Within Pointools cloud editing features, is it possible to somehow "reference", in an external boundary that could be used to clip, or extract the pointclouds within that predefined boundary/ polygon?
For example, if we have numerous point cloud tiles received from a contractor that cover a railway corridor, we ideally want to be able to create a pointcloud (s), along only a fairly small across-track swathe of the corridor (say, 10m), but obviously the linear distance could be quite large.
From what I can see, manually drawing a polygon to select only those points would be difficult. Ideally, we would like to be able to create a point boundary in Microstation (offset track centreline for example to create polygon), and use within Pointools as a selection boundary prior to processing etc.
Is there a way of doing something along these lines within Pointools? I appreciate it could be worked backwards- ie ref in the point clouds into Mstn, but we seem to struggle with point cloud manipulation within Mstn, whereas the point cloud engine within Pointools seems much quicker.