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I see. So it is to avoid too much computation overhead when loading the cloud. I looked here and there but it did not occur to me that it simply stored the last value. Fair enough ! I will do something similar with my code. I have to compute the point cloud centroid anyway so I might just use it as ...

When loading a point cloud that is geo referenced, if the original coordinate system is too far from the origin, a Global Shift/Scale window will appear with estimated values. How does CC calculate the shift exactly ? I have multiple clouds that get all the same shift values (which is a good thing)....