To Work With Cropping Point Clouds

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

  1. In the drawing area, select the point cloud.
  2. Select the shape of the area you want to crop.
    Note: The cropping is created relative to the current view, not the current UCS.
    • To specify a rectangular area, click Point Cloud tab Cropping panel Create Crop (flyout). Find
    • To specify a series of points to define a custom polygon shape, click Point Cloud tab Cropping panel Create Crop (flyout). Find
      Note: Press Enter to close the polygon.
    • To specify the center point and radius of a circle, click Point Cloud tab Cropping panel Create Crop (flyout). Find
  3. 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.

  1. Select a point cloud with cropped areas.
  2. Click Point Cloud tab Cropping panel Invert. Find

Show or Hide Cropped Areas

  1. Select a point cloud with cropped areas.
  2. Click Point Cloud tab Cropping panel Show/Hide. Find

Remove Cropped Areas

  1. Select a point cloud with cropped areas.
  2. Do one of the following:
    • To remove the last cropped area, click Point Cloud tab Cropping panelUncrop Last. Find
    • To remove all cropped areas, click Point Cloud tab Cropping panelUncrop All. Find

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