A site is captured over and over. Capture Grid is how you see every capture on the project at once and jump to any of them — by area down the side, by date across the top.
Opening it
Click Capture Grid in the topbar. The overlay is titled Captures by Area & Date.
Reading the grid
- Rows are the areas of the project — buildings and the levels inside them. Collapse a building to see it as one row.
- Columns are capture dates, oldest to newest.
- A cell means there is a capture for that area on that date. Click it to open that capture; you land in the same place you were standing, on the new date, where the capture allows it.
- An empty cell means nobody captured that area that day. It is not an error and it is common.
This is the fastest way to answer “when was this area last captured?” — read along the row to the rightmost filled cell.
Filtering by capture type
Where a project has more than one kind of capture, the grid can be filtered so only one type is shown.
Levels with no captures
A level that has never been captured still appears as a row, with no cells in it, so you can see the gap rather than having to notice an absence.
The capture timeline
The grid is the whole project at once. The timeline is the opposite view — one spot, every date, without leaving where you are standing. In 4.0 changing date meant losing your position; here the position holds and the date changes, so what you get is two views of the same place rather than two places.
The capture date chip sits at the top left of the viewport and shows the date you are on. Click See other dates and the strip opens across the top of the viewer — most recent on the left, running back through the history, with an arrow at the end for longer ones.
Which photo you are actually looking at
Each thumbnail is the capture nearest to where you are standing on that date — not a fixed camera position. Capture positions move between visits, so the nearest one on an older date can be some way from where you are now.
That is what the distance badge is for. A thumbnail reading 5+ m away is telling you the nearest capture on that date is more than five metres off. It is still worth looking at; it is not a like-for-like comparison, and the badge is there so you do not treat it as one.
When there is no photo
Two states say so rather than showing you nothing:
- Capture available, with no thumbnail — there is a capture on that date, but none could be generated for your position.
- No capture on this level — that date has captures elsewhere in the project, just not on the level you are standing on.
Reading the analysis from the strip
A thumbnail can carry a small sparkle badge, which means Capture Intelligence found something in that capture. This is the fastest way to scan a history — you can see which visits turned something up without opening any of them.
Hover a badged thumbnail and the image is replaced in place by the first lines of the analysis, with a Show more button. Show more opens the full analysis, and Open inside it travels the viewer to that capture.
What the analysis contains, and which captures get one, is Capture Intelligence Overview in Cupix Intelligence.