer to open a TruView, choose the “Allow” button if you are prompted to
decide whether you will let the Leica TruView plug‐in run.

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Basic Concepts
Leica TruView is very simple to use. After you understand the basic concepts you will find it is easy to
view, markup and measure point cloud data. The main thing to understand about Leica TruView is that it
has two basic working modes: View/3D Measure and Snapshot Markup.

View and Measure Mode

In the View and 3D Measure mode, the Measure accordion tab

and 3D Measure navbar tab are highlighted. TruView always opens in the Measure mode.

This mode lets you move your viewpoint in/out and around the scene, also allowing to jump from view to
view so you can find and look at your exact area of interest. It also lets you measure between two points
or get the coordinate information for a single point. While in 3D Measure mode, your measurements
appear in the Measurement Properties table under the Control Panel at the left of the screen. However,
this mode does not retain those values as permanent markups. They disappear if you change modes. If
you want to place and save a dimension markup, use Snapshot Markup Mode.

Snapshot Markup Mode & Snapshots

In Snapshot Markup mode, the Markup accordion tab and

Snapshot Markup navbar tab are highlighted.

This mode lets you place markups such as arrows, rectangles and text. In Snapshot Markup mode the
current view is frozen like a screen capture or Snapshot. Snapshot Markups are placed as a group on the
saved Snapshot view. You may save many Snapshot views, each with its own name and group of
markups. You may rename saved Snapshots in Snapshot Properties, by expanding the Snapshots
accordion tab at the top of the left Control Panel.

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Creating Snapshot Markups

To create a Snapshot Markup you simply need to select any of the markup tool icons in the Snapshot
Markups tab section in the Navbar at the top of the screen. These are called “Snapshot Markups”
because as soon as you place a markup the screen is “Frozen” and a Snapshot is created.

After you place a markup and a snaphot has been created, you can add other markups to that snapshot.

To create another snapshot with more markups you need to switch back to 3D Measure mode and
change the viewpoint. Now you can start creating more markups in this new location and they will be
placed into a new snapshot.

You also can recall an existing snapshot (from the Markups Tab) and add additional markups to the
snapshot.

Saving Markups

Markups (and Snapshots) are automatically saved as you create them. The next time you visit the same
TruView scene you will see all of the Snapshots you created (on the Snapshot tab), and you can recall
each Snapshot to review the markups.

This is true regardless of where you accessed the TruView scene. For instance, suppose you visited a
website that had the TruView scene, and you added markups. Then the next time you access this same
scene (from the same computer) you will be able to recall the Snapshots and see the markups from your
earlier session.

This “saving” is automatic. You do not need to do anything to have the Snapshots saved.

These automatically saved Snapshots and markups are NOT visible to anyone else. They are only visible
on the computer that created them. However, if you wish to share them with others, then you need to
export them.

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Exporting Snapshot Markups

If you want to export your Snapshot Markups for other users to see you simply use the Export button in
the Markup Data panel under the Neighbors/File Mgmt accordion tab. This allows you to save them to an
XML file. You must name the file with an “.xml” file extension.

Hint: If you look at the Internet Explorer address bar, you will see an address that looks something like
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Leica Geosystems\TruView\FullTruView.xml".

When you export the Snapshot Markups, it's good practice to name the XML file in a manner such that
others can determine which TruView scene it belongs to. The TruView browser cannot determine which
TruView scene is associated with an individual Snapshot Markup XML file. Try to select a name such as
BoilerRoomTV1.xml to help other users understand which TruView scene matches with which Snapshot
Markup XML file.

After you export the XML file, you can send it to other users to use on their own computer when looking at
the same TruView scene, or you can send it to the webmaster who is in charge of the web hosted
TruView scene. The webmaster can add the Snapshot Markups XML file to the web location so all users
can see the markups.

Importing Snapshot Markups

If someone sends you a Snapshot Markup XML file (see Exporting Markups) you can import those
Snapshot Markups into your current TruView session. You need to be sure that you have the same
TruView scene loaded that corresponds to the Snapshot Markup file. Hopefully, the user has named the
file to make it easy to associate with the correct TruView Snapshot.

To import the Snapshot Markups, use the Import button in the Markup Data panel under the
Neighbors/File Mgmt accordion tab.

Snapshots saved within the imported XML file are added to the Snapshots listed in your current TruView
session.

Loading Markups from the Web (or a Central Disk Location)

If there are Snapshot Markups stored with the TruView scene on the Web or other centralized location,
then you can load them by using the “Load From Server” button in the Markup Data panel under the
Neighbors/File Mgmt accordion tab.

To view Snapshot Markups that are stored in the centralized location, simply press the “Load From
Server” button on the Snapshot Markups panel. If a markup.xml file exists in the directory, it will be
automatically loaded. If no file exists, nothing will be loaded.

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