How to control the number of displayed points to help manage program performance and decrease visual noise.
Set the Maximum Number of Points in the Drawing
You can change this value (controlled by the POINTCLOUDPOINTMAX system variable) only for 64-bit operating systems. Increasing the limit improves visual fidelity for the point clouds. Lowering the limit improves system performance. This option is disabled on 32-bit systems, which are limited to 1.5 million points.
- Click Application menu
Options.At the Command prompt, enter OPTIONS. - In the Options dialog box, 3D Modeling tab, drag the Maximum Point Cloud Points Per Drawing slider to change the number of points that can be displayed in the drawing.
Change the Density of All Displayed Point Clouds
- Click Insert tab Point Cloud panel Density slider.
- Do one of the following:
- Drag the Density slider to increase or decrease the percentage of cloud points that are displayed in the drawing.
- Enter a value that represents a percentage of the maximum number of points set by POINTCLOUDPOINTMAX. For example, if the maximum is set to 2 million, enter 1 (or 1%) to display up to 20,000 points in the drawing.
Change the Density of Displayed Point Clouds During Pan, Zoom, or 3D Orbit
Lowering the realtime density degrades the point cloud display during panning, zooming, and orbiting, but makes those operations quicker.
- Click Insert tab Point Cloud panel Realtime Density slider.
- Do one of the following:
- Drag the slider to increase or decrease the percentage of cloud points that are displayed during realtime pan, zoom, and 3D orbit.
- Enter a value that represents a percentage of the maximum number of points that can be displayed in the drawing during pan, zoom, or 3D orbit. This value represents a percentage of the maximum number of points set by POINTCLOUDPOINTMAX. For example, if the maximum is set to 1.5 million, enter 1 (or 1%) to display up to 15,000 points as you pan, zoom, or orbit.