The Align tool inverts the heights of point clouds

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Feing
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The Align tool inverts the heights of point clouds

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Hi everyone
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**Describe the bug**
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When you finish entering the references in the point cloud and click the align button inside the tool box, the cloud is aligned with the reference points (with their corresponding errors). However, this adjustment looks fine in plan and when checking the elevations of the point cloud (isometric view) they are all inverted except those at ground level.
Looking more closely, this occurs when using 4 reference points (not sure if more, not tested). When using 3 points, this situation does not occur -->
**How to reproduce**
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1. Go to the "aligns two clouds by picking" tool.
2. Click on the cloud to be aligned in the pop-up box to configure the reference order.
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3. Move to the points of your choice and that you consider optimal to reference the cloud.
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4. See the error when trying to align the cloud with four reference points.
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**Expected behavior**
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The following image reflects the adjustment made with three points, whose result was as expected (although not quite for the scanned area)
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The following image reflects the adjustment made with three points, whose result is as expected (although not quite for the scanned area)
The result obtained (and not expected) even with acceptable statistical results (rms of approximately 0.08m), but when viewing the isometric view, all the heights were inverted.
**Additional context**
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Difference between log with four (Imagen3.png and Imagen4.png on the left) and three (Imagen5.png and Imagen6.png on the right) benchmarks
**Your environment**
-CC version (or Git hash/tag): 2.13.1, 2.13.2, and 2.14 (alpha) have been tested and all have the same results
-OS and version: Windows 11 Home Single Language 64-bit
-Graphics card: Intel(R) UHD Graphics/NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU
-Qt version (if building): Not built
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Re: The Align tool inverts the heights of point clouds

Post by daniel »

Looks redundant with https://github.com/CloudCompare/CloudCo ... ssues/2080. We will discuss this directly on github.
Daniel, CloudCompare admin
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