Store partial scans and use later for completion

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I need to split parts of a scan and store them. To be able to combine them one-to-one with RevoStudio or CloudCompare. But RevoStudio can select but can not store this. Any suggestion?

PS: a rescan is not possible in this case, the object is too far away now.

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you need to select everything but one and remove the rest , then save it, load again the original scan and do another one until you have all parts saved separately.

You can’t save just selection , it is a whole scan not multiple objects . You can do that the same in Cloud Compare .

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@PUTV I did hope to do in a logical way: store what is selected. If I can select and delete, I might store it too. But what tool would can do so?
Thanks for your quick reaction.

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If RevoStudio can not store any selected part of the cloud, a button ‘‘inverse selection’’ could do the job. Right? Delete the inverted selection and store the file.
Then step back, delete the original selection. And choose the next selection. Repeat.
@Cassie : could such an option be added in the right field?

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If you can reliably select one portion over another, then do as PUTV described and remove everything but the one thing before saving it with a unique name, then reload the original and remove everything except another thing before saving it with another unique name.

Granted, this is a bit more effort than saving a selected region and then saving another selected region. While it is possible that Revopoint will add this capability to Revo Studio, you may have to wait awhile.

I can do it with TurboCAD (my Mechanical CAD software), which also has more advanced methods for separating regions. There are even free CAD software packages, but I don’t know if any of them can do what you want.

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I know but no one program for 3D I use do that .

Revo Studio will not store/save any selected parts without first deleting other parts , so don’t expect any changes in this direction. Reverse selection would be a good additional option for the removing tool.

you will still do exactly the same job you do right now , select, reverse, remove, save, undo, select , reverse, delete, undo etc etc … just without the reverse.

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Like @PUTV said, highly advisable to use freeware cloudcompare for that. Fast and easy. Also for other tasks!

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