How to Measure the Surface Area of a Point Cloud

In this video we walk you through how to measure the surface area of a portion of a point cloud using CloudCompare and Meshlab.
Overview of Steps:
1. Segment out target section of point cloud
2. Create mesh from 2D Polygon (facet) or Poisson Recon
3. Computer surface area using Meshlab
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Download MeshLab at www.meshlab.net/
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[@stijnjanssen2465]

Nice tutorial! Great work.

[@dominostream]

Hello. After Ctrl+S (2:20) it is not possible to save as "obj" (CloudCompare v2.12.4). I saved as another kind of mesh - "ply", but after importing to Meshlab it is still point cloud (instead of 3d shape).
Do I need to do some extra operation on my point cloud to enable CloudCompare to save as a shape ("obj" type)?

[@prasadnemade6979]

hello, how do we export .obj file by default .bin is getting exported after saving from cloudcompare

[@EveryPoint]

You should have a file type to select from when exporting files.

[@happyandhealthy888]

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