Collection of tools to work with loaded dataset or to split large file to tiles and load them.

Modal tool to place 3D Cursor on closest point in cloud under mouse cursor. GPU accelerated. Sets only 3D Cursor location.

3D Cursor is an overlay, it is drawn by Blender behind points so it may not be visible depending on points density, this is known issue.

Measurements are created with modal tools and can be stored in blend file, edited, converted to mesh or copied to clipboard. Engine that draws measurements is independent on loaded tileset so stored measurements can be draw on screen without loaded point data.

To measure click desired tool type button and then click points in viewport to add new vertices. To store measurement click button or with SPACE key in tool. New item will be added to list. Each measurement can be split to "elements", this is necessary for measurements that need more vertices to define, those are Distance, Angle and Area (Point and Height supports this as well, but it won't make any difference on screen). With N key you will start new element while already defined is kept and when measurement is stored, all elements are written to measurement item.

Measurement list item can be renamed clicking item label, edited with button, hidden with , measurement texts hidden with , on screen values switched between container local space or global space with / and color can be set with last color picker button in row.

Drawing of stored measurements on screen is controlled with Draw and Erase buttons under the list. Measurement that is being edited with modal tool is always drawn in viewport.

Point Distance and Vertex Distance values controls distance in pixels around mouse cursor to be considered when selecting point or existing measurement vertex. Best leave at default values because can cause worse performance if set too high, increase only when you have trouble selecting points or vertices.

There are several other options and operators under menu.

• Use Random Colors - each new measurement will have random color instead of default when enabled
• Use Shift/Scale - values on screen will use values with shift/scale unapplied, this will work only if set in global space
• Update To Current Shift/Scale - operator to update measurements if you change shift/scale of whole tileset after measurement is stored
• Frame Selected - move selected item vertices to view
• Merge By Type - will merge all items of same type to one item
• Selected To Clipboard - will copy values you see on screen from selected measurements to clipboard
• Selected To Mesh - will add new mesh object with vertices (and edges or polygons, depends on type) from selected measurement item
• Clear Stored Measurements - remove all stored

• TileSet To Standard PCV - merge all points visible and make new PCV instance loaded with the points
• Tiles To PCV Instances - make PCV instance for each tile and link tile source file to it, if some tiles are selected in list, only selected will be processed
• Tiles To Blender Pointclouds - convert all tiles to Blender Pointcloud data to be renderable, if some tiles are selected in list, only selected will be processed

Split single file to tile files, all points from source file will be loaded, then split and pieces saved to Output directory, requires enough system memory to fit all data.

When file is selected, it's header is read (if file format supports it) and point count and overall dimensions are displayed in panel to help deciding the rest of options. File can be split by dimensions or by max point count per file. Split by dimensions allows cube (same length in all dimensions) or cuboid (x, y, z lengths can be defined) shapes per cell. Pro Tip: for "2D" split, use cuboid shape and set Z to very large value outside of dataset dimensions, e.g. 100000.

Output format can only be LAS/LAZ/E57, LAZ is preferable because of compression and saving disk space. If source file is LAS/LAZ and output is also LAS/LAZ, original file header is reused, if not LAS 1.2 point format 3 is used.

After splitting, tiles will be automatically loaded (if is enabled) and instance settings set as per preferences (if is enabled).

Preset menu in panel header will save your current Split settings into a preset.

If you start Blender from command line you can observe processing progress in terminal.

Split single file to tile files, source file will be read in chunks, each chunk split and its points appended to initially blank files in output directory, works only with LAS/LAZ files because they allow chunked reading and writing.

Chunked read/write allows to process very large files that cannot be loaded to memory and can be faster then All At Once split type, but it is limited to maximum number of files written. OS have a maximum of concurrently opened files (typically 256), if this is exceeded, Python will fail to open (create) a new file and processing will not finish. This is set with Max Files Safeguard, default value of 100 should be safe, but decrease if you run into problems specific to your system.

After splitting, tiles will be automatically loaded (if is enabled) and instance settings set as per preferences (if is enabled).

Preset menu in panel header will save your current Split settings into a preset.

If you start Blender from command line you can observe processing progress in terminal.

Split all LAS/LAZ/E57 files in Input Directory, each file is processed with active Split settings and files are written to Output Directory.

After splitting, tiles will be automatically loaded (if is enabled) and instance settings set as per preferences (if is enabled).

If you start Blender from command line you can observe processing progress in terminal.