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Thanks for the quick reply, daniel. Sounds like it's pretty much what I feared. I'll try to find some optimizations on the photogrammetry side, at least aligning the point cloud correctly "up" to start.

I'm trying to register a point cloud generated via photogrammetry (many points somewhat randomly placed on surfaces) with a CAD model mesh reference (the opposite of that). I can of course perform an alignment by manually choosing four pairs of points and that works well, but I'm trying to get this ...