CloudCompare is a Free software. Free as in "Free speech", not as in "free beer".
Developing and maintaining a software is never free...
If CloudCompare helps you make or save a lot of money, then please contribute or donate. If you really can't, at least send us an email to say thanks ;-)
we are also in need of equipment (scanners, computers, graphic cards, hard drives, etc.)
and of nice and big datasets to test CloudCompare!
(for compilation instructions, refer to the BUILD.md file)
Python wrappers for CloudCompare
Thanks to our great contributors, CloudCompare now offers several
options to be used with Python in a more integrated way (more than the
command line ;)
Mind that these 2 projects are still work in progress. Constructive feedback is welcome:please declare bugs or ask questions directly on their respective github pages.
This project allows one to load clouds and access their internal data
as numpy arrays, call some of CloudCompare's algorithms, apply your own
processes, and save the result.
This plugin allows to write Python scripts in CloudCompare, by
providing python bindings to the set of CloudCompare’s libraries (that
you can use in C++ plugins) as well as embedding a python interpreter
to run scripts. This plugin can be used to run Python scripts via the
GUI or via the command line.
You'll find the extensive documentation here with all the bulding instructions and examples
we now use 7zip and its 7z format (instead of the more standard zip format) as it is much more efficient
simply decompress the files in their default directory and launch the program with CloudCompare.exe or ccViewer.exe
try not to decompress files onto a previous version (delete/uninstall it first)
you may have to manually install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package 2017
the qFaro I/O plugin is not available in the archive version (you have to use the installer)
Peter Kovesi provides various perceptually efficient colour ramps: https://peterkovesi.com/projects/colourmaps.
You can download them (there's a link in the table under the "Download" section) and load them in CloudCompare once (via the Color Scale Manager - see the "Export / Import" section).
CloudCompare will then remember them.
Last version compatible with old intel / ATI graphic cards (2.6.3 beta)
CloudCompare
2.6.3
Windows 64bits
Installer version:
Archive version:
Last version compatible with Windows 32 bits
CloudCompare
2.6.2
Windows 32bits
Installer version:
Archive version:
ccViewer
1.34
Windows 32bits
Archive version: )
Sketchup plugin
This plugin will let you 'paste' points selected with the 'Point picking list'
tool of CloudCompare in Sketchup. It has been developed by Patrick Biani (see his website).
Mind that the documentation of this plugin is only in french for now.