CloudCUBE for Archaeology

Virtualgeo will propose new technologies for the documentation and analysis of cultural heritage in the congress “New researches and studies on the Saint Anastasia’s Urn”, which will take place on April 23rd 2009 at Burovich Cultural Centre in Sesto al Reghena (province of Pordenone, Italy).

Virtualgeo will illustrate in particular the laser scanning survey campaign with a T-Scan laser scanner of Leica Geosystems on the Saint Anastasia’s Urn (placed in the abbey church of Sesto al Reghena), the treatment with CloudCUBE software of the “point clouds” delivered by laser scanner and the various products elaborated starting from the collected data.

The scale plastic model produced with rapid prototyping printer as well as the videos of point clouds acquired and virtual reality applications concerning the Urn will be presented.

Laser scanning and CloudCUBE in extreme environments

The 2009 February issue of  “American Surveyor Magazine”, the monthly magazine on surveying published in the USA, is also on line. The cover and the first pages of the magazine February issue are dedicated to the multidisciplinary project concerning the Mexican caves of Naica. 

The article describes the geological setting, creation and evolution of the caves and their crystals. It goes into the difficulties of the speleological topographic survey and describes the advantages given by laser scanning technology.

The survey of two of the caves of Naica (Cueva de los Cristales and Cueva de las Espadas) performed by Virtualgeo is illustrated as application example of the use of laser scanner instrument in hypogeal contexts. “American Surveyor Magazine” explains how laser data were treated and elaborated to produce the first three-dimensional digital model of the Cave of the Crystals with CloudCUBE software.

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The CloudCUBE Team is pleased to announce that CloudCUBE 2009 - Trial version is now available as a FREE DOWNLOAD and runs in fully functional evaluation mode for 30 days!

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Virtualgeo will present the new version of CloudCUBE 2009 at Intergeo 2008 taking place from September 30th to October 2nd in the fair ground of Bremen (Germany). Virtualgeo is in Hall 6, Stand 6.429.

Our technicians will be glad to present all the new potentialities of CloudCUBE 2009, which has important innovations. The visitors at Virtualgeo booth can have a DVD with the FREE DEMO VERSION of CloudCUBE 2009 (trial version).

The main innovations of CloudCUBE 2009 are:

• managing MORE THAN 500 million points in a single dwg;
• new functionalities to obtain automatically plans, sections, elevations, renderings of point clouds, axonometric projections, 3D model cutaways;
• new 3D modelling techniques with region entities;
• integration of laser scanning surveys and surveys carried out with traditional instruments (GPS, total station).

The main innovations of the new version CloudCUBE 2009 are listed in detail below:

In the frame of Naica Project, which involves more than 40 experts from 17 universities and 2 research centres, Virtualgeo carried out the laser scanning survey of two caves covered with gypsum crystals using the proprietary software CloudCUBE to manage and 3D model the acquired point clouds.

The 3D reconstruction of morphology and crystals of the Cueva de los Cristales (which is the most spectacular of the surveyed caves) is the result of a pilot investigation which can be extended to any other context in which it has to be managed a remarkable morphological complexity and a large amount of survey data.

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Virtualgeo is attending CGKEvent to present the report: “Laser Scanning and Reverse Modelling, the New Survey Boundary. CloudCUBE: Integrated Software on Autocad® Platform for Managing Data Delivered by Laser Scanner”.

This is possible thanks to the hardware and software growth. Today hardware allows to scan with precision both underwater objects, e.g. with interferometric bathymetry, and objects above sea-level, with laser scanning systems. It is then possible to register the two scan types, making them effectively usable without distinction.

On the other side, even software has developed and today it is possible to model directly in three-dimensions on the point clouds acquired by laser scanning and/or interferometric bathymetry and than extract, easily and quickly, from the model the necessary dimensional information.

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Virtualgeo‘s CloudCUBE was indicated as the first software of its type in Italy and in the first three existing at international level, working on AutoCAD® platform and allowing the management and 3D modelling of the “point clouds” delivered by laser scanning instruments.

The CloudCUBE Team is pleased to announce that CloudCUBE 2008 - Trial version is now available as a FREE DOWNLOAD and runs in fully functional evaluation mode for 30 days!

Download now and

TRY IT!

For any of your needs concerning the production of the main architectural representations, CloudCUBE is the software for you!

Nowadays the optimization of the work tools and human resources is basic for guaranteeing quality and margins of profit. For this reason CloudCUBE has been conceived and developed to provide a wide range of possibilities in obtaining the main architectural representations, according to the costs and realization times.

The work which has been carried out by the CloudCUBE development Team in these months, to fully use the potentialities of the dual and multi-core processors, has succeeded in the tests on January 21st, 22nd and 23rd.