[QUOTE=wheels]I'm interested in how the interface works...What kind of files does it require?
Does it rebuild data in PDMS or just sort of "referrence" the data? How is the speed?
I was involved in writing the prototype of the interface - some details may have changed since I worked on it, but I think the basics are unchanged.
It "sort of references" the detailed data - using software libraries supplied by the Laser data supliers. The low-level display code in PDMS calls out to the Laser system to get details of the points in the area of interest, and displays them integrated with the PDMS Model. PDMS does store a sort of "skeleton" of the Laser-data though, to help with clashing and knowing where the data is.
The speed seemed OK when I tried it, but it really helped to have the Laser data on your local machine rather than accessed across the network. (Note, I only worked with data from one of the Laser systems, and significant work happened on the project after I moved to other things so the performance characteristics may have changed since)
[QUOTE=wheels]I'm interested in how the interface works...What kind of files does it require?
Does it rebuild data in PDMS or just sort of "referrence" the data? How is the speed?
I was involved in writing the prototype of the interface - some details may have changed since I worked on it, but I think the basics are unchanged.
It "sort of references" the detailed data - using software libraries supplied by the Laser data supliers. The low-level display code in PDMS calls out to the Laser system to get details of the points in the area of interest, and displays them integrated with the PDMS Model. PDMS does store a sort of "skeleton" of the Laser-data though, to help with clashing and knowing where the data is.
The speed seemed OK when I tried it, but it really helped to have the Laser data on your local machine rather than accessed across the network. (Note, I only worked with data from one of the Laser systems, and significant work happened on the project after I moved to other things so the performance characteristics may have changed since)
