Clip Point Clouds

Clip tools allow you to crop a specified area from a cloud or several clouds.

You can specify an area in any viewport with any view orientation. If the model space is divided into several viewports, then it is necessary to indicate in which viewport the result of the operation will be displayed.

The work of clip commands changes only the cloud display in the target viewport. No changes occur to the object cloud itself. The cloud display in other viewports remains the same.

A rectangle or polygon that defines the clipping boundary is specified in the viewport plane. The cloud is cropped perpendicular to the viewport plane in the direction of view. Cloud cropping can be done in one viewport (source), with the result displayed in another viewport (target) specified by the user. When the crop result is displayed in the target viewport, it will be set to the same view that was in the source viewport when the crop operation was performed.

It is possible to carry out several successive cloud clips, including in combination with cloud sections. The sequence of clips in a particular viewport can be undone, either sequentially or entirely. Clips are undone with special commands Undo Clip to undo last clip and Reset Clip to undo all clips, which are not associated with the standard Undo command.