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Leica TruView User Guide

Created by Eric Munnings

June 2021
Contents:

1.0 Installation and Opening Files:............................................................................................. 1

2.0 Navigating a Scan: ................................................................................................................ 2

3.0 Taking Measurements: ........................................................................................................ 6

1.0 Installation and Opening Files:

TruView can be found at this link:

https://leica-geosystems.com/products/laser-scanners/software/leica-truview

Click “Software” and then “Leica TruView Installer”

Run the downloaded program to install TruView.

Once installed, you can double click an LGS file to open it in TruView, or open TruView and click
on the top left button that looks like a folder and find the LGS file you want to open.
2.0 Navigating a Scan:

Once a file is opened, you will see the plan view (a top-down view, like a map). It will have
multiple red dots. Each of these represents a location that a scan was taken at.

Double clicking any of these red dots will take you to that scan. If photos were taken at that
location, your view will be coloured, if only scan data was taken, it will be black and white. You
can click and drag the mouse to move your view or use your mouse scroll to zoom in and out.
Other red dots will be visible, and double clicking them will take you to that scan.
An Example of a Colour Photo Location

An Example of a Scan Only Location

 In the top left corner, there is a circular
button. It looks like a head with a curved
arrow above it. If you press this, you can
change your viewing method. The default
is called Panorama and was the one
previously described.

Next is Orbit. Orbit allows you to click a

location and rotate your view around that
spot by moving your mouse.

Orthographic Orbit is similar to Orbit but

puts the scan on an orthograhic angle.

Flythru lets you move smoothly around the

scan. Press and hold the left mouse button to move forward, the right mouse button to move
backwards. While moving (holding a mouse button) move your mouse in the direction you’d like
to turn. Scroll wheel can control your movement speed.
If you’d like to jump to a new location (or get hopelessly turned around) you can double click a
red dot in the map in the bottom right corner to go there immediately. Click the button with
the cube and arrows to expand the map to the full screen.
3.0 Taking Measurements:

TruView will let you take several kinds of measurements.

The most useful is distance. Click the ruler icon in the top
left menu. Then click “Measure Distance”.

A blue circle will appear around your mouse. This will help
show what surface you are clicking on. To get a
measurement, click your first point of interest, then click
the second. The program will then show you the absolute
distance between your points, and the XY distance (the
distance between the points excluding the height
difference). Please note that getting measurements can
be difficult, due to every measurement being point-to-
point. For example, finding the distance between parallel planes requires selecting points that
have the same X or Y value.