I am in receipt of a set of XYZ point cloud files that I need to register together somehow. There is some overlapping data but my primary issue is that they are not level, some are off by as much as 30 degrees. Is there a way to set two points and tell the software that this is the Y axis? I have a wall which I will use to align to.
I know it can be done in Cyclone but I believe the scan needs to have normals, which this dataset doesn't. I currently have at my disposal Leica Cyclone 6, Faro Scene 5 and Topcon ScanMaster 2.7. If none of these, is there any other software that can help?
Many thanks,
Setting the Y axis on an unlevelled point cloud
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Re: Setting the Y axis on an unlevelled point cloud
Tom,
Can you perhaps ask whoever is supplying the point cloud for a different format, that would maintain the normals information, like ptx, zfs etc?
Can you perhaps ask whoever is supplying the point cloud for a different format, that would maintain the normals information, like ptx, zfs etc?
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Re: Setting the Y axis on an unlevelled point cloud
Unfortunately, because the data comes from a marine sonar environment the data does not have this information. Is there a way to create a 'scan position' at 0,0,0?
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Re: Setting the Y axis on an unlevelled point cloud
I think I have worked it out, there is the 'Set From Points' and just use three points!