Align Point Clouds Without Control Points in Connect
Overview
This article explains how to align point clouds without control points in Connect.
Procedure
- To manually align point clouds in Connect 2.2 you need to use the Manual Alignment feature.This works in a similar way to the merge tool in Hub, however, you can merge more than two point clouds in Connect.
- A reference cloud can be assigned during the process and other scans can be translated and rotated to match against this.
- When the process is run, a best fit algorithm is used to improve the accuracy of the alignment.
- At the beginning of this workflow, you can decide if you want to export individual aligned clouds or a single merged point cloud.