Location and hardware requirements

Point cloud file sizes can quickly reach several GB. Accordingly, this results in requirements and recommendations for the storage location and the PC hardware used.

Choice of storage location

When choosing a storage location, it is important to make sure that there is enough storage space available for the very large amounts of data. Moving it to an external hard drive or server does not make sense for performance reasons. Storage on an SSD disk is recommended.

For use in Dietrich's, there is no restriction on the project folder. At work, the latest state is saved as a temporary file and log files.

The user can also save relevant scenes. These files require additional storage space. For reasons of clarity, it is a good idea to create a separate folder for each point cloud.

Hardware

Sufficient RAM should be available to calculate the large amounts of data. Depending on the file size of the e57 file, i.e. the number of points, sufficient space is also required on the system hard drive to write a swap file.

The display takes place in the OpenGl workspace, which means that the performance of the graphics card has a massive influence on the performance.

The processor of the hardware is also heavily used by the calculation of the filters.

All in all, the complete setup should be powerful in order to offer sufficient performance even with large point clouds.

Recommendations for this can be found in the system requirements of the installation instructions from Dietrich's.