TUTORIAL: CloudCompare Translate Rotate | Click 3D Ep.57 | 3D Forensics | CSI

[@billisenberger7112]

Another good CloudCompare tutorial! 👍. I just discovered my 3Dconnexion mouse works with CloudCompare.

[@jethro-wilkinson]

That's a super helpful video. It's pronounced PUR-geot not PEW-geot though. That drove me crazy.

[@cmoons256]

thanks for reiminding me there is the "right button" to click. I have been struggling unable to translate . thank you

[@user-ee6jj9qn9t]

simple and clear thanks!

[@sierraecho884]

The music in the intro is lot better, the last one was super loud. But still you should probably cut it a little short and a little quieter in my opinion anyways.

[@3Dforensics]

Will try to reduce the volume a bit. Thanks.

[@sierraecho884]

@@3Dforensics No, thank you.

[@3Dforensics]

Not quite ready to cut the intro just yet, but will consider in the future.

[@skudwoofer]

I am working with scan data in Solidworks. The company that provided onsite scan data did not do a very good job of placing the point cloud on the ground plane nor did they do a very good job orienting it such that it was centered on the origin in a reasonable fashion. I have downloaded Mesh Lab, Mesh Mixer and Cloud Compare all in an effort to manipulate the point cloud data such that I can get the data "planer" in solidworks for measurement purposes. Mesh Mixer (autodesk) won't read the ASCII files I was given and seems to be mainly used for STL mesh work. I spent a few hours in Mesh Lab which seems to be very powerful, but the documentation is pathetic. I was able to generate a number of iterative versions of STL data with native and reduced face counts, but the STL data is a much larger file size than the point cloud data in my CAD package. Your tutorial is either the only one or one of a very few tutorials that show how to both orient and move the point cloud data such that I can define a point in the cloud and move the point cloud to that location, correctly oriented.
Thank you!!!! Skudwoofer.

[@alexkzy5210]

Now how do we save this transformed point cloud?

[@3Dforensics]

In the latest version of CloudCompare you just need to select which point cloud you want from your Database Tree and then hit the save button (single floppy disk icon). In case you want to save the whole project, then hit the double floppy disk icon.

[@r.in.shibuya]

All very obvious.. What isn't obvious was not covered, rotation inputs do no work as expected. Never seen any 3D program that does not accept a rotational degree along an axis. There is only one degree input box.

[@3Dforensics]

Go to the tab with Euler Angles and you can input the degrees of rotation around each axis.