B28.

Area

Tools for area measurement

Here you will learn how to use Reconstructors

tools for measuring the area of portions of

surfaces, defined by point clouds or by meshes.

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Tools for area measurement

Reconstructor distinguishes the following cases:

1. Measure the area of a portion of a mesh, selected with the 2D selection tools
2. Measure the area of a portion of a point cloud, selected with polyline and plane 3. Measure the area of a portion of point clouds, selected with the 2D selection tools 4. Measure the area of a mesh (quickly done with right-click on a mesh item, then Meshing tools -> Compute area)

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To choose the operation youre interested in:

Press the Area button

Case 1. Area of mesh portion

Case 3. Area of cloud portion, selected with 2D tools

Case 2. Area of cloud portion,

selected with 3D polyline

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1. Area of mesh portion

1. The recipe window area of mesh portion appears 2. Drag in it the mesh item you want to select a portion from 3. Use the selection tools to select a portion of the mesh 4. Press the Area button in the recipe window 5. A sub-mesh is calculated out of your selection, and its area is presented to you in a report dialog.

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2. Area of cloud portion, selected with 3D polyline

By clicking this option, the process for selecting points with a polyline starts. This is already explained in the module B13 - Selection tools, from slide 9 on.

The recipe window for selecting points with polyline appears

When the selection is over, you can select Yes in the dialog below:

The selection you have made is then meshed with the Delaunay 2.5D algorithm (see
module B27), and the area of the resulting mesh is reported

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3. Area of cloud portion, selected with 2D tools

1. The recipe window area of sampled cloud appears 2. Use the selection tools to select a portion of the point clouds you are viewing 3. Press the Area button in the recipe window 4. A mesh is calculated out of your selection, and

its area is presented to you in a report dialog.

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3. Area of cloud portion, selected with 2D tools

The mesh resulting from the example in the previous slide is shown here.