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Hi, and thanks for the reply again! I would personally apply - and forgot - a good and coarse Global shift at the beginning, just to make sure the coordinates are not too big and no loss of accuracy will happen. Then I would change the coordinate system (rotation / translation) in CloudCompare as it...

Well, the choices in option 2 are "yes", "yes to all" or "no" I have tried both "yes" and "yes to all" but i don't know what's the difference. When opening the point cloud in this way I only see a handful of the points and they display in parallel ve...

Hi! Thanks a ton for the reply. Now that I know what I should be doing, I think I got the hang of it and managed to put a cloud into 0,0,0 for import! Still trying to find out the right x,y,z inputs to get it in the right spot, but I think I'll manage. However I think I know why I struggled - this o...

Hello, I'm a new user of Cloudcompare and am not very experienced with point clouds. I have been trying to reposition a point cloud which I received to fit a BIM coordinate for the purpose of importing it into a design software called Archicad. The point cloud is in .e57 format, because that's what ...