You can switch them on and off (like Photoshop layers) in the right hand panel. You will now see two versions of your point cloud scan – the original and the reduced version In the Number of Samples field pick somewhere between 100000 (quicker, less detailed) and 1000000 (slower, bigger but more detailed). Reduce the density of the point cloud by choosingįilters > Point Set > Point Cloud Simplification – Accept the default settings by pressing Apply. Once it has imported successfully then you need to do three operations:įilters > Normals, Curvatures and Orientation > Compute Normals for Point Sets Then browse to your ASC point cloud file and select that. ASC – for example if your file was called MyFile.pts it should now be called MyFile.asc Right click to rename the file – and change that last. Your PTS file will change from whatever you called it to the same name but with the letters. Then at the top of the explorer window choose DETAILS and tick the box FILE NAME EXTENSION Browse to where your PTS file is and click to select it You will need to have exported your point cloud from Recap as a PTS file – though for MeshLab to import it, it needs to be renamed as an. As point clouds typically are very large and data heavy some of the steps here are about reducing complexity. MeshLab does have the function to convert a point cloud into a mesh but be warned – it can take a long time, it will often crash and the results may not be as good as you would like.
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