From the course: Learning FARO PointSense Building
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Fit Circle - PointSense Building Tutorial
From the course: Learning FARO PointSense Building
Fit Circle
- [Instructor] Fitting circles to the point cloud works the same way as the fit outline plan tool. But in this case, we select three points on the point cloud arc, and then PointSense will then analyze the points and fit the circle as closely as possible to the point cloud slice. Now I've already created the slice for us, so let's turn off all points, and we're going to keep the circle slice. We're going to pick the point cloud just the activate the AutoCAD point cloud menu, change our colors to white, object color, our point size to one, and our transparency. So let's go ahead and go to PointSense Building, and we're going to move our slice down a little bit until we can see the circular mats on the floor. Now if we want to locate these as a point of interest, we could come to our modeling, and we want to do the draw circle using three points. So all we have to do is pick a point on the, one, on the arc, anywhere, point two, and point three, and it's going to fit that circle, best…
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