Preferences Tab

This article will cover the functions of the Preferences Tab in Collage Site.

With the right hand Workflow Panel opened, tap on the Preferences Tab to give yourself the ability to adjust specific Project Preferences as well as overall User Preferences.

Project Preferences

  • Field of view (deg) - Use this to adjust the extent of the observable data in the main view of your project.

  • Level of detail - Use this to adjust the quality level of the point cloud in your project.

  • Ambient light (EDL) - Use this to adjust the eye-dome lighting of the point cloud data in your project. Eye-dome lighting is a lighting model that accentuates the shapes of topography within a point cloud by grouping objects or surfaces that are close together and shading their outlines, which enhances depth perception.

  • EDL Radius & EDL Contrast - Use these to adjust the outline and shading of the pointcloud data in your project.

User Preferences

  • Show grid - Use this toggle to turn the project grid on or off.

  • Show grid labels - Use this to toggle the project grid coordinate system labels on or off.

  • Dist. units - Use this to change the displayed distance units in your project.

  • Area units - Use this to change the displayed area units in your project.

  • Volume units - Use this to change the displayed volume units in your project.

  • Color Preferences - Use these to adjust different color schemes throughout your project either by inserting hex values or using the RGB selection dot.

  • Number of decimals - Use this to adjust the number of decimal digits that are displayed when showing coordinate or property values.

  • Battery Saver Mode - Use this toggle to ensure device resources conserve power when Collage Site is running. Having this setting enabled will result in slightly diminished performance.

  • Background Processing - Use this toggle to enable or disable background processing in Collage Site.

  • Automatically delete orphan layers - Use this toggle to decide whether or not orphan layers will automatically be deleted when deleting Collage Site projects. Orphan layers are data layers that only exist in one project.