Point Cloud Display Properties
Auxiliary Cloud Thinning Factor
In addition to the global cloud thinning controls each individual cloud can have its own thinning factor set independently through its properties. This control decreases the total number of points displayed at any time. This allows clouds of very different densities to be equalized for display purposes.
Cloud Bounding Box
In order to more readily visualize the extents of a cloud a bounding box can be displayed by checking the option in the cloud properties dialog. This option provides the minimum volume box that contains all the points in the cloud. This box can be quite helpful in visualizing a cloud when you have less points displayed or in detecting outliers in a cloud.
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Axis Aligned Box. This option defines a box that is oriented with the World coordinate system in job file. Its the default be- cause it and requires little initial computation.
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Minimum Orientation Box. This box defines the minimum volume necessary to contain the data.
Directional View Control
Scan stripe clouds have an additional directional display control that can be enabled or disabled. This mode allow view of cloud points only when aligned within 60 degree of the probing direction. This hides cloud points measured on the backside of a part making view of front side coverage much easier.
This mode can be enabled for an individual point cloud through its Right-click menu. It can also be set for all clouds, or a selection of clouds, through the Scan Stripe Cloud category right-click menu.
When enabled the cloud will have a (Direction) identification appended to the cloud name:
Boundary Points
Boundary Points are an additional cloud display option within a cloud’s properties menu. This display mode includes only specific cloud points that define breaks in the scan line. For example a scan line that crosses a hole will be filtered to include only the two points on either side of the hole, where data was last measured. These boundary points can be used for feature extraction or edge detection. These can be viewed individually or in addition to the real-time mesh display.
Within the right-click menu for a Scan Stripe cloud is an option to Generate Boundary Points Cloud. This option will build a new cloud from the original.