Using Fast Alignment

Fast Alignment quickly repositions a cloud of points or a mesh with respect to reference elements.

Fast Alignment is best used when there is a total correspondence between the object to align and the reference object. It also supports partial correspondence, provided the user activates portions of the object to align and of the reference corresponding to the overlapping areas.

  1. Select the Cloud to Align (this is the cloud to reposition).
  2. Select the References.

    A reference can be a surface, a cloud of points, a mesh, or a set of GSD points.

  3. Optional: Use Multi-selection and Hide/Show .
  4. Optional: Activate areas (Activate ) in the cloud to align and the references.
  5. Select With Pre-Alignment if the object to align is far and not aligned at all with the reference object.
    Fast Alignment performs a prepositioning based on bounding boxes before the finalization step.
  6. Click Partial Deviation Analysis to confirm the result of the fast alignment on the points subset taken into account for the computation.
    Partial Deviation Analysis provides a first validation of the alignment, with better performances.
  7. Select With Frozen Axis to freeze a direction that you know is already good.
    1. From the list, select the direction to freeze.
  8. Decide to keep the initial cloud or not.
  9. Click Apply.
  10. Click More to display the Statistics.