Methods

Menus

Here are described all the methods of CloudCompare in the order they appear in the menu.

(version: 2.11)

File

• Open
• Open Recent... (open recent files)
• Save
• Global Shift settings
• Primitive factory
• 3D mouse > Enable
• Gamepad > Enable
• Close all (close all loaded entities)
• Quit (should be pretty clear!)

Edit

• Clone
• Merge
• Subsample
• Apply transformation
• Multiply/Scale
• Translate/Rotate
• Segment
• Crop
• Edit global shift and scale
• Toggle (recursive) submenu
• Delete (delete the selected entities)

Colors

• Set unique
• From Scalar fields
• Colorize
• Levels
• Height ramp
• Convert to grey scale
• Convert to scalar field
• Interpolate from another entity
• Enhance with intensities
• Bilateral filter
• Gaussian filter
• Mean filter
• Median filter
• Clear (remove the color field of the selected entities)

Normals

• Compute
• Invert
• Orient normals > With Minimum Spanning Tree
• Orient normals > with Fast Marching
• Convert to > HSV colors
• Convert to > Dip & Dip direction SFs
• Export normals to SF(s)
• Set SF(s) as normal
• Clear (remove normals from the selected entities)

Octree

• Compute
• Resample

Grid

• Delete scan grids
• Mesh scan grids

Cloud

• Create single point cloud
• Paste from clipboard

Mesh

• Delaunay 2.5D (XY plane)
• Delaunay 2.5D (best fit plane)
• Surface between two polylines
• Mesh scan grids
• Convert texture/material to RGB
• Sample points
• Smooth (Laplacian)
• Subdivide
• Flip triangles
• Measure surface
• Measure volume
• Flag vertices by type

Mesh \ Scalar field

• Smooth
• Enhance

Polyline

• Sample points

Plane

• Create
• Fit
• Edit
• Flip
• Compare

Sensors

• Edit

Sensors \ TLS/GBL

• Create
• Creat/show Depth Buffer
• Export Depth Buffer
• Compute points visibility (with depth buffer)

Sensors \ Camera Sensor

• Create
• Project uncertainty
• Compute points visibility (with octree)

Sensors \ Other

• View from sensor
• Compute Ranges
• Compute Scattering Angles

Scalar fields

• Show histogram
• Compute stat. params
• Gradient
• Gaussian filter
• Bilateral filter
• Filter by Value
• Convert to RGB
• Convert to random RGB
• Rename
• Add constant SF
• Add classification SF
• Add point indexes as SF
• Export coordinate(s) to SF(s)
• Set SF as coordinate(s)
• Export normals to SF(s)
• Set SF(s) as normal
• Interpolate from another entity
• Split cloud (integer values)
• Arithmetic
• Color Scales Manager
• Delete (deletes the active scalar field of the selected entities)
• Delete all (!) (deletes all scalar fields of the selected entities)

Waveform

• 2D Waveform viewer
• Compress FWF data

Tools

• Level
• Point Picking
• Point list picking
• Trace polyline

Clean

• SOR filter
• Noise filter

Projection

• Unroll
• Rasterize (and contour plot)
• Contour plot (polylines) to mesh
• Export coordinate(s) to SF(s)
• Create surface between two polylines

Registration

• Match bounding-box centers
• Match scales
• Align (point pairs picking)
• Fine registration (ICP)
• Move bounding-box center to origin
• Move bounding-box min corner to origin
• Move bounding-box max corner to origin

Distances

• Cloud/Cloud Dist.
• Cloud/Mesh Dist
• Cloud/Primitive Dist
• Closest Point Set

Volume

• Compute 2.5D volume

Statistics

• Local Statistical Test
• Compute stat. params (active SF)

Segmentation

• Label Connected Comp.
• Cross Section
• Extract Sections / Unfold

Fit

• Plane
• Sphere
• 2D Polygon (facet)
• 2.5D Quadric

Batch export

• Export cloud info
• Export plane info

Other

• Compute geometric features (v2.10+)
• Density (v2.9)
• Curvature (v2.9)
• Roughness (v2.9)
• Remove duplicate points

Display

• Full screen
• Full screen (3D view)
• Refresh
• Toggle Centered Perspective
• Toggle Viewer Based Perspective
• Show cursor coordinates
• Lock rotation about vert. axis
• Enter bubble-view mode
• Camera link
• Render to File
• Display options
• Camera settings
• Save viewport as object
• Adjust zoom
• Test Frame Rate

Lights

• Toggle Sun Light
• Toggle Custom Light

Shaders & Filters

• Remove filter
• dynamically loaded shaders & filters: qEDL, qSSAO, etc.

Active scalar field

• Toggle color scale
• Show previous SF
• Show next SF

Other

• Console
• Toolbars
• Language Translation > ... (below should appear the available and potentially partially supported languages)
• Reset all GUI elements

Plugins

Dynamic content (depends on the current version/platform).

Go to the Plugins section for the full list.

3D Views

• New
• Close
• Close All
• Tile
• Cascade
• Next
• Previous

Help

• Help
• About ...
• About Plugins ...
• Enable Qt warnings in Console (for obvious debug purposes ;)