RELEASE 4.5 Product Notes

September 2008 The following changes have been made to DAT/EM products between Release 4.4 and Release 4.5. Please review these revisions made to the software and re-install to implement changes. As always, DAT/EM welcomes comments and suggestions from you, our clients, so please don’t hesitate to contact our support department at support@datem.com, or by calling in or faxing us with your requests. Release 4.5 is supported on Windows XP Professional. Testing no longer occurs for Windows 2000, but the software will install for this operating system. If you have a problem, please contact support. Windows VISTA is not supported at this time due to the lack of stereo viewing options for this operating system. Release 4.5 has interfaces to the following 32-bit CAD versions:

AutoCAD: R14-- receives no additional development; AutoDesk 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 products MicroStation: MicroStation V8 and 2004 Edition ArcGIS: ArcMap 9.1 and 9.2 AutoCAD 2008 and 2009 do not have 64-bit operating system interfaces at this time.

SUMMIT EVOLUTION 1. The Leica Topomouse USB input device has been added as compatible hardware with Summit Evolution

Professional and Feature Collection software. The serial version is not supported and has been discontinued by Leica.

2. Technically, breaklines should not cross, and can create holes in the TIN. Contour Creator checks for touching or

tours.

. The Project Viewer orthophoto tools are available for Summit Propack satellite models. ADS40 Leica Kit projects

. Summit implemented memory improvements to the ADS40 Kit project type to minimize memory use and to avoid

For pre-existing ADS40 projects created under Summit's ADS40 Sensor project type, a convenient export option

crossing breaklines. Any crossing line segments have the first crossing segment removed from the contour generation process. Therefore breaklines snapped to each other will still result in reliable and consistent conA change was also made to display the Grid TIN when using the grid option. Prior to Release 4.5, the base TIN was displayed, which is not as detailed.

3may also be processed. Please note that the older ADS40 project types are not supported for ortho photo processing.

4crashing due to exceeding available memory. Improvements were also made to automatically create models from images, and to provide meaningful error messages notifying the user of missing files or errors found in the data.

recreates the project as an ADS40 Kit project type. With little effort, older ADS40 projects can benefit from the improved speed of the newest project type. After exporting, open the new Kit project and use the Update SUP files button in Project Edit.

The Image Adjustment dialog for ADS40 projects was slightly modified to display 12-16-bit imagery better. It is

Spaces are now allowed in the SUP file paths for ADS40 Kit projects.

The default coordinate system is now saved as set in the DAT/EM ADS40 project type.

If no control files exists for the ADS40 Kit project, the easiest thing to do is to use the Control Editor to create a

. If the default is to load images automatically when Project Viewer opens, you can now cancel the image loading

the lower right corner of the window

designed to display 8-bit images.

CON file that contains one vertical point at the average Z of the proejct. Attach the control file in the Project Edit dialog. Without a control file, Summit opens the first model at the Z provided by the ADS40 project, which is always extremely high.

5process for large projects. While the images are loading into the Project Viewer window, an "X" icon appears on

. Click on this icon to discontinue loading the images.

Another added feature for Project Viewer rotates image names (text) to minimize overlapping text.

If "Rotate with Summit Model" is active in the General tab, the dial will display the correct rotation automatically.

6. An option was added to the Generate Models dialog to consider only images that have an exterior orientation.

Images that exist in the project, but have not been oriented, are not considered when creating models. 7. Share Settings.exe is a program used for exporting Summit settings. It creates a file that can be imported into any

other Summit station to duplicate default settings between them. A change was made so the process confirms that both systems have the same release version installed before applying the settings. Share Settings.exe is located in the ...Program Files\Datem Software folder.

8. A request was made to offer an easy way to toggle on and off popular features without creating a custom toolbar.

Quick Options was added to the pulldown menu, and a toolbar was created.

If the toolbar is not in the Summit window, you can open it by selecting Tools -> Customize Toolbars. Check on

"Quick Options" in the Toolbars tab.

9. Automatically building models using exteriors for digital camera projects was creating pseudo models. This was

fixed. 10. The birds-eye menu display was not performing correctly in ProPack project types. This was fixed.

11. The Socet Set project import option now supports scanned aerial project data using .IPF and .GPF files. The .IPF file contains image points, while the .GPF contains points for ground control.

12. The Coordinate Conversion database was updated. Now there are many more options for selecting coordinate

projections, vertical references, and datums. With these additional choices are both 2D and 3D definitions. Summit will post a notice if a 2D selection is made.

You may continue to use this option, but then you must also define a 3D projected point Unit. When selecting a 3D projection, defining the Unit as specifically 3D is not necessary.

To verify that the coordinate system is 3D you can right click on the selection and pick on "View Info".

A dialog appears with two tabs, "Identification" and "Definition". Click "Definition". Then click on the information

icon next to "Point Style". Click the "Definition" tab in the resulting Projected Point Style Viewer dialog. The Dimensions settings should be "3D".

The units should be set to a 3D option. \ The units button Please note that you may need to redefine Blue Marble database options in projects created with earlier Summit versions.

13. Summit provides the ability to swap the left and right images in a model or models.

4. Project Viewer documentation, including orthophoto and mosaic instructions, has been updated to the latest

5. 2D SuperImposition for Summit and Project Viewer has a new tool in Summit's status bar. The "2D SI"

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Click directly on the display in the status bar and key in the new value.

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1display/setting on the status bar allows the user to key in the average project Z or current area Z. This ndisplay is available if 2D SI is checked on in Summit's Options -> SI tab, and there is a model open with groucoordinates. The value displays the average Z obtained from the control available in a project. If there is no control, the user should enter a value for more accurate 2D SI vectors in the stereo view.

An SI Update will occur when the new value is entered. This value is not saved permanently in the project. This

A complete explanation of how and when to use this feature is included in the Summit Evolution manual for

6. There was a change made for importing *.ORI files to ignore blank lines.

7. The setting "Maximum points to load" in the SILidarTool did not work on non-binary files. This was fixed. NOTE: It

8. Now you can merge multiple Summit projects and extract or export portions of existing project files. Projects must

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Select Merge/Extract Projects... from the File pulldown menu in Summit.

option is useful to recalculate 2D SI positioning in mountainous areas where the average project Z is much different than the Z in the area where you are currently working.

Release 4.5 or higher.

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is best to use the Point Translator for large ASCII point files to convert them to binary formats which improve processing speed.

1be of a similar type, like all ADS40 Kit or all aerial. Do not mix incompatible project types. For example, do not combine an ADS40 Kit project with a ProPack satellite project. Also, you must be careful when combining projethat different original files' names are unique. For example, if two different projects use two different cameras, but the camera files are both called camera.cam, this could cause a problem.

Click "Add Projects" to add multiple projects to the dialog, or drag and drop them from Windows Explorer into the

Merge/Extract Projects dialog. Columns list details for each project for Images, Modes and Strips. Each column has an option to "Adjust Other Lists". For example, uncheck an image to remove it from the new merged project. If "Adjust Other Lists" is on, it will be removed from the other projects automatically. Highlighting another project displays that project's details in the columns.

Additional information about the selected project appears at the bottom of the dialog box. When all projects have

been added and edited for desired content, click "Create Project..." to create a new Summit project containing all of the images and orientations from the selected projects and their contents, ready to use for mapping.

19. Control Transfer now has the ability to transfer points from vector files, as well as ortho-rectified images.

SUPERIMPOSITION 1. Speed improvements were made to reduce the time taken when refreshing SI, especially when switching models.

CAPTURE FOR ARCGIS NOTE: Compatible with 32-bit versions of ArcGIS 9.1 and 9.2. 1. FieldUpdate failed to launch properly and was fixed. 2. The Zoom slider on the DAT/EM Capture dialog was expanded to accommodate some users who wanted to see a

larger area in the ArcMap view than was shown in the Summit Evolution view. With ArcGIS, please set the desired zoom scale and always keep the "Automatically match the Image view and CAD windows to the same zoom level" setting ON in Summit's Options -> Main View tab. This setting must be on in order to keep the Summit cursor in the ArcMap view at all times; ArcMap can crash if the cursor leaves its view.

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CAPTURE for AutoCAD NOTE: All changes apply to 32-bit AutoCAD 2000-2009 versions unless stated otherwise. When using AutoCAD 2008-2009, please install the 32-bit version. Capture is not compatible with the 64-bit version of AutoCAD 2008-2009 at this time. The 32-bit version of AutoCAD 2008-2009 will NOT install and run on a 64-bit operating system. 1. SetObjectZ was streaming messages as you moved the mouse or Summit cursor. A selection caused AutoCAD to

crash. This was fixed. 2. BreakLineFilter now saves layer and distance settings between runs. Blocks may be used as filtered objects. 3. DATDRAW, has been added to Capture for AutoCAD 2007, 2008 or 2009 versions only. This is a very powerful

drawing tool with many options and features. It is designed to both create and edit 2D and 3D polylines. Drawing modes may be toggled at any time during the creation of an object. For example, you can begin in point-to-point Line mode, and switch over to Psquare mode for squaring corners without ending the polyline. The following prompt appears when DATDRAW is entered at the command line.

Select "new2d" by typing "2" for creating 2D polylines. The prompt then becomes "Select point on arc [Line 2ptarc

Stream Psquare zRound<Exact> Close Undo]:" Line begins digitizing a 2D polyline in point-to-point mode; 2ptarc activates arc mode; Stream begins stream collection based on settings in the Setup dialog; Psquare creates 90-degree angle between the previous segment and subsequent segments; zRound will activate elevation round-off to the nearest contour interval, which is defined in the Setup dialog; Close closes the polyline, and Undo removes one or more previously digitized points.

Type "3" to select "new3d" and digitize a polyline in 3D. The prompts duplicate those for the 2D option, with the

following exceptions: 3ptarc creates an arc using three digitized points; Xytol(20.0) defines the angle tolerance used for squaring; Zseq[Off] sets a check for elevation slope consistency. Entering "z" toggles between Ascending and Descending. For example, if Zseq is set to Ascending, any point digitized must have an elevation higher than the preceding point or it will not be recorded.

End will prompt the user to "Select Polyline break point:", which determine the location from which the end of the

polyline will be redrawn. Snapping to the endpoint of the polyline appends vertices to the existing element. Inner asks for the first and second break points, then rubber-bands from the first break point ready to digitize the inner

section of the polyline using any of the DATDRAW digitizing modes. Join is an interactive digitizing method of connecting two polylines. The break points on each polyline may be

anywhere along the polylines, or the endpoints. shiftZ is used to change the elevation of a vertex or a 2D polyline.

NOTE: It is recommended to turn off Dynamic Input while using this command. 4. Labelit's "Save Clipped Segments" option was always processing whether on or off. This was fixed. The ability to pick

contours while applying evenly spaced labels was added. Also, Labelit was changed to "Clip Around Label" correctly on polyline closing segments.

5. An option was added to DTMIT to toggle on/off the "drive to ground" setting during collection. A "t" turns on/off the

drive-to-ground feature. To end the session, Type "r" to return to the dialog and click Close. The following shows the prompts at the command line when DTMIT is active.

CAPTURE for MicroStation Changes apply to Capture for 32-bit MicroStation V8/2004 Edition series only. MicroStation V8 version should be 08.05.00.64 or higher. Testing has not been completed for MicroStation XM compatibility, and Release 4.4 is considered a beta release. You are welcome to use Capture for MicroStation XM and report any problems to support@datem.com. However, at this time DAT/EM cannot recommend Capture for XM for map production. (Note: Bentley recommends that hyperthreading be off in the PC BIOS for best performance.) 1. StrokeElement replaces CurveToString for breaking down curves to vectors. CurveToString has been removed from

the command list for Map Editor and Capture. StrokeElement preserves the appearance of the original curve better and processes complex elements properly.

2. Replace Object has a new "Rotate Cells" checkbox. If the checkbox is checked on, the rotation value is enabled and

applied to all replacement operations. If unchecked, the new cell is placed according to the rotation of the element being replaced.

3. Corrections were made in the file listings for some browse lists in dialogs such as BuildingFrame. Some file types were not appearing in the dialog unless "All Files (*.*)" was chosen. Now the file filters are applied correctly. Tooltips also appear correctly. In addition, the last folder visited is saved and re-opened when the list is revisited in the same drawing session.

4. When changing line styles to a custom line style with Change Attributes, the user may now specify a scale for the updated style.

Scaling only applies to custom line styles. The line styles that come with MicroStation are not scalable. 5. Spot height measurements at an editing station are now possible. SPOTX was added as an interactive command for

Map Editor licenses. The key-in for Map Editor's spot elevation command is MESPOTX. 6. JONIIT has several new features with improved performance.

Both "Add Vertex" and "Smooth Vertices" existed in Release 4.4. Add Vertex simply extends one element to the other

using a straight segment. Smooth Vertices performs some smoothing around the join. Peel and Blend was added in Release 4.5. This procedure clips based on the Search/Clip Radius setting and inserts a single vertex at the mid point before joining the elements.

Advanced settings will be completed in the next release. To see advanced settings, you can click on the expand arrow

in the dialog. However, Release 4.5 does not fully support these advanced settings yet. The advanced settings are not selectable.

A brief description of the advanced settings follows for those who may be interested. If there are additional suggestions

you have for the advanced settings area, please contact support. Activating "Condense Levels" will consider "Touch To" elements globally across the master drawing and reference files.

Because reference files cannot be modified, reference file elements will be ignored and the master elements will be modified to extend to them. Different symbology for "Touch To" elements is supported by defining a "Touch to Set" selection set.

7. Datem Profile has many enhancements to provide expanded functionality and dependable performance.

Selecting "Element Start" will drive the cursor to the beginning of the line string for profiling. The second option is to

drive to the snapped "Cursor Location" along the line string to begin profiling. For complex chains, arcs will be stroked as line segments. The Lock movement mode will keep the cursor snapped to

the XY position of the profile.

There are various options for the elements inserted along the profile element. Cells and Points (zero length line

strings) may be placed anywhere along the profile. The option "3D Linestring" creates a separate line string without modifying the original profile. Use "Edit/Densify" to add vertices or make changes to the profile line string itself.

The "Stop" button will break away from the profile and allow the cursor to move normally. "Resume" activates after profiling begins, and may be used for a simple UNDO, to pick up where the last profile run

ended, or to continue profiling after performing another MicroStation command. If a line string was being created during the last profile action, Resume would continue to add vertices on the previously created line string.

8. SI Clip was not working properly due to incorrect clip ranges for master and reference file scans. This was fixed. SI highlighting was improved by only highlighting the most recently selected element, and deleting residual vertexes

after an object was deleted. SI display by levels had problems when reference files were attached, which has been fixed. Turning off the display of a reference file in MicroStation now results in the data not displayed in SI, even if

"References On" is checked on in the SI Settings dialog. 9. Psqr Elm, a utility to square existing elements, has improved validation tools for correct element processing. 10. Touch Ends worked once and then snapping and autolocate failed on subsequent actions. This has been fixed. 11. Complex chains created with AutoArc and DatDraw were non-snappable. While parts of the chain were snappable,

the complex chain was not. These commands were changed so that both the complex chain and its parts are defined as snappable when created.

12. BuildingFrame's complex TIN option was not working properly. Shapes inside of shapes should triangulate to each

other. This was fixed. Viewing in Summit's 3D vector split window with Light 3D Faces on shades the complex object as one element.

Also, BuildingFrame previously ignored the closing segment on a shape; it now triangulates the closing segment properly.

13. PSQR was not displaying vertices on the first run. This was fixed. 14. Running Culvert from the DATEM menu failed and could result in an error "Cell not Found". The menu item has been

corrected to place the current active cell. If the active cell is not set, Culvert will attempt to place a cell named "CULV", which exists in DAT/EM's default cell file.

15. The Datem Coords dialog box on/off status is now saved between MicroStation sessions. The dialog is displayed by default. If the user closes the dialog, it is noted in the registry and no longer displayed. To enable the dialog again, select in from the DATEM pulldown menu or enter the command DATEM COORDS at the command line.

16. Replace Cell scaling was fixed to preserve the scaling when rotations are applied.