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That must be it, several of the other online calculators show the formula as having the absolute value of the numerator but the number from cloudcompare definitely makes more sense. Thanks for all of your help with this!

Good to know, for what I was doing I couldnt see a difference between the cloud to mesh distance and the point to mesh calculation when I ran each one. See the link below to the calculator I used. The values in the snip are the ones I retrieved from my best fit plane and point in cloud compare. http...

Ahhh ok thank you that makes more sense now! I am basically trying to define the equation of the plane to check some point-to-plane distances we are calculating using another online calculator for a point cloud. But what's weird is based on the equation of the plane that I extracted using that metho...

Hey WargodHernandez,

I am very new to this and coding to be honest, is there a command window to enter this into to get these values?

Hello, I am very new to CloudCompare and working with point clouds. I created a best-fit plane to a part of a point cloud that I extracted and I was looking to extract the formula for the plane in the Ax+By+Cz+D=0 format. I think I understand how to get the A,B, and C normal variables but does anybo...