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v3.9.2 (Asher) - 12/22/2024

ACloudViewer 3.9.2 Release Notes

We are excited to present ACloudViewer 3.9.2!

We welcome you to the 3.9.2 beta release of ACloudViewer. This release is full of exciting new features with a strong emphasis in real-time pipelines, but also full of bug fixes and usability improvements. The big highlights of this release are as follows:

  • New features:

    • New menu entry: Save project

      • File > Save project (or CTRL+SHIFT+S)
      • Saves all entities in the DB as a bin file

    • Tools > Fit > circle
      - fits a 2D circle on a 3D point cloud (thanks to https://github.com/truebelief)
      - works also on cylinders

      • CI support (continuous integration)
        • now using Github action CI
        • platform (Macos, Windows, Linux)
        • build (debug, release)
        • 32/64 bits

  • New plugins

    • New unified plugin to load LAS files (by Thomas Montaigu)

      • based on LASzip
      • should work on all platforms (Windows, Linux, macOS)
      • manages all versions of LAS files (1.0 to 1.4)
      • gives much more control over extended fields (Extra-bytes VLR) as well as custom mapping between
        the existing fields of a cloud and their destination in the LAS file

    • VoxFall: non-parametric volumetric change detection for rockfalls

      • computes volume differences between 2 meshes, with some visual representation

    • New plugin: q3DMASC

      • 3DMASC is an advanced plugin for 3D point cloud classification, that uses Multiple Attributes, Scales and Clouds.
        It is possible to use it with the GUI but also to call it with the command line.
      • See https://lidar.univ-rennes.fr/en/3dmasc

    • New plugin: qTreeIso

      • a 3D graph-based individual-tree isolator (treeiso) from Terrestrial Laser Scanning point clouds
      • by Zhouxin Xi and Chris Hopkinson, Artemis Lab, Department of Geography & Environment, University of Lethbridge (Canada)

    • New plugin: qPythonRuntime

      • Early step attempt at allowing to use Python to automate some stuff in ACloudViewer.

    • See https://github.com/tmontaigu/CloudCompare-PythonRuntime

    • New Python-based plugin: 3DFin (3D Forest Inventory)

      • automatic computation of tree parameters in terrestrial point clouds
      • accessible via the Python plugin (check the option to install it via the Windows installer)
      • see https://github.com/3DFin/3DFin
      • developed at the Centre of Wildfire Research of Swansea University (UK) in collaboration with the
        Research Institute of Biodiversity (CSIC, Spain) and the Department of Mining Exploitation of
        the University of Oviedo (Spain)

  • Enhancements:

    • Command line mode
      • I/O plugins are now loaded in command line mode (i.e. the FARO, DP and PCD formats can now be used)
      • set the default PCD output file format: -PCD_OUTPUT_FORMAT {format}
        • format can be one of 'COMPRESSED_BINARY', 'BINARY' or 'ASCII'
        • default format is 'COMPRESSED_BINARY'
    • PCD:
      - Can now load PCL files with integer xyz coordinates (16 and 32 bits) as well as double (64 bits) coordinates
      - Can now load 'scan grids' corresponding to structured clouds (so as to compute robust normals for instance)
      - the (standard ?) 16bytes alignment for the various fields has been removed, so as to drastically reduce the memory consumption and the output file size!
      • PCD now supports loading more field types (8 bit signed and unsigned, 16 bit signed and unsigned, 32 bit unsigned, 64 bit floating point)
      • PCD files can now be loaded or saved with local characters. PCD files will also be saved as compressed files by default.
      • PCD format:
        • a new dialog will appear when saving PCD file, to choose the output format (between compressed binary, binary and ASCII/text)
        • this dialog can be hidden once and for all by clicking on the 'Yes to all' button
        • the default output format can also be set via the command line (see above)
    • The Animation plugin now uses ffmppeg 6.1

supported platform:

  • Windows x86/64
  • Linux x86/64
  • MacOS X64 && arm64 (M1 and M2)

What's Changed

Full Changelog: v3.9.1...v3.9.2

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