NUBIGON offers versatile ways to create sections from point clouds and export them to your desired third-party application.
Define your plane
- Launch the cross-section window from the sidebar.
- Activate the Plane checkbox and specify your plane definition:
- interactively in the viewport with Set plane,
- copy it from a section in the scene,
- copy it from a plane in the scene,
- or define the angles and origin parametrically.
Create section
- Activate the Section checkbox.
- NUBIGON will preview points within the Tolerance to the plane. You should consider increasing this parameter when working with sparse point clouds. Creating a section projects these points onto the plane and generates a 2D point cloud.
- You can create up to 50 additional sections on either side of the main section with Add more. In this case, the Interval determines the distance between these sections.
- Type a name, and finally press Create.
To create sections with more points, temporarily increase GPU cache in Preferences > Viewport Rendering.Export section
- To export a section as a point cloud file, select it in the Object List and press File > Export > Export Point Cloud
- To export it as a DWG or DXF file, select it and go to File > Export > Export CAD. Exporting a section in the same coordinate system as the corresponding point cloud and more are explained here.
Learn about our drawing and fitting tools to semi-automatically vectorize point cloud sections.