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Hi,

I am trying to get the normals (directions) of each point in a point cloud and export such data. Is this possible?
I am aware that the CC has 'normal' options, but it seems to calculate them and present but not an option of exporting such information.
To be more specific, I am expecting to get a data with degrees(or directions), accordingly to each point. Below is the example:
<points/Directions>
point1/NW (or in specific degreess)
point2/SW
point3/S
point4/N
etc..

You can convert the normals to 'Dip' and 'Dip direction' values (as scalar fields). Then if you export the corresponding cloud to a Text/ASCII file, then you'll get on each line the coordinates of each point with the corresponding dip and dip directions (as well as potentially other infos - you can ask CC to add a first line with the column headers).