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Hej,

During the last weeks, I worked a lot with cloud compare and was amazed by all the functioned I could well use for my research, so thank you for such a great program!

Now I have an issue and hope you can help me find a solution: Is there a way to export/save a vector graphic from CloudCompare?

I computed the cloud-to-mesh-distance and now I want to save the image of the shown scalar field as vector graphic. If I save the marked scalar field as .dxf , the file goes to big (1,03GB) and leads to a crash either during the saving process in cloud compare or during the opening process in another program. Therefore I was unable to check if the generated .dxf file shows what I want to export.

Is there any way to export the graphic data or to save the image shown in the 3D view as vector graphic?

Thank you very much for your time and ideas :)
Cheers,
Lucy

Hi,

I'm afraid there's no mean to do this yet. Point clouds are so big that DXF and other vector formats are not really suited for this...

Have you tried to subsample your cloud first?

Hi Daniel,

First, thank you for your fast reply; and sorry for my late response.
I want to export the scalar field. I want to have a graphic that shows where in the comparison of two meshes the most differences occur. The colored scalar field shows that pretty good, and I would be glad to have graphic of this. A screenshot is not that good in quality; therefore I hoped to find a way to export it as vector graphic.

For subsampling, what do I have to do for that, and will I be able to export a graphic format then?

Thank you again for your time and this awesome program :)

Cheers
Lucy

If you have a mesh you won't be able to 'subsample' it. And anyway if your aim is to get a nicer look subsampling is not such a good idea ;)

Have you tried the 'Display > Render to file' method? (http://www.cloudcompare.org/doc/wiki/in ... er_to_File). It has a 'Zoom' parameter that allows you to capture the screen with a much higher resolution. The maximum depends on your graphic card capabilities, but you can generally multiply the screen resolution by at least 4 without any problem.

Hi Daniel,

thank you very much fo this fast reply, and yes it's exactly what helped me and what I needed,
this "render to file" with high zoom gives me a perfect image.

Thank you so much, the program is awesome and your support even better :D

Have nice week!

Cheers
Lucy