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Welcome to the CloudCompare wiki!

This is the only up-to-date documentation of CloudCompare V2.6 and higher versions.

Getting started

Introduction

License

Compilation

General considerations

GUI (Graphical User Interface)

Entities

DB tree

Entity properties

Supported file formats

Display modes

Global Shift and Scale

Tools and algorithms

the information you are looking for is probably here

List of all methods by their menu entry

Toolbars and icons

Plugins

Tutorials and guidelines

Alignment and registration

Distances computation

How to compare two 3D entities

Point picking and Point list picking

Other

Command line mode

Keyboard shortcuts

More information on the octree structure used in CloudCompare

Orthophotos generation and Bundler import tool