From the course: Learning FARO PointSense Building
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Use sectioning tools - PointSense Building Tutorial
From the course: Learning FARO PointSense Building
Use sectioning tools
- [Instructor] One of the most powerful features of Pointsense is the sectioning tools. Having the ability to crop out areas of the point cloud makes it so much easier to work in AutoCAD. We can reduce the number of points on the screen which speeds up navigation and also by clipping out the points we don't need, we can isolate the areas we do want to work in and we can see everything much more clearly. So let's make a few sections and practice using the clipping tools. So let's look at our sections panel in our Pointsense building ribbon menu. We're going to start with define a rectangle. Now everything that's inside the rectangle stays, everything outside goes. So let's just practice, we'll just cut a section through the points here and you'll see that we only have the sections that we selected. Now I'm going to do that points by coming up to Previous selection and it brings everything back. Now I'm going to come to front view here and I'm going to use an exclude. So I'm going to…
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