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Hi, sorry for the newby question, with other software i can compare the cloud with a plane and have as results the difference in meters from the plane (positive or negative).
The other software is 3dreshaper.
After read a lot of tread on this forum and the manual is not clear to me if is possible to do this with CloudCompare and how to fo it.
Define a plane? in the other one i Import a cad line and on it i define my plane
Do the math? I see that the difference from cloudcompare are not in meters but statistical (correct or i misunderstood?)

I need to do this on a quay, to show where the structure is away form the vertical plane and so give a waring about the structure.


Kind regards

You can either 'fit' a plane on a cloud (or a polyline) with 'Tools > Fit > Plane'.

Then select this plane and the cloud, and compute the distances with 'Tools > Distances > Cloud/Mesh Dist.'

And the results of the distances computation are expressed in the same units as the input clouds.

You can also select (segment) a part of the cloud to fit the plane more accurately or compare the right part of the cloud.