Splitting a point cloud into equal parts

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Blasphem
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Splitting a point cloud into equal parts

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Hello

Is there any tool or other option that i can split a point cloud in e57 into equal parts (along single axis) ?
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Re: Splitting a point cloud into equal parts

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Hum, not sure to fully understand the question, but maybe the 'Cross section' tool can help you?

Another option is to convert one of the dimension to a scalar field ('Edit > Scalar fields > Export coordinate(s) to SF(s)') and then to use the 'Edit > Scalar fields > Filter by value' tool to split the cloud based on the coordinates value/range.
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Re: Splitting a point cloud into equal parts

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Cross section as i sa on youtube videos is what i am looking for. Thank you very much
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Re: Splitting a point cloud into equal parts

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Daniel, one more question - is there any option to mass export all the slices made by cross section tools by "one click" ? Or i need to export each slice one by one ?
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Re: Splitting a point cloud into equal parts

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You can select all the sections at once and save them in a file format that support storing multiple clouds in the same file. CC will show you the options in the drop down list of the file saving dialog. Note that if you select the ASCII/text format, CC will create one text file per cloud automatically.
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