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well maybe it is just a correlation not the actual cause. clouds with images usually not decimated/structured clouds, and they contains all the points. So you quickly increase the point count. for example 1 setup can contain easily 40 million point (600mb-700mb e57). So probably you reach your limit...

I created a quick PR to make this possible so the given command_file would work, if it gets merged as is. https://github.com/CloudCompare/CloudCompare/pull/1967 -NO_TIMESTAMP -AUTO_SAVE OFF -O "cloud_with_sf" -SF_OP 0 DIV MAX -NOT_IN_PLACE -FILTER_SF 0.95 1 -RENAME_ENTITIES "filtered&...

I looked at it yesterday. -FILTER_SF only accept doubles or exactly MIN or MAX string. so computation is not possible. Then i was looking for a workaround but SF_OP does not accept MIN/MAX as values i was trying to do a normalized SF so you can just drop points below a known number. But that is stil...

your $MAX value was not properly converted by your shell, probably because using single quotes, or escaping or because of the brackets. make sure that your command sends proper commands to CC. you could try to send your commands to a file, then load that with -COMMAND_FILE {file} command, that way y...

is it the latest beta? Can you share your cloud? Can you try saving as something else? because las reader/writer were replaced in the 2.13 beta, so maybe we could know the issue is there. Or can you try it with another release 2.12 stable for example?

Is this a cloud with high coordinates?
if yes use a proper global shift during loading.
try the command below:

Tools - > other -> compute geometric features (density number of neighbours)

It won't give distence of closest point, instead it gives a number of points inside a given radius.

I think you answered all of your question.

bounding box correct

number of box = 2^octreeLevel, and each box has the same size. so if you know the bbbeforehand you can calculate the resulting octree box size.

you can calculate point density with given radius. (tools -> other -> calculate geometric features ->point density)
I'd say this is what you are looking for.

What is the whole output?

But i think your issue is with the -SAVE_CLOUDS -FILE
Use only filenames not full path and don't use spaces there.

Or at least try to use double quotes inside that option like below

-SAVE_CLOUDS -FILE "'first file name' 'second file name'"