You may try with the PoissonRecon plugin ( https://www.cloudcompare.org/doc/wiki/index.php?title=Poisson_Surface_Reconstruction_(plugin) ). Since I have been unable to use the Poisson Surface Reconstruction plugin, allow me to ask this. Once that plugin performs its cool magic and my ghost points b...
Otherwise you can look at MeshLab [...] There must be a common confusion about MeshLab (or perhaps I am the confused one :-) I have been asking about this issue all over forumland and this is the 3rd. or 4th. time that I am told to try MeshLab. I did it but MeshLab takes meshes as input, whereas I ...
[Newbie Alert] I am attempting to use the Poisson Surface Reconstruction Plugin. I load my cloud point file but the plugin is disabled. Perhaps the underlying data must conform to certain attributes? "to use this plugin, the user must select a point cloud with normals" All my plugins are d...
I am somewhat familiar with CAD programs (3DS Max, Maya, Blender) but this is the first point cloud file (*.pts) that I handle. It comes from a Leica P20 laser scanner. I am looking for best practices for what seems to be the proper route: point cloud ==> Mesh ==> CAD Another requirement: this is a ...
Hello: This is the first time I deal with point cloud files. I received one, coming from a Leica Geosystems scanner which has 36,146,778 lines. When I read it with CloudCompare there are errors about the first 11 lines. Perhaps this is a non-standard file format in which the top 11 rows have a speci...