Orthogonal Polyline Drawing in CloudCompare

[Jay_Ki]

Feature Request: Orthogonal Polyline Drawing in CloudCompare
Dear CloudCompare Developers,

Please add a feature to draw polylines with precise 90° or 180° constraints. Suggested methods:

Shift key snapping – Holding Shift while drawing to lock the line to 90° or 180°.
Numeric input – Allow users to enter exact X, Y, Z coordinates or angles.
If this feature already exists, could you let me know how to use it? Thank you!

This request was written with the assistance of ChatGPT.

[daniel]

For the context, are you referring to the 'Trace polyline' tool?

[Jay_Ki]

yes.
I need to draw straight poly line using x, y.

in my work,
I wanna attach compass(or arrow to north way) on my topview of 3d Model

I'm using attach dxf file.
but It's not comfortable. so I just wanna draw a line on topview.
It is possible on another 3d model program like Rhinoceroes 3D.

[daniel]

Ok, sadly it's not possible, and I am not sure Trace Polyline is meant to be used like that (it normally 'snaps' the polyline vertices to an existing point of the cloud).

This looks like a different tool. But of course, anyone motivated can implement such a tool in CloudCompare.