Short course at the Virtual Geoscience Conference 2021 (in English)

You can download the course presentations (ppt) here

Dev Course 2020 - for developers / contributors (in English)

You can download the course files here

CICESE 2015 Workshop on point clouds (in English)

Check the web page on OpenTopography.org dedicated to the CICESE 2015 workshop on point clouds. See the 'Thursday' section (several links and even a YouTube recording of the morning session).

Short course at the SFPT Conference 2018 (in French)

You can download the course presentations (ppt) here

MOOC course by the University of Alicante (in Spanish)

See the presentation of the course here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7zKj3-k9BY (then look for  the links below the video)

Tutorial videos

The following tutorial videos have been made by Eugene Liscio (www.ai2-3d.com, all rights reserved).

First introductory tutorial video (basic concepts: registration, distance computation, etc.)


you can download the 2 clouds used in this tutorial here
(20 Mb 7zip archive - 2 files @ CloudCompare BIN V2 format inside)

About the (new) interactive alignment tool (by picking - at least - 3 pairs of points)

How to convert a scalar field (intensity, etc.) to RGB colors (to export to 3ds Max for instance)

How to segment a point cloud and interactively move/rotate entities

How to subsample a point cloud and how to sample points on a mesh


Primitive Matching and Measurements in CloudCompare


Other related videos

See our Youtube channel compiling all videos related to CloudCompare.