Extracting Data from a Cloud of Points

You can extract the visible points from a cloud of points to create a new cloud of points.

This task shows you how to:

Extract Data from a Cloud of Points

You can extract data from a cloud of points.

  1. Right-click a cloud of points and select Properties.
    1. Click the Information tab and note the number of its visible points.
    2. Click Close to exit the Properties dialog box.
  2. Right-click the cloud of points and select Extract Data.
    An Extract (name-of-original_cloud).x element is created with only visible points of the initial cloud.

Extract Data from a Mesh

You can extract data from a mesh.

  1. Select a mesh and verify its number of visible points.
  2. Activate a portion of the mesh and verify its number of visible points.
  3. Right-click the mesh and select Extract Data.
    An Extract (name-of-original_mesh).x element is created with the visible points of the original mesh.