Data Editing

We provide functions to edit the scan data when you pause scanning or after you generate point clouds.

Icon	Function	Instruction
	Perspective / Orthographic View	● Perspective projection: the edge of the object is big when near and small when far. ● Orthographic projection: the distance to each edge of the object is equal.
	Multi View	There are 6 different view angles for you to choose.
	Create Cutting Plane	Create a plane to do quick cut, check below for detail.
	Rectangular	Click and hold LMB to drag to select / deselect an area of the data.
	Polygon	Click LMB one-by-one to select / deselect an area of the data.
	Lasso	Click and hold LMB to drag to select / deselect an area of the data.
	Straight Line	Drag to create a line to select / deselect an area of the data.
	Brush	Use brush to select / deselect an area of the data.
	Select All	Select all of the data.
	Unselect	Cancel all the selections.
	Connected Domain	Click the button after select data, all connected region to the selected data will be picked.
	Revert	Revert the selection.
	Delete	Click the button or DELETE on the keyboard to delete selected data.
	Undo	Click the button to undo the most recently operations.
	Cancel	Undo all edit, and exit edit mode.
	Apply	Click the button or space bar to apply the edit, and exit edit mode.

Note

• press Shift + LMB to select the area.

• press Ctrl + LMB to deselect the area.

Cutting Plane

Cutting plane is very useful when a base needs to be removed during scanning.

After setting cutting plane, there will be no more data scanned below the cutting plane.

Create cutting plane

Two methods to create a cutting plane:

Method	Instruction
Fitting Point Clouds	Press Shift + LMB to select data, then click Create Plane. The cutting plane will be created by point cloud fitting. The direction of the plane will be calculated by the software according to the direction of point cloud.
Creating Straight Line	Press Shift + LMB to draw a line, and generate the cutting plane according to the line.

Set cutting plane

Method	Instruction
Rotation axis	Cutting plane can be rotated around the axis by dragging the small ball.
Move cutting plane	Move the cutting plane by operating the active bar, editing the text box or dragging the arrow.
Delete selected data	Check the box and data in the reverse direction will be shown in red. The red data will be deleted by clicking Apply.
Invert	Invert the normal direction of the cutting plane.
Delete plane	Delete the created cutting plane.