To Work With Cropping Point Clouds
How to define rectangular, polygonal, or circular areas to crop, and how to invert,
show or hide, or remove cropped areas.
Crop a Rectangular, Polygonal, or Circular Area

- In the drawing area, select the point cloud.
- Select the shape of the area you want to crop.
NOTE:The cropping is created relative to the current view, not the current UCS.
- To specify a rectangular area, click Point Cloud tab
Cropping panel
Create Crop (flyout). Find
- To specify a series of points to define a custom polygon shape, click Point Cloud tab
Cropping panel
Create Crop (flyout). Find
NOTE:Press Enter to close the polygon. - To specify the center point and radius of a circle, click Point Cloud tab
Cropping panel
Create Crop (flyout). Find
- To specify a rectangular area, click Point Cloud tab
- Specify whether to keep the points inside or outside the crop boundary.
Invert a Cropping
After cropping a point cloud, you can change whether to show the points inside the
crop boundary or outside the crop boundary by inverting the crop.
- Select a point cloud with cropped areas.
- Click Point Cloud tab
Cropping panel
Invert. Find

Show or Hide Cropped Areas
- Select a point cloud with cropped areas.
- Click Point Cloud tab
Cropping panel
Show/Hide. Find
Remove Cropped Areas
- Select a point cloud with cropped areas.
- Do one of the following:
- To remove the last cropped area, click Point Cloud tab
Cropping panel
Uncrop Last. Find
- To remove all cropped areas, click Point Cloud tab
Cropping panel
Uncrop All. Find
- To remove the last cropped area, click Point Cloud tab
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