I really don’t want to have to turn the point cloud into a mesh or surface, I just want to see the details of the scan so that I can made a 2D drawing of the perimeters I need from it. I need to be able to do this if the floor is not flat, or the equivalent on a vertical multi curved surface. For example, if someone scanned the floor of a room, I want to be able to create an outline of a rug on the middle of the floor as accurately as possible. What I need to be able to do is extract 2d data from the point cloud. It appears that I can not directly draw on a point cloud. I am able to bring in a sample point cloud into Rhino 5 using the dot product rhino plugin, but I’m really not sure how to work with it. The device we are using generates a point cloud. We received our first new LADAR scanner today, and will be doing a scan tomorrow. The company I work for is considering getting into LADAR scanning to replace previous scanning.
