The Project Tab is the main tab of the PointCloud Project Manager, and should be the first thing you see after pulling up the Project Manager. It is from here that you can manage your project files, as well as perform most of the operations on your datasets that affect them in their entirety. Interaction with items in the project is done via right-clicking them to bring up a menu with all the actions that can be performed on them.
This group of buttons all relate to the current working project. If there is no current working project the Close, Save and Save As buttons will be inactive.
New Begins a new project. If there is already a project open the user will be prompted to save changes, close it, or cancel.
Open Opens an already existing project. If there is already a project open the user will be prompted to save changes, close it, or cancel.
Close Closes the current open project. If there are any unsaved changes, the user will be prompted if they wish to save them.
Save Saves the currently open project.
Save As Saves the currently open project to a new name specified by the user. Take note, this will not create new copies of the Mesh, Scan, and Cloud files.
Projects in Carlson PointCloud are arranged into a tree structure. Items in projects are divided into two separate categories: Instrument Data and Processed Data. Instrument Data consists of data in its raw form directly from the scanner that needs to be registered to a common coordinate system. This largely consists of raw Scans and the data associated with them (Target Points, Control Points, Reflectors, Images, etc). Processed Data is data that has been registered to a common coordinate system. Clouds, Contours, Coordinate Points, Grids, Layers, Meshes, Planes, Polylines, Profiles, Sections and Text all fall under this category. Scans, Clouds, and Meshes are the three central data objects to Carlson PointCloud and upon which most operations are performed.