CloudCompare Version 2.6.1 User manual Index table Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................................ 7 History ............................................................................................................................................................................. 7 Philosophy ....................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Point cloud Vs Mesh ................................................................................................................................................... 7 Scalar fields ................................................................................................................................................................. 8 Some technical considerations ....................................................................................................................................... 8 Portable ....................................................................................................................................................................... 8 Trade-off between storage and speed ........................................................................................................................ 8 Recent evolution ............................................................................................................................................................. 9 License ............................................................................................................................................................................ 9 Online version ................................................................................................................................................................. 9 General concepts .............................................................................................................................................................. 10 Graphical User Interface ............................................................................................................................................... 10 Entities .......................................................................................................................................................................... 11 Main entities ............................................................................................................................................................. 11 Point cloud associated structures ............................................................................................................................. 12 Other entities ............................................................................................................................................................ 13 DB tree .......................................................................................................................................................................... 15 Drag and drop ........................................................................................................................................................... 15 Selection.................................................................................................................................................................... 15 Context menu ........................................................................................................................................................... 15 Entity properties ........................................................................................................................................................... 16 Scalar field display parameters editor ...................................................................................................................... 17 Supported file formats .................................................................................................................................................. 18 Display modes ............................................................................................................................................................... 20 Main display modes .................................................................................................................................................. 20 Global Shift and Scale ................................................................................................................................................... 23 Introduction .............................................................................................................................................................. 23 But why? ................................................................................................................................................................... 23 Mathematics ............................................................................................................................................................. 23 Properties .................................................................................................................................................................. 24 Edition ....................................................................................................................................................................... 24 Bookmarks ................................................................................................................................................................ 24 Tutorials and guidelines .................................................................................................................................................... 25 Alignment and Registration .......................................................................................................................................... 25 General considerations ............................................................................................................................................. 25 Alignment .................................................................................................................................................................. 26 Automatic registration .............................................................................................................................................. 27 Distances Computation ................................................................................................................................................. 29 Cloud-cloud distances ............................................................................................................................................... 29 Cloud-mesh distances ............................................................................................................................................... 31 How to compare two 3D entities .................................................................................................................................. 32 Load data .................................................................................................................................................................. 32 Data preparation ....................................................................................................................................................... 32 Data comparison ....................................................................................................................................................... 34 Tools and algorithms ......................................................................................................................................................... 36 File menu ...................................................................................................................................................................... 36 Open.......................................................................................................................................................................... 36 Save ........................................................................................................................................................................... 37 Primitive Factory ....................................................................................................................................................... 38 3D mouse > Enable ................................................................................................................................................... 39 Close all ..................................................................................................................................................................... 39 Quit ........................................................................................................................................................................... 39 Edit menu ...................................................................................................................................................................... 40 Clone ........................................................................................................................................................................