Creating Polylines on Clouds

You can create discrete polylines by picking points on cloud of points or meshes.Use to create discrete polylines by picking points on cloud of points or meshes.

  1. From the Wireframe Create section of the action bar, click Create Polylines on Clouds .
  2. Select a support (cloud of points or mesh).
    This first pick selects the support and defines the first point of the discrete polyline.
  3. Pick points on the support to create the scan.

    • Undo and Redo are available for each pick.
    • One single discrete polyline can be created over several supports.
    • When the support is a mesh, selection priority is given to the vertices of the triangles, then to their edges. This ensures that the point is created respectively on a vertex or an edge, and eases the creation of scans lying on the mesh.

  4. For an interactive display, press Ctrl wile moving the pointer on the support.
  5. Double-click to exit.
    A Scan_on_Cloud.x element is created.