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I was using CloudCompare for Mac, but I also have Windows PC, so I tried it on the PC, and now I see that the FBX option is there. I did a quick test of Poisson Reconstruction and the file was much too soft and lacking in detail compared with the Mac, but I will try again when I have time to experim...

Someone on the 3D Scanning forum on Facebook, where I was looking for suggestions on how to approach this, wondered if Cloud Compare could add saving extended .obj with vertex coloring, which he said Zbrush can save and Xnormal can load. Also, I don't see .fbx among the saving options on Cloud Compa...

Thanks for the tips. I tried just working on a small segment of the file. With just that small piece, I realized that when I ran the Compute Normals that the texture projection was on the bottom instead of the top of the landscape, so I tried the invert normals function, which fixed that so the colo...

Thanks for the quick reply. So for the computing of Normals, do I set it to Plane and the "use octree" to "Auto"? Those were the defaults. When I apply the Poisson Surface Reconstruction plugin, It closes up the front of the landscape with a big rounded surface, and drastically r...

I am new to CloudCompare. From looking around online, it looks as if CloudCompare could be used to translate a .las LIDAR scan of a large landscape form to a mesh that is editable in 3D editing software. I haven't found a direct way to do it though. An OBJ file is ideal, and I'd like to keep the col...