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CloudCompare

provides a set of basic tools for manually editing and rendering 3D points clouds and triangular meshes
提供了一系列对3D点云和纹理的手动编辑和渲染工具功能。

• 支持多种格式

BIN
ASCII
PLY
OBJ
VTK
STL
E57
LAS
Point cloud Library
FBX
SHP
OFF
PTX
FLS
DP
RDB
PSZ
Various other polyline formats

• Plugins

[Windows, Mac OS, Linux] qCompass Easy digitization of geological structures and structural traces on point clouds
[Windows, Mac OS] qVirtualBroom Efficient (road) scan cleaning
[Windows, Mac OS] qHoughNormals Normals computation
[Windows, Mac OS] qHPR Hidden Points Removal
[Windows, Linux] qPCL Interface for PCL library (normals computation, outliers removal, etc.)

[Windows, Mac OS] qPCV Ambient Occlusion for mesh or point cloud (output: per-point 'visibility' as a scalar field)
[Windows, Mac OS, Linux] qPoissonRecon Surface Mesh Reconstruction (for closed surfaces)
[Windows, Linux] qRansacSD Automatic RANSAC Shape Detection
[Windows, Mac OS] qSRA Surface of Revolution Analysis (comparison between a point cloud and a surface of revolution)
[Windows] qCANUPO Point Cloud Classification with CANUPO
[Windows, Mac OS, Linux] qM3C2 Computation of robust signed distances between point clouds
[Windows] qCork Mesh Boolean Operations (Constructive Solid Geometry) based on the Cork library
[Windows, Mac OS] qAnimation Animation rendering plugin
[Windows, Mac OS] qFacets Structural geology plugin
[Windows, Mac OS] qCSF Automatic ground/non-ground classification algorithm based on Cloth Simulation

CloudCompare的操作介绍

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GUI

Here is a quick overview of the main user interface:

主界面 MainWindow

1. Menus

File (open, save, quit, etc.)
* Edit (edit selected entities and their features - colors, normals, scalar fields, etc.)
* Tools (segmentation, registration, projection, etc.)
* Display (display-related options)
* Plugins (loaded plugins)
* 3D Views (3D views management)
* Help (about, help, etc.)

2. Main toolbar (quick access to main editing and processing tools: open/save, point picking, clone, etc.)

3. Scalar fields toolbar (quick access to scalar fields related tools)

4. [Plugins toolbar]
   (http://www.cloudcompare.org/doc/wiki/index.php?title=Icons "Icons") (quick access to currently loaded plugins - standard and OpenGL shaders)

5. View toolbar (quick access to display-related tools)

6. Database tree (for selection and activation of entities and their features)

7. Properties view (information on selected entity)

8. Default 3D view

9. Another 3D view (created with 3D Views > New)

10. Console

Tools and algorithms

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List of all methods by their menu entry
Toolbars and icons
Plugins

Tutorials and guidelines

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Alignment and registration
Distances computation
How to compare two 3D entities
Point picking and Point list picking

Other

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Command line mode
Keyboard shortcuts
More information on the octree structure used in CloudCompare
Orthophotos generation and Bundler import tool