Assembling objects in CloudCompare

[Guitar Quackery]

Hello all,

I just started using CloudCompare to view 3D scans of guitars and guitar parts.

I was hoping to be able to import separate guitar parts into a project and then move and rotate each guitar part separately so that I can assemble a guitar in 3D space.

Can this be done in CloudCompare?

Thanks.

[Guitar Quackery]

Here is a screen shot of what I am trying to do.

There is a point could scan of a guitar and a scan of the guitar bridge (in the yellow box).

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Is it possible to move the bridge in the correct place on the guitar?

Thanks.

[daniel]

Well, yes, but mostly manually. Use the 'Edit > Translate/rotate' tool.

See https://www.cloudcompare.org/doc/wiki/i ... ation_Tool

I don't think registration/alignement tools will be very useful (apart maybe for the point pair picking tool... see https://www.cloudcompare.org/doc/wiki/i ... gistration)

[Guitar Quackery]

Thank you very much. This is in fact very helpful.

[Zizelind]

Yeah, I’ve done something similar with CloudCompare when working on scanned mechanical parts. You can definitely move and rotate separate pieces, but it’s a bit clunky. I had to import each part individually, then use the Translate/Rotate tool (it’s that little cube with arrows) to position everything. Just make sure you're selecting the right part in the DB Tree before adjusting it, took me a few tries to get used to that. It’s not the smoothest workflow, but it gets the job done.