How to define rectangular, polygonal, or circular areas to crop, and how to invert, show or hide, or remove cropped areas.
Crop a Rectangular, Polygonal, or Circular Area
- In the drawing area, select the point cloud.
- Select the shape of the area you want to crop.
Note: The cropping is created relative to the current view, not the current UCS.
- Specify whether to keep the points inside or outside the crop boundary.
Invert a Cropping
After cropping a point cloud, you can change whether to show the points inside the crop boundary or outside the crop boundary by inverting the crop.
- Select a point cloud with cropped areas.
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Show or Hide Cropped Areas
- Select a point cloud with cropped areas.
- Click
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Remove Cropped Areas
- Select a point cloud with cropped areas.
- Do one of the following:
- To remove the last cropped area, click

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- To remove all cropped areas, click

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