Camera Controls

Position and Rotation

Rotation:

Click and Drag OR One-finger Touchscreen Drag

Position (up, down, left, right):

Ctrl+Click and Drag OR Two-finger Touchscreen Drag

Zoom In/Out:

Use scroll wheel OR use normal zoom gesture for your device

Reset View

Click "Reset View" to reset the camera back to the origin.

ViewCube

Click on the sides of the ViewCube to snap the camera to that perspective

Inspection Points

Label Points

Inspection points are represented with red cubes. Toggle "Label Inspection Points" to label each point with a unique letter:

Quick Drone

Quick Drone Model

For the transparent model, the red line represents the velocity of the drone at that point. Information is displayed in "Quick Drone Data".

Path Options

Path Options Menu

Right-click a point on a visible path to highlight, change visibility, or move the transparent (Quick Drone) drone model to that position

Highlighted Path

About

The highlighted path can be chosen to view a simulated drone flight along that path.

• This path can be selected in the "Path Toggle" in the Analyze sidebar menu
• Only one path can be highlighted at a time
• The first-person POV of the simulated flight is in "Viewer" and speed, position, and rotation data of the drone is in "Drone Data"

The Drone

Drone by Mateus Schwaab on Sketchfab

About 3D_rone

Application Background

Large buildings must be routinely inspected in order to ensure safety. Specifically, buildings such as sports arenas must have the ceiling trusses inspected. Each "joint/node" where the truss meets must be visually inspected for defects. Traditionally, this has been an arduous process, done by using scissor lifts and continually going up/down many times in order to cover the entire space. This obviously is very inefficient and slow. Due to the difficult nature of the task, it was not uncommon for these inspections to be skipped altogether. With the advent of modern drone technology, the task of inspecting large buildings has been streamlined.

With that being said, flying drones is a difficult task. It is very much subject to human error and crashes may occur frequently when flying in difficult or unfamiliar environments. Additionally, in indoors environments there is little or no GPS signal, and so flights must be manual. Given that flying in unfamiliar indoor environments is so difficult, it would be beneficial to provide some medium for training and familiarizing novice pilots to fly in a particular space before making the flight on-site. That is, to familiarize and train people to repeat or perform a similar flight path to that of a path taken during an inspection by an expert drone pilot.

The Application

This app seeks to provide a web-based method of visualizing drone flights used in interior building inspections, or wherever autonomous GPS-driven flights are not feasible. This visualization will enable drone pilots to better understand the flight paths of professional pilots who have already conducted simulated inspections within the particular space. Delivering this functionality is contingent on communicating spatial flight path data intuitively within a 3D space.