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Hi there,

I hope I am not asking an already asked set of questions, but there are two questions I have been trying to answer about the mesh-mesh distance computation for some time now.

(1) Is there anyway to get the raw data for the outputs from the computations?
(2) What units are the mesh-mesh distances in? Is it just whatever unit the meshes are scaled with?

Thank you so much for any help!

Ah ah, those have been asked many times ;)

1) The easiest way is to export the cloud vertices as an ASCII file (so that you'll get the X Y Z distances etc., line by line for each vertex). Otherwise you can use more evolved formats such as PLY that can export the mesh, its vertices and scalar fields at the same time.

2) Yes. CloudCompare loads the entities (coordinates) as they are in the file and doesn't change them. All distances are computed with the same (implicit) units.