RE: How to best fit a Solid shape to a point cloud?
Hi David,
There are some tools like fit Cylinder, fit Plane, ... that you can use for this in Descartes but the best forum to post this kind of questions is Reality modeling Forum.
Review these wikis
http://communities.bentley.com/products/3d_imaging_and_point_cloud_software…
Fit Cylinder - One Click Mode
The Fit Cylinder functionality now has a new mode which works allows user to extract cylinder by only clicking a point of the point cloud modeling the cylinder to extract.
The One Click Mode works by following the points pertaining to the cylinder from…