Filter Points to Selected Surfaces

This command offers a means to create a new set of points or point clouds (if point clouds are selected) based on the proximity of the points to a selection of surfaces.

There are 3 menu commands for this control:

  1. Filter Points to Selected Surfaces - offers selection of list of surfaces for the filtering process

  2. Filter Points to Selected Faces - offers a more precise selection from CAD surfaces, only including the selected surface faces.

  3. Filter Points to All Faces - offers a more generic option that does not prompt for surface selection but uses all surfaces in the job file automatically.

A selection of useful controls are available which include:

Face Offsets:

Additional True Position Point Detection:

Output Limits

Output Grouping controlling both point and cloud output.

Cloud Thinning Options

When combined with the user of cloud based geometry relationships this command makes it very easy to extract features from a cloud using the available CAD to filter the cloud.