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CloudCompare is a Free software.Free as in 'Free speech', not as in'free beer'. Developing and maintaining a software is never free (nomagic in this world). If CloudCompare helps you make (or save) a lot of money, then please contributeor donate. P.S.: if you reallycan't, at least send us an email to say thanks ;-) P.P.S.: we are also in need of equipment (scanners, computers, graphiccards, hard drives, etc.) P.P.P.S.: we also like nice datasets! (Manufacturers that are alreadycontributing or supporting us: DotProduct, 2G Robotics, Riegl, Geoslam, Kaarta)

Operation guide of Cloud Compare.（For Japanese UI 'Nekoyama' edition） Adding 3D coordinates and Export of Unfolded drawing. CloudCompare を使った、三次元座標の付与から展開図の出力までを解説した操作ガイド。 ねこやま版日本語メニュー対応。. Opening the two meshes in CloudCompare is shown below, note the two models are in different coordinate systems, see yellow bounding boxes. Since, as the name suggests, CloudCompare is designed to compare two point clouds, as such the meshes need to be represented by points. EVANSVILLE, Ind. — They were hiding in plain sight. A high-resolution 3-D model of three ancient Roman slipper lamps, dating back to the first several centuries of the common era, made clear.

Latest alpha release (2.12.alpha - 03/29/2021)

	CloudCompare 2.12.alpha installer version	CloudCompare 2.12.alpha 7z archiveversion	ccViewer1.40.alpha 7zarchive version
Windows64 bits
Windows64 bits Stereo	NA
MacOS 64 bits	NA
Linux64 bits
Sources	gitrepository: https://github.com/cloudcompare/cloudcompare(for compilation instructions, refer to the BUILD.md file)

Latest stable release (2.11.3 Anoia)

	CloudCompare 2.11.3 installer version	CloudCompare2.11.3 7z archiveversion	ccViewer1.39 7zarchive version
Windows64 bits	(MD5:c43dbac7e2768c7d50b5dd47575a0787)	(MD5:700f38cff87b81f868db8d55e04b446e)	(MD5:b435f71433a06b11b9540c43da912fdb)
Windows64 bits Stereo(support for NVidia 3D Vision and Oculus Rift)	(MD5:53b385a757468e6cd9db1177a1e0d6a2)	(MD5:724ff39a2c8cb44cad5f53fd508de41d)	(MD5:0188dd248093c853da01a0b6cf5269fd)
MacOS 64 bits	Thanksto Andy Maloney, MacOS appsare available here
Linux64 bits	Nowthanks to AlbertoMardegan (and Romain Janvier), there is a 'universal' snap packagefor Linux. On Ubuntu, starting from version 16.04 it's as simple as typing 'snapinstall cloudcompare'. On other distributions, you may need to install snap first (pleaserefer tothe corresponding documentation if necessary). Snaps are published in 3channels: 'stable', 'beta', and'edge'. The 'stable' andthe'beta'channel deliver the latest stable and beta versions of CloudComparewhile 'edge' delivers nightly builds and may eat your laundry. You canswitch at any time between these three channels by launching 'sudo snaprefresh --<channel name>' in your terminal.
Sources	https://github.com/CloudCompare/CloudCompare/releases/tag/v2.11.1(for compilation instructions, refer to the BUILD.md file)

Additional resources

• Peter Kovesi provides various perceptually efficient colour ramps: https://peterkovesi.com/projects/colourmaps . Youcan download them (there's a link in the table under the 'Download'section) and load them in CloudCompare once (via the Color Scale Manager - see the 'Export / Import'section). CloudCompare will then remember them.

• The official and up-to-date documentation is always the wiki

• See the 'CHANGELOG.md'file and the latest releasenotes for a list of the latest features

Last version compatible with old intel / ATI graphic cards (2.6.3 beta)

	CloudCompare 2.6.3 beta installer version	CloudCompare2.6.3 beta 7zarchive version
Windows64 bits

Notes about the archive versions (7zip):

• we now use 7zipand its 7z format (instead of the more standard zip format) as it ismuch more efficient
• simply decompress the files in their default directory andlaunchthe program with CloudCompare.exeor ccViewer.exe
• try not to decompress files onto a previousversion(delete/uninstall it first)
• you may have to manually install the Microsoft Visual C++Redistributable Package 2017
• the qFaro I/O plugin is not available in the archiveversion (you have to usethe installer)

Windows 32 bits

For Windows 32 bits, the last supported versions wereCloudCompare 2.6.2 (installer: and archive: ) andccViewer 1.34 (archive: )

Cloudcompare Github

Plugins

See the list of all plugins: https://www.cloudcompare.org/doc/wiki/index.php?title=Plugins.

Sketchup plugin

This plugin will let you'paste' points selected with the 'Point picking list' tool of CloudCompare in Sketchup. It hasbeen developed by P. Biani (see his website).
Mind thatthedocumentation of this plugin is only in frenchfor now.

CloudCompare

Stable release	2.11.2 / August 30, 2020; 7 months ago[1]
Written in	C++
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	graphics software
License	GPL
Website	www.cloudcompare.org

CloudCompare is a 3D point cloud processing software (such as those obtained with a laser scanner). It can also handle triangular meshes and calibrated images.

Originally created during a collaboration between Telecom ParisTech and the R&D division of EDF, the CloudCompare project began in 2003 with the PhD of Daniel Girardeau-Montaut on Change detection on 3D geometric data.^[2] At that time, its main purpose was to quickly detect changes in 3D high density point clouds acquired with laser scanners in industrial facilities (such as power plants) or building sites.^[3] Afterwards it evolved towards a more general and advanced 3D data processing software. It is now an independent open source project and a free software.

CloudCompare provides a set of basic tools for manually editing and rendering 3D points clouds and triangular meshes. It also offers various advanced processing algorithms, among which methods for performing:

• projections (axis-based, cylinder or a cone unrolling, ...)
• registration (ICP, ...)
• distance computation (cloud-cloud or cloud-mesh the nearest neighbor distance, ...)
• statistics computation (spatial Chi-squared test, ...)
• segmentation (connected components labeling, front propagation based, ...)
• geometric features estimation (density, curvature, roughness, geological plane orientation, ...)

CloudCompare can handle unlimited scalar fields per point cloud on which various dedicated algorithms can be applied (smoothing, gradient evaluation, statistics, etc.). A dynamic color rendering system helps the user to visualize per-point scalar fields in an efficient way. Therefore, CloudCompare can also be used to visualize N-D data.

The user can interactively segment 3D entities (with a 2D polyline drawn on screen), interactively rotate/translate one or more entities relatively to the others, interactively pick single points or couples of points (to get the corresponding segment length) or triplets of points (to get the corresponding angle and plane normal). The latest version also supports the creation of 2D labels attached to points or rectangular areas annotations.

CloudCompare is available on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X platforms, for both 32 and 64 bits architectures. It is developed in C++ with Qt.

Input/Output[edit]

CloudCompare supports input/output in the following formats:

• BIN (CloudCompare own binary format)
• ASCII cloud (one point per line 'X Y Z ...') [wizard]
• PLY cloud or mesh [wizard]
• OBJ mesh(es)
• VTK cloud or mesh
• STL mesh
• E57 (ASTM E2807 standard^[4]) clouds & calibrated images
• LAS and LAZ clouds
• Point Cloud Library PCD files
• FBX mesh
• SHP files
• OFF mesh (Geomview)
• PTX cloud (Leica)
• FLS/FWS cloud(s) (Faro)
• DP cloud(s) (DotProduct)
• RDB / RDBX / RDS cloud(s) (Riegl)
• PSZ projects (Photoscan)
• Various other polyline formats

Moreover, thanks to a collaboration with Pr. Irwin Scollar (creator of AirPhoto SE, a program for the geometric rectification of aerial images & orthophotos from multiple images), CloudCompare can also import Snavely's Bundler SfM software output file (.out) to generate orthorectified images (directly as image files or as 2D point clouds) and an approximated DTM (based on Bundler key-points) colored with images data.

Cloudcompare Github

CloudCompare can also import various other formats: AvevaPDMS '.mac' scripts (supported primitives: cylinder, plane, cone, torus, dish, box, snout and profile extrusion), SOI (from old Mensi Soisic scanners), PN, PV, POV, ICM, etc. Eventually, CloudCompare can also export Maya ASCII files (MA).

Plugins[edit]

A plugin mechanism enables further extension of CloudCompare capabilities. Two kinds of plugins are available:

• standard plugins for algorithms coming either from the academic world (ShadeVis,^[5] HPR,^[6] Poisson reconstruction,^[7] boolean operations on meshes,^[8] etc.) or from external libraries (PCL) or others (e.g. generation of animations with qAnimation)
• OpenGL plugins for advanced shaders (EyeDome Lighting,^[9]SSAO, etc.)

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^CloudCompare v2.11.0 (Omnia) release
2. ^Détection de changement sur des données géométriques tridimensionnelles, D. Girardeau-Montaut, PhD manuscript (french), 2006 - available on Pastel
3. ^Change Detection on Points Cloud Data acquired with a Ground Laser Scanner, D. Girardeau-Montaut, M. Roux, R. Marc & G. Thibault, ISPRS Workshop Laser Scanning 2005, Enschede, the Netherlands, September 12–14, 2005
4. ^The ASTM E57 File Format for 3D Imaging Data Exchange, Daniel Huber, Proceedings of the SPIE Vol. 7864A, Electronics Imaging Science and Technology Conference (IS&T), 3D Imaging Metrology, January, 2011
5. ^ShadeVis an open source tool for computing ambient occlusion
6. ^Direct Visibility of Point Sets, Sagi KatzArchived 2012-06-06 at the Wayback Machine, Ayellet Tal, and Ronen Basri, SIGGRAPH 2007, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 26, Issue 3, August 2007
7. ^Poisson Surface Reconstruction, M. Kazhdan, M. Bolitho, and H. Hoppe, Symposium on Geometry Processing, June 2006, pages 61--70
8. ^Cork Boolean/CSG library, Gilbert Bernstein, Stanford
9. ^Eye-Dome Lighting: a non-photorealistic shading technique, Kitware/The Source

External links[edit]

• Airphoto SE on the Bonn Archaeological Software Package project page
• Bundler project page
• OpenKinect project page
• libLAS project page
• libE57 project page