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Indeed, the extent of the plane must be larger than the cloud's one. In this comparison mode, CloudCompare only considers the triangles that compose the "plane" (the plane here is a triangular mesh, as any other CloudCompare meh). Then it computes the distance from every point to the neare...

The main difference here is scale. In the cloud-to-cloud distance with local modeling, small LS planes are computed locally around each point (in a very small neighborhood, which size is controlled by a hidden parameter). Therefore, they are much more prone to local noise and their orientations may ...

Hello Luca, 1. For standard plugins, there's a 'uiModificationFlags' as output variable (second parameter of 'doAction'). You can set the 'CC_PLUGIN_REFRESH_ENTITY_BROWSER' bit flag to make CC do what you want on plugin completion. uiModificationFlags |= CC_PLUGIN_REFRESH_ENTITY_BROWSER; Look to qPo...

No you're right! By starting from a clean version freshly downloaded from the SVN server, I reproduced the error (with an older version of Qt). I don't know yet how I managed to get a working version until know, but for the moment I remove the 'Multi-thread' support in debug mode (it works fine in r...

Ok, it's available in the last version (02/14/2012).

Great work! As soon as you tell me, I'll add the plugin to the main trunk (or even better, I'll let yourself push it in with a personalized account - so you'll be able to do some maintenance ;). It will be also easier for me to do minor corrections (if necessary). For CMake, let's wait a little bit ...

Indeed, this is still in the "TODO" list. It shouldn't be very hard to do, the only thing that will need some time is to define precisely what should be handled by this new format (clouds and/or meshes? options such as points size, even maybe the camera settings? etc.). There will be two v...

Hello, LAS file is typically the example of what shouldn't be done in CC ;). It's quite a hassle to compile liblas (because of the boost dependency mainly) and we should definitely have opted for a purely plugin-based solution at that time (instead of putting it directly in the main CC executable as...

Hi, the manuscript of my PhD (in french) is here: http://pastel.paristech.org/bib/archive/00001745 . There's an article in english that gives a good insight of what CloudCompare can do (and how): http://www.danielgm.net/phd/isprs_laserscanning_2005_dgm.pdf . And to answer your question: CloudCompare...

Indeed the plugin seems to be the best solution. I have a few remarks: - plugins in CC are totally independent. By design, they can't have any influence on the application. So for instance a plugin can't change the behavior of the file chooser. However, a plugin can spawn its own file loading dialog...