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I have been trying to create normals from an imported Hovermap .laz file but not getting much success at all. Is there a way in Cloudcompare to generate normals based on a trajectory file?

I thought about trying to create TLS sensors along the trajectory file and using them to orient/create normals in the SLAM data but I don't see any option for that (or I'm not understanding the correct process).

Has anyone done anything like this before using Hovermap or other SLAM data?

Not from a trajectory, at least not considered as one. You can only use the center of a single sensor, so you would need to know which points were acquired from which sensor position (which is rarely known, and hard to represent in CC currently, you would need to break out the cloud in multiple ones, and use the command line).