Fit Sphere

Menu

This tool is accessible via the 'Tools > Fit > Sphere' menu.

Description

This tool fits a sphere on a cloud.

Procedure

Select one or several point clouds then launch this tool.

CloudCompare will fit a sphere primitive on each cloud (the radius will be detected automatically).

Fitted sphere

In the console the following pieces of information will be output:

• center (can also be found as the center of the sphere bounding-box in the sphere entity properties)
• radius (can also be found in the sphere entity properties)
• sphere fitting RMS (is recalled in the default sphere entity name)

Note: theoretically the sphere fitting algorithm can handle up to 50% outliers.