Welcome to Trendspek! To get you started quickly, let's go over some of the fundamentals of using your new software.
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Logging In & Your Dashboard
Visit Your Asset
When you login, you will land on the dashboard. Depending on your access level, you will see a list of assets. You can access any of these assets by clicking the "Visit" button.
Settings Panel
Click the cog icon in the top navigation panel to make changes to your account, check and review our policies. Spend a few minutes to understand what the functions do, to make your use of Trendspek effective!
Help Center
Click the lifebuoy icon to open our Support Center, where you’ll find step-by-step guides, video explainers and walkthroughs for all our features.
Platform Tools
This side panel includes platform-wide tools, including:Permissions on usage
Uploader tool
Capture Analysis tool
Templates to streamline processes
Account Management and Settings
Contacting the Helpdesk
In Your Asset: Top Navigation
Once you’ve clicked to view your asset, you’ll be redirected to the Inspect Page to interact with it in high-fidelity 3D. You’ll see tools within the top navigation panel, and down the right side of the page. Here’s what each nav item does.
| Asset Relative Level: Set your asset’s relative Level Share Asset: Invite your team to the Asset. |
Discussions | |
Files | |
| Reporting |
Support |
In Your Asset: Side Navigation
View | |
Reset | |
Full Screen Mode | |
Settings | |
Screenshot | |
Clipping Box | |
Layers |
Configuring Different Settings
Click the cog to view and interact your 3D model with specific settings.
Fly Between: Zoom into an annotation’s location when selected.
Collision Detection: Toggle off to fly through the model (particularly useful for underwharf/ bridge structures).
Labels: Show annotation labels.
Cameras: Location of drone cameras.
Drawing Visibility: Transparency of label.
Basemap Style: Select different backgrounds when viewing your 3D model.
Navigating Around Your Asset
Trendspek allows 360° navigation around your 3D model. You can zoom into the millimeter, orbit, pan and isolate specific areas of interest using the clipping box.
ORBITING
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ZOOM IN AND OUT To zoom in and out:
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PANNING To laterally move side to side:
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CLICK TO VIEW To open pins and annotations:
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CLICK TO DRAW To start a new drawing:
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Creating Annotations
To Create Annotations
Right click on your model to open up the the annotation options, and click on the “Start Drawing” button. You can measure and draw polygons. Once complete click on “Finish” then “Create”.
Annotation Panel
When you click on “Create”, an Annotation Panel pops up. This is where you can capture key information about your annotation.
There are a number of sub-pages on the Annotation Panel including:
Drawings: Change icons/color
Data: Use and assign templates
Images: View all original drone capture images
Files: Upload and catalogue additional data
Panoramas: View panoramic images
Discussions: Collaborate and discuss
History: Documents audit trail of the annotation
Organising Annotations into Folders
Marking up your model is super easy using the drawing tools. You can create and neatly organise hundreds of annotations with labels, folders and sub-folders, and find something specific using the search bar.
All annotations will be listed within the Annotations List, click the on the left-hand side of the screen.
Customising Annotations
In Trendspek, update your annotations with icons and labels so that they are visible on your 3D model, making it easy to access your information quickly.
You can update these by clicking on the Annotation Panel, where the individual annotation card opens on the right. Here, update the icons to suit the category of annotations for easy visibility for the user.
Layering Data in Single View
The Layers feature is a tool to review and monitor your asset over time. Review multiple datasets of each of your assets; Single View only, Side-by-Side or Overlayed. Examples below.
You can compare asset condition over time, compare different data outputs such as Reality, Thermal, Laser Scan.
Viewing and Generating Reports
On the reporting page, access all annotations made on your 3D model, and use filtering tools to select specific data. You can export the data, display or hide specific fields.
Video Overview (10 min)
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