Filter Points to Selected Surfaces

This command offers a means to create a new set of points or point clouds (if point clouds are selected) based on the proximity of the points to a selection of surfaces.

There are 3 menu commands for this control:

  1. Filter Points to Selected Surfaces - offers selection of list of surfaces for the filtering process

  2. Filter Points to Selected Faces - offers a more precise selection from CAD surfaces, only including the selected surface faces.

  3. Filter Points to All Faces - offers a more generic option that does not prompt for surface selection but uses all surfaces in the job file automatically.

A selection of useful controls are available which include:

Face Offsets section:

Additional True Position Point Detection section:

Output Limits section:

Output Grouping section: Controlling both point and cloud output.

Cloud Thinning Options button

When combined with the user of cloud based geometry relationships this command makes it very easy to extract features from a cloud using the available CAD to filter the cloud.