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Point Cloud Viewer Tools

Mini articles for point cloud viewer tools: orbit, distance, area, height, verticality, notes, fix tools, rendering, color, and EDL.

Updated 2026-05-0618 minreviewers, engineers

3D Tools

Pan or orbit navigates the scene without placing measurement points. It is the default mode for inspection and framing.

Measure distance picks two 3D points and reports true Euclidean distance in scene units.

Measure area builds a polygon from picked 3D points and computes area in the fitted plane.

Measure height reports vertical difference between two points, which is safer than estimating height from screen position.

Check verticality compares a base and top point against gravity to report drift, lean angle, and direction.

Sticky note anchors a finding to a picked 3D point.

Fix tools fit missing or noisy telecom geometry: tower member, sector panel, and dish patch corrections.

View Controls

The 3D viewer includes home view, top view, bottom view, pitch lock, yaw lock, turntable mode, rotate left, rotate right, zoom in, and zoom out. These controls help reviewers maintain a stable inspection frame in a dense point cloud.

Expert Rendering Controls

Rendering controls change how the cloud is drawn. They do not change the source evidence, but they strongly affect what the reviewer can see. Use them to reveal geometry, depth, intensity variation, or classification detail.

Point budget
Maximum points rendered per frame. Higher detail costs GPU performance.
Min node pixel size
Controls level-of-detail culling. Higher values render fewer distant nodes.
Point size and shape
Affects visibility of sparse or dense point sets.
Color mode
Auto, RGB, intensity, elevation, or classification color mapping.
Gamma, contrast, brightness
Fine-tunes RGB or intensity display for visual review.
Eye-Dome Lighting
Depth enhancement that emphasizes edges and surfaces in point clouds.

Fix Mode

Fix mode is for controlled geometric corrections where source data is missing, sparse, or noisy. The reviewer picks points and the system fits a line member, sector panel, or dish patch. Corrections should be treated as derived review geometry with confidence, not as raw capture data.

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