Dear CloudCompare enthusiasts,

A new version has been released

You'll find it here: http://www danielgm net/cc/release/CloudCompare_bin_v2 4_04_01_2012 zip

It is tagged 2 4 as a lot of things have changed behind the scenes Therefore this is a kind of 'beta' version (be kind and don't hesitate to warn us about any - new - bug) Moreover, this release has been compiled with Visual Studio 2008 You may have to install Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86) to launch it

Newest features are: - Simple Laplacian smoothing algorithm for mesh (see Edit > Mesh > Smooth (Laplacian)) - VTK cloud/mesh filter added (import & export - early version!) - The 'Plane orientation' tool now outputs in the console a matrix that can be used to make the resulting plane horizontal (it can be applied to the input cloud with the new 'Apply transformation' tool) - qPCV plugin slightly optimized - qHPR plugin now uses qHull V2012 1 - qPoissonRecon now uses PoissonRecon V3 (http://www cs jhu edu/~misha/Code/PoissonRecon) Works also on Linux now - PLY files saved by CloudCompare now use 'properties' names compatible with MeshLab (to cope with the lack of flexibility of this - however great - tool ;) - All scalar fields associated to a cloud are now saved in PLY files (with their name as property name + prefix 'SCALAR_') - Bug in Delaunay 2D triangulation on least square best fitting plane fixed - Crash during OBJ files loading fixed (the crash occured when the file was refering to materials but no material file was declared)

Enjoy,

CloudCompare Admin

P S : ccViewer, the light viewer based on CloudCompare, has also been updated: v 1 14 - http://www danielgm net/cc/release/ccViewer_v1 0 14_04_01_2012 zip