CloudCompare Update List Message

 
From: "CloudCompare Update List" <cloudcompare@PROTECTED>
Date: March 10th 2013
Dear CloudCompare enthusiasts,

A new version has been released. You'll find it here: Many thanks to Ingo Maindorfer (Fraunhofer Institute of Freiburg) for the Windows installers and to Andy Maloney (HemoSpat) for the Mac OS bundling into proper applications!

This is an intermediate release with a lot of small enhancements (and bug fixes, hum hum):
  • Points size can now be independently set for each clouud
See the 'Point size' combo-box in the cloud's properties:
  • The 'Align with point pairs' tool can now be used with only one cloud selected   
In this case reference points must be manually added with the 'pencil' icon:

  • Point picking mechanism enhanced:
    • point marker is now a (selectable) 3D sphere
    • point marker default size is customizable via display options dialog
    • mesh triangles can now be picked (early version: creates a 3-points label)
    • "Point list picking" tool
      • automatically pastes last picked point in clipboard. String format: " CC_POINT_#i(x,y,z) " (where i is the index in the current list)
    • "Point picking" tool:
      • when picking 3 successive points ('triplet' mode), the 3 corresponding angles are displayed

  • New tool: 'primitive factory'
    • lets you create custom primitives (plane, box, sphere, cylinder, cone, torus or dish)
    • accessible via the 'Tools > Primitive factory' menu entry or a dedicated icon in the main toolbar 

  • 'Height grid generation' tool enhanced:
The number of points per cell can now be saved as a scalar field ('save per-cell count as SF' checkbox):

  • qRansacSD ('Ransac Shape Detection') plugin enhanced:
    • proper handling of cone and torus primitives (display in 3D, etc.)
    • the expected primitive types can now be selected (with checkboxes)
  • qKinect plugin enhanced:
    • continuous display of video/3D flow
    • multiple acquisitions are now possible without closing the dialog each time
  • Manual transformation tool enhanced:
The user can constrain rotation around a given axis and translation along custom dimension(s)

  • New option "Show 3D name" for 3D entities:
    • display the name of the entity in the 3D view (in the middle of its bounding-box by default)
    • can be (recursively) toggled with 'Edit > Toggle > 3D name' (shortcut: D)
      • with the dedicated checkbox in the properties dialog of each entity
      • with a right click on the entity entry in the DB tree

  • "Toggle materials/textures" entry added to the DB tree context menu (and in the 'Edit > Toggle' sub-menu)
  • New display options (display dialog):
    • point marker size (see above)
    • histogram background color
    • label color
  • New option for computing normals (CC's way, not qPCL's)
    • +/-barycenter: normals are oriented by pointing outwards or towards the barycenter
  • Limits for auto-decimation are now:
    • 10M. points for a cloud
    • 2.5M. faces for a mesh
  • New command lines for ccViewer:
    • '-top' to make the window 'alawys on top'
    • '-win [X] [Y] [W] [H]' to set the position (X,Y) and size (W,H) of the window
  • New icons for CloudCompare and ccViewer
  • PCL (Point Cloud Library) 'PCD' files can now be opened without the qPCL plugin
    • only works with ascii and uncompressed binary versions for the moment
  • Bug fixes:
    • in the 'Point list picking' tool, when exporting a list of picked points THEN cancelling the picking process, CC will crash
    • SF scale is now rendered by the 'Render to file' tool
    • qPCL's MLS tool would crash if the input cloud has no displayed scalar field! (+ dependency to Luca's PCL patch is now optional)
    • 'shift on load' information is now preserved when sampling points on a mesh (and during several other operations)
    • a group of labels could be freely displaced, eventually leading to a crash (under some circumstances) if the destination is not one of the label's associated clouds. On the contrary, labels can now be regrouped and displaced as long as they stay below one of their associated clouds.
    • applying an interactive transformation to an entity with an octree could make CC crash (octree was deleted but not removed from DB tree)
    • CC would refuse to open an OBJ file declaring using a material while not defining texture coordinates

You'll also find the new ccViewer versions here:
 And last but not least, you can make donations to the project  via 'Pledgie': Click here to lend your support to: CloudCompare and make a donation at www.pledgie.com !

Enjoy,

CloudCompare Admin

PS: if you can't read properly this message, you can read it here: http://www.danielgm.net/cc/release/notes/20130310/cc_release_notes_20130310.html
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