Clip by Rectangle
Functional Overview
Clip by rectangle tool extracts the point cloud data within user-defined rectangular(s), and the extracted points can be saved in one or multiple files.
Usage
Click Data Management > Clip > Clip by Rectangle
Parameters Settings
- Input Point cloud data: Input one or more point cloud data files. File format: *.LiData.
- Center Point: Determine the rectangular box according to a selected point and area width.
- Two Points: Determine a rectangular box according to two selected points.
Select Region: After clicking this button, users will be able to draw rectangle in the current window. If a single point is selected, click to select a position in the view with the mouse, and the rectangle box information can be determined and displayed according to the area width parameter. If two points are selected, after clicking to select a position in the view with the mouse, drag the mouse to display the real-time rectangle box. Double click the mouse to end the rectangle selection, and the position information of the rectangle box will be displayed in the function interface.- Y Maximum (m): Enter the maximum Y coordinate of the rectangle.
- Y Minimum (m): Enter the minimum Y coordinate of the rectangle.
- X Minimum (m): Enter the minimum X coordinate of the rectangle.
- X Maximum (m): Enter the maximum X coordinate of the rectangle.
- Ignore Different Additional Attributes: When inputs are several point cloud files, and this option is checked, only the same additional attribute tables can be merged, and the mergence of different point cloud files cannot be done.
- Generate a File: Extract all the point cloud data within the rectangle to a file.
- Generate Multiple Files: Extract the point cloud data within each rectangle and save them to one file. The file is named by the rectangle's lower left corner coordinate and the rectangle's width and height by default.
: Click this button to add the entered rectangle range to the processing list. Perform the same operation to add multiple clipping regions.
: Click this button to load external data files. The file format refers to the Clip Range File Format in the appendix.
: Click this button to remove the selected row(s) in the processing list.- Output path: The path of the clipped output file after the function is executed.