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- | ====== Orbit 3DM Plugin for QGIS ===== | ||
- | This pages describes the plugin for QGIS from which a user can connect and interact with the Orbit 3D Mapping Viewer. \\ | ||
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- | Depending on the choice that is made at the welcome page of the plugin or depending on the Orbit environment in which a publication is made, the user will be redirected to the [[dev: | ||
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- | ==== Requirements ==== | ||
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- | **QGIS**\\ | ||
- | QGIS version 3.4 or later is required. | ||
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- | **Browser**\\ | ||
- | See: [[dev: | ||
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- | ====Download and Installation==== | ||
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- | **Download and install QGIS**\\ | ||
- | See: [[https:// | ||
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- | **Download Orbit 3D Mapping Plugin for QGIS**\\ | ||
- | Download the .zip package on the Orbit website: [[https:// | ||
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- | **Install plugin in QGIS**\\ | ||
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- | * Open Plugin Manager in QGIS. | ||
- | * Choose " | ||
- | * Press yes when the " | ||
- | * If everything went well, the " | ||
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- | **First time running the plugin**\\ | ||
- | The plugin tries to install the python " | ||
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- | If QGIS was installed to " | ||
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- | ====Orbit 3D Mapping Toolbar in QGIS ==== | ||
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- | {{: | ||
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- | **Open the 3D Mapping Viewer**\\ | ||
- | When launching the Orbit 3D Mapping Viewer from the toolbar in QGIS, a new tab will be opened in the standard browser of the user. If there is no window active yet in that browser, than a new window will be launched. \\ | ||
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- | On opening a publication or viewer, the Footprints of the resources and Field of Views are made visible in QGIS and are updated when they are changed in the 3D Mapping Viewer. | ||
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- | **Show or hide the footprints**\\ | ||
- | Option to disable the visibility of Orbit layers (Footprints, | ||
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- | **Pick a location in the map canvas to open the viewer**\\ | ||
- | Pick a location on the map canvas in QGIS to refocus all opened Views and the Reference View in the Orbit 3D Mapping Viewer to the chosen location. | ||
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- | **Add the selected objects as overlays to the viewer**\\ | ||
- | This option gives the possibility to visualize features from an external layer on the 3D Mapping Viewer. | ||
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- | Select one or more features in the active layer in QGIS from which the overlay should be made. Click the button to visualize the selected features as overlay on the Orbit 3D Mapping Viewer. \\ | ||
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- | The features are visualized in the 3D Mapping Viewer using the formatting from QGIS. And a new resource is added to the [[dev: | ||
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- | Make a new selection in QGIS (from the same layer or another) and visualize them on the 3D Mapping Viewer to add new features to the existing overlay. A combination of different layer types is possible.\\ | ||
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- | Clear the complete overlay by clicking again on the button in the toolbar. | ||
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- | **Add the measurements to the active layer**\\ | ||
- | This option gives the possibility to save measurements from the Orbit 3D Mapping Viewer in an existing external layer in QGIS. | ||
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- | When executing a measurement in the Orbit 3D Mapping Viewer, the measurement object is visualized in QGIS as part of the 3D Mapping Measurements layer. | ||
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- | Use this button to add the measurement object to the active layer in QGIS. Note that this is only possible if the layer type (Point, Line, Polygon) is the same as the measurement object. | ||
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- | **Open the help pages**\\ | ||
- | Orbit Knowledge Base is opened. |
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