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Rather than convert a point cloud into a surface, I need to substitute each point with simple geometry like a cube or low-poly sphere. (My cloud object is volumetric, and I need to use this technique to create an OBJ a placeholder within a software that does not support point clouds.) Is there any way to do this with CloudCompare?

Thanks.

Not really...

Well you can manually create cubes and spheres (with the 'Primitive factory') and then align them with the cloud (with ICP for instance, after having roughly registered them). But you have to eyeball the size of the cube/sphere before... really not ideal.