Points Workbench

Introduction
The Points Workbench is intended to give you specific tools for working with point clouds. The workbench is still in development.

A point cloud is a collection of points in 3D space. A point cloud is generally produced by scanning the surface of a solid object. The cloud of points can then be used for many purposes including building a mesh for the object, reconstructing the surfaces and solid volumes, reverse engineering, as well as for visualization and quality inspection of parts.

Tools
All Points Workbench tools can be accessed from the Points menu. Some tools are also available in the Points tools toolbar.


 * Convert to points...: Creates point clouds from shape objects.


 * Structured point cloud: Sorts the points in a point cloud.


 * [[Image:Points_Import.svg|32px]] Import points...: Imports a point cloud from a file.


 * [[Image:Points_Export.svg|32px]] Export points...: Exports a point cloud to a file.


 * [[Image:Points_PolyCut.svg|32px]] Cut point cloud: Cuts points from point clouds.


 * Merge point clouds: Creates a point cloud by combining the points of two or more point clouds.

Limitations
At the moment the workbench has no automatic routines to deal with the imported points, but the user can use Python scripting to programmatically process the data.

See the discussions in the forum:
 * Fläche aus Messwerten (German)
 * Schnitte durch Flächen aus Messwerten (German)
 * Inspecting Point cloud.