Dual Point-Cloud

The Cloud Data panel consists of three worksheets:

SmCP: the main point-cloud

Normals: A calculation sheet used to generate the mesh triangles normal vectors

RefCloud: the reference point-cloud

When the RefCloud tab is selected, all the generation and deformation activities will operate on the reference point cloud.

The two point-clouds are paired to define a dual point-cloud structure. Setting the Draw Ref field in the main console to a value greater than zero defines the sphere radius representing the points of the Reference Cloud when the Point-Cloud Mesh View is chosen in the ParaCloud Viewer Panel and the Cloud Data panel is set to the SmCP cloud data. When the RefCloud tab is active the Reference Cloud Data is visualized as a wireframe mesh.

The Sphere color represents the relative distance between paired points where red is the longest distance and green is the closest.

Note: to disable the Reference points visualization set the Draw Ref to -1.

• Viewing the Reference Point-Cloud
• Editing the Point String
• Sending Model Data to CAD Software
• Creating Offset Point-Cloud
• Modifying the Point-Cloud with Target Points as Attractors