Mesh from Clouds

Both course and fine general meshes can be built from any point cloud or combination of point clouds. It requires a instrument association but does not require a scan stripe cloud as an input. To built a general mesh either right-click on a cloud directly or use the command Mesh from Clouds in the Build from Clouds section of the Clouds and Surfaces tab. This will open the mesh settings dialog.

General Meshes only offer 2 parameters:

The Reverse Mesh Normals button can be used to reverse the normal of a mesh for accurate probe offset compensation. However, it should be noted that breaks in the mesh can cause local segment reversals. The Extended Parameter Mesh is much more resistant to these because it uses the scan line probing vectors.

For basic meshing of point data the General Mesh can also be used. For example if you wish to build a 2D mesh built from all of the measured points as the vetex points for the mesh you can do so by entering 0 in both the mesh parameters.