Product Leica Infinity

Date 29th November 2017

From Kevin Hanson

Leica Geosystems AG
Heinrich-Wild-Strasse
CH-9435 Heerbrugg
Switzerland
www.leica-geosystems.com
Table of Contents

1 About this Release .................................................................................................................................................... 3

2 Installation and Upgrades ......................................................................................................................................... 4
3 Leica GS18T ............................................................................................................................................................. 5
4 Surfaces - Cut Fill Maps and Tolerance Areas ......................................................................................................... 5
5 Network Adjustment .................................................................................................................................................. 6
6 COGO ....................................................................................................................................................................... 7
7 Level Processing ....................................................................................................................................................... 7
8 GNSS Post Processing ............................................................................................................................................. 8
9 GNSS Manager – Satellite Availability ...................................................................................................................... 8
10 Map Services ......................................................................................................................................................... 9
11 Import Data............................................................................................................................................................ 9
12 Export Data ........................................................................................................................................................... 9
13 Features – Linework Flags .................................................................................................................................. 10
14 ASCII Export Template Settings ......................................................................................................................... 10
15 General Application Improvements ..................................................................................................................... 11
16 Localisation Tool ................................................................................................................................................. 12

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1 ABOUT THIS RELEASE

LEICA INFINITY 2.4 The bridge between field and office.

This release brings more than 100 added enhancements covering everything from new
GS18T sensor support, data import & export enhancements including important
features extending the ASCII export options, report updates, in application features, and
performance and usability improvements.
Please read this document carefully as these improvements and new features are
outlined in the following chapters.

 Support for GS18T including RTK observations with Tilt

OVERVIEW :
 Surfaces Module with Cut Fill Maps that indicate the height differences between
W HAT ’S NEW two surfaces.
 Surfaces Module with Compute Tolerance lines that indicate areas above or below
a defined height that can be sent back to the field for stakeout.
 Network Adjustments with Pre-Analysis Report
 Network Adjustments improved warning messages that assist the user to identify
data issues
 GNSS Satellite Availability reports including map
 GNSS Processing Enhanced support of Kinematic Track data
 COGO methods to compute points defined from various input methods
 Support for TPS Unleveled Setup method
 Export ASCII enhanced settings to optimize data path to design packages including
AutoCAD Civil3D and Bentley products
 DXF/DWG, IFC data path enhancements
 User defined BaseMap providers
 Codelist and CodeTable character lengths increased
 And many more improvements that add to the user experience.

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2 INSTALLATION AND UPGRADES

INSTALLATION Leica Infinity v2.4.0 Build Maintenance end date:

INFORMATION 2949 30th November 2017

With an active CCP the users will be able to download and install this new version.
Check that the maintenance end data is on or after the date listed above.

New users should download the latest version from the Leica myWorld support website.

CHECK FOR UPDATES From Help & About press Check for updates. When a new version is available you will
be notified that the update can be downloaded from myWorld

OPERATING SYSTEM The following Microsoft® Windows™ operating system editions are supported and
REQUIREMENTS recommended:
• Windows 7
• Windows 8
• Windows 10
Leica Infinity is a 32-bit and 64-bit application that automatically installs the appropriate
version related to your operating system.
Note: you must have administrative privileges on your computer to successfully install
Leica Infinity.
32BIT & 64BIT SUPPORT Infinity will automatically detect the Windows OS platform architecture and install the
appropriate Infinity version.

On a new PC the installation will detect which to install 32bit or 64bit

Updates will detect 32bit or 64bit and update the current installed Infinity with the
version that matches to the Windows OS platform.

MINIMUM HARDWARE • Display: 1024 * 768

REQUIREMENTS • Input: Keyboard and mouse with wheel
• Processor: Dual-Core 1.8 GHz
• RAM: 4 GB
• Disk storage: 5 GB
• Graphics: DirectX9 compatible with 256 MB memory

RECOMMENDED  Dual Display: 1920 * 1280

HARDWARE  Input: Keyboard and mouse with wheel
REQUIREMENTS  Processor: Multi-Core 2.4 GHz or greater
 RAM: 32 GB or greater
 Disk storage: 500 GB or greater
 Graphics: Discrete graphics card DirectX11 compatible with 2 GB memory or
greater

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3 LEICA GS18T

With integrated quality assurance, the GS18T GNSS RTK rover records how the pole
was levelled during the measurement and stores the values, ensuring measurement
traceability and complete quality reporting.

Within Infinity, users can visualise the measured data, including the creation of reports
providing full traceability and quality assurance for themselves and their clients.

Users can also make edits to the Pole length in the case of incorrect input from the field.

TILT VALUES Importing of GS18T data includes if the Tilt values were used during the point
measurement.
- The Point role icon has indication of tilt applied or not
- Tilt values are listed with the GNSS observations in Inspector and properties

4 SURFACES - CUT FILL MAPS AND TOLERANCE AREAS

CUT FILL MAP New functionality is available with the Surfaces Module to allow users to create
comparisons between two surfaces, called Cut Fill Maps. These create new objects that
are available in the Navigator Library and the Inspector Features Groups.

Its possible to generate several surface comparisons from the same reference surface.
This is useful when a user needs to monitor field work to compare differences.

Two types of Cut Fill Map comparisons are available – Height Difference and Tolerance
and are described below.

CUT FILL TYPE: When using this surface comparison, the heights are compared and displayed using
settings to define the height differences visually from the reference surface.
HEIGHT DIFFERENCE

CUT FILL TYPE: This type is for users who want to compare height differences between two surfaces
but also need to compare defined tolerances of the differences. By entering the value
TOLERANCE for what is in tolerance below and above the reference surface, the user will also have
tolerance lines generated that form the contours of the differences.

These tolerance lines can then be exported as a DXF to the field software for easy
stakeout when required to mark the regions out of tolerance.

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 COLOUR RAMP For the Height Difference method, the user sets the number of color steps to be used,
SETTINGS and the size of each step. This will compute the values for applying the color bands.
Any step value can be edited individually.
For color settings, choose from a list of predefined color band themes to get started or
edit the colors of each step if required.

CUT FILL REPORT For both types, users can generate and store reports that will include a visualization of
the surface, a histogram of the height differences and the cut / fill values between the
entire two surfaces.

MATERIAL FACTORS For more accurate volume computation, users can enter values for both the Cut and the
Fill. These values are available in the Cut Fill Report as a separate output.

5 NETWORK ADJUSTMENT

PRE-ANALYSIS With the new Pre-Analysis report, users can now generate a report before performing
the adjustment in order to review unknowns which cannot be solved as well detect
possible weaknesses in the network.

The Pre-Analysis reports are stored to a new group in the Inspector, which allows the
user easy access and ability to compare results based on addressing or extending the
data considered for adjustment.

REPORT UPDATES Network Adjustment reports are updated to include the additional information of the
Loops Report

ERRORS & W ARNINGS Errors and warning messages have been extended and improved to suggest to the
user the source of the error or warning. This will help the user to better understand and
address the inconsistencies.

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 CONFIDENCE LEVELS Users can define the confidence levels as required.

6 COGO

COMPUTE POINT Computing points - the user can choose from a selection of methods with various data
inputs that allow creating a new point or a series of points.
The COGO computation is 2D and identical as the Captivate and SmartWorx Viva field
software. Depending on the compute method the user can define how the height value
should be included for the computation.

MEASURE POINT TO Now added is ability to store a report of the Measure Point to Point results. The user
POINT can measure between several sets of points and can choose which results they wish to
have in the report by closing the not wanted results. This lets a user compare results
such as the differences between grid and ground horizontal distances.

7 LEVEL PROCESSING

IMPORT OF ADJUSTED With the LS FW 2.0 and using HeXML format its possible to import the level line
LEVEL LINES adjusted results as stored from the LS digital level. This is useful for general data
documentation but if required the user can combine or readjust the level lines as
required in Infinity.

REVERSE LEVEL LINE Its now possible to choose a level line and reverse its direction including the ordering of
measurements.

Combine the Reverse Level Line with the Join level line to generate a closed level loop
if required.

SIMULTANEOUS LINES Import level lines that are using the SimBFFB method. This is used when running long
level lines and the user chooses to run two lines simultaneously.

ALLOWABLE LINE Users can input values used to calculate allowable line misclosure, relative to the
MISCLOSURE sensor (a) and required accuracy (b), they wish to achieve.

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 IMPORT SENSOR Using the HeXML export from the LS Digital Level family, the sensor serial number and
DETAILS
STAFF NAME Import of staff names is support such as when using Invar Staffs its common to use the
serial number as the name of the staff.

IMPORT FREE CODES When measuring level lines and using Free Codes, these are now imported and visible
including ability to edit.

8 GNSS POST PROCESSING

DISPLAY OF KINEMATIC
TRACKS Improvements to accessing GNSS tracks includes adding tracks in the Navigator
Library and the Inspector as a separate group. This allows user an easy way to locate
and manage kinematic tracks within a project including view settings, exporting and
deleting.

KINEMATIC TRACK When processing Kinematic data from two or more reference stations a reduced
AVERAGING kinematic track is computed.

The two contributing tracks are merged to generate the average track. There is no
averaging tolerances for these tracks.

PROCESS KINEMATIC Its possible to compute code solution for the kinematic track events. This is useful to
TRACK USING SPP let users view the approximated kinematic track on import of data to a project

From the Info & Settings, GNSS Processing, choose the Process Navigated Track on
Import

9 GNSS MANAGER – SATELLITE AVAILABILITY

AVAILABILITY BY SITE Added to the GNSS Manager, its now possible to compute satellite availability status
prior to field observation campaigns.

A site is needed for any predictions you want to determine the satellite availability for
on a given day. The user can manually enter the position if they have the position
information.

As well, form the background map its easy to use the mouse pointer with a right click,
New Site to quickly extract the position for a site.

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 And direct from within a project the user can select a GNSS position and with the right
click, and by choosing open the Satellite Availability window, the position is taken over.

NEW PREDICTION Once having a site available, the user can generate the prediction for a defined a
period of time for that site. The prediction will be based on the selected GNSS
constellations, time, cut off angle. A prediction requires an almanac and if connected
to the internet Infinity will attempt to download an almanac which relates to the selected
prediction time. Likewise its possible to import or select from the almanacs within the
project.

PREDICTION REPORT From any stored prediction, the user can generate a report to print or to share. All
reports can be saved in the project.

The report includes the map location for the site for easy awareness of the location.

10 MAP SERVICES

WMS & WMTS Users can now define their own BaseMap service providers for using in their projects.
Support for WMS and WMTS services is included.
USER DEFINED
SERVICES
From the Services menu, a user will choose the service that is to added, then define the
URL and once verified can define the default layer they wish to view in the project.

HEXAGON IMAGERY Enhanced for HxIP is ability to select the specific base map layer which should be used
PROGRAM in the graphic view.

11 IMPORT DATA

DBX Support for the TPS Unleveled Setup that allow the user to view the data using the
transformation from the setup method. This includes all measure points and scan
points.

HEXML 1.9 The most current version of HeXML is included with this version.

DXF/DWG Importing AutoCAD 2018 is supported.

IFC, IFC.ZIP Enhancements to reading and displaying attribute information.

12 EXPORT DATA

ASCII SPECIAL CODES Define custom ASCII export settings that combine code and attribute information
including linework flags in a way that supports a better data path to CAD office
packages.

ASCII RTK INFO ASCII export template adds variables for Points measured by RTK including RTK
reference ID, distance from RTK reference, satellites used, and number of epochs.

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HEXML 1.9 The most current version of HeXML is included with this version.

XML Enhancements to using Captivate Stylesheets for export.

13 FEATURES – LINEWORK FLAGS

LINEW ORK FLAGS Users can define the terms used that describe the geometry of the Line and Area such
as BEG for Begin Line or CLO for Closing a line. These settings are found under Info &
Settings, Features group.
This is useful for users who are exporting in ASCII format for AutoCAD or Bentley
softwares to rebuild the feature data.

14 ASCII EXPORT TEMPLATE SETTINGS

SORT BY FEATURE To better support moving field collected data to third party software, its possible to
export ascii data sorted by Feature. This sets the ability to define special code handling
for arranging the code, description, features in the ascii file.

SPECIAL CODE To best take advantage of sorting by feature, a new ASCII field is made available called
Special Code. This is the output for the code expression that sets how the code,
attribute, code information and feature name is written in the ASCII export, including the
separator.

EDIT CODE Easily define the Code Expression by selecting or entering the characters to be part of
EXPRESSION the export. Build the expression with the available related feature information fields.

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15 GENERAL APPLICATION IMPROVEMENTS

LINES/AREAS USING Points used in lines and areas are updated to the GNSS Post Processed point role after
NAVIGATED GNSS post processing. This is for cases when users measuring lines or areas in the field have
POINTS stored raw GNSS observations when no RTK corrections were available.

CODETABLE Several improvements added to the CodeTable including:

- enter up to 48 characters for code names
- enter up to 32 characters for code attributes ( type Text only )

NEW FEATURE When creating features inside Infinity such as Points, Lines/Areas, Surfaces and so on,
TEMPLATE ID’S the ID templates have been enhanced to follow Captivate conventions. As well each
feature type recalls its last used ID for more effecient data management.
CONVERT DWG TO A very useful feature of Infinity allows users of Captivate or iCON Field to import a DWG
DXF drawing file and export to DXF. This is done by importing the DWG in to a project and
by selecting the DWG from the source, choosing Export Selection, and choosing DXF
for export. To expot only a selection of the DWG, select the specific layers or objects
needed to export as required before choosing Export Selection.

SURVEY LAYER Additional Survey Layers are added for displaying specific code data in the project but
MANAGER also available for defining the code data for export to DXF or DWG:
- Point Code Attributes
- Point Code Annotations

JSIM J APANESE GNSS For Japanese customers, its possible to import the local antenna calibration defintions.
ANTENNA IMPORT
OUT OF AVERAGE When the Average point role has a contributor that is outside the computed mean a
FLAGS warning icon is now displayed.

POINT AVERAGING In some countries, its required to measure a survey point and then as a check to stake
STAKED POINTS this point and compare the differences. For this we have added the option Info &
Settings, Point Averaging to include the staked points in point averaging.

GNSS HIDDEN POINTS Points measured by Hidden Point method in the field software Captivate, SmartWorx
Viva are now supporting changes to the RTK Base position when editing or updating
the point source.

The Hidden points are also now included in the Data Source reports.

GNSS ANTENNA GNSS antennas that have been calibrated individually are indicated including their
CALIBRATIONS serial number

COMPUTE FROM For users who are measuring long distances where distances are not possible, the
OBSERVATIONS user can compute from 2 or more TPS observations from different stations, a position
based on Least Squares computation.

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16 LOCALISATION TOOL

LEARNING MATERIALS The Localisation Tool contains additional learning materials that users can download
and use for getting to know the new features of v2.4.

The learning materials include Quick Guides, Sample Data and links to videos that
demonstrate the quick guide steps.

SYTLESHEETS The Localisation Tool now also includes Stylesheets used for Data Export or custom
Data Reports.

A pre-set list of general formats can be downloaded and used for data export.

Contact your local Leica representative if you have a request for a specific data export
format or a need for a customer data report.

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