---
title: "3D Observation Overview"
slug: "3d-observation-overview"
tags: ["AIR3D", "3D", "3D Observation"]
updated: 2026-10-27T23:12:37Z
published: 2026-10-27T23:12:37Z
canonical: "ims-handbook.cenosco.com/3d-observation-overview"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://ims-handbook.cenosco.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# 3D Observation Overview

> [!NOTE]
> This online manual explains the 3D Observation module:
> 
> - How to navigate the 3D Observation Main Screen, including the 3D Model and tabbed Observation project interface.
> - The 3D Observation Review process, including the creation of ECHs and CAIRs.

The 3D Observation module enables you, the AIR Inspector (see [AIR3D User Roles](/v414/docs/air3d-user-roles)), to easily review the findings of the Observation Scan process, and to create ECHs and CAIRs for those any identified integrity issues (OB-Items or Observation Items).

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3D Observation Interface.

## Observation Item relationship to the IMS Hierarchy

During the Machine Vision process:

- Integrity Issues, i.e., OB-Items, are detected.
- The OB-Items are then mapped to positions on 3D model and to specific (intersecting) Equipment (by aligning the Point Clouds with 3D model).
- Multiple OB-Items can be related to one Equipment ID.

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OB-Items are mapped to positions on 3D models and to intersecting Equipment.

It is your job, as the Remote Inspector, to these OB-Items to make sure mapped to the correct Equipment and that the correct Issue API Classes were identified. When this is done you need to add the OB-Items to Equipment Condition Histories (ECHs) and indicate if Corrective Actions (CAIRs) are needed.

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The mapping of OB-Items to the Equipment should be reviewed together with Issue API Classes. Then they must be added to ECHs, and in some cases to CAIRs.