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Hi CC community,

I found myself in need to call programmatically any method to smooth point cloud surfaces after scan and alignment.

Nevertheless I cannot find any option on CC to do this besides MSL. Would there be any chance to add this call (event default values) to command line functions?

Or in case anyone knows an alternative, could this one be shared?

(Before MSL)


(After MSL)

Well, if someone wants to add MLS (and more generally the qPCL plugin) accessible via the command line, then (s)he is welcome of course ;)

Have you tried SOR (which is already accessible via the command line)?

daniel wrote: ↑Tue Dec 10, 2019 10:05 pm Well, if someone wants to add MLS (and more generally the qPCL plugin) accessible via the command line, then (s)he is welcome of course ;)

Have you tried SOR (which is already accessible via the command line)?

Hi Daniel, thanks for the answer. I tried SOR but is doesn't do a good job in my case, as you can see below:

(before SOR)


(after SOR)


I would like to get a smooth point surface, I know with Poisson Reconstruction and getting a new vertex cloud could help, but I would like to do all by command line and avoid mesh reconstruction if possible.

MLS works like a charm for this purpose, but I don't know how to add command line capability to call the pluggin :(