CloudCompare forum

Posted: **Mon Oct 13, 2014 9:47 am**

This question has probably been asked but I couldn't find it with a basic search.

Is there a way of extracting the residuals from the plane fitting and fine registration RMS values? I'm hoping to plot these to show the distribution of the residuals.

Many thanks

Posted: **Mon Oct 13, 2014 9:52 am**

Yes, once the plane is fitted, select both the plane and the source cloud and compute the distances between them (Tools > Distances > Cloud/Mesh dist).

CC will compute the distances between all points and the plane. Then select only the cloud and save it as an ASCII file. This file will contain X Y Z and the distance of each point per line. It can easily be read by another program such as Matlab or Excel.

Posted: **Mon Oct 13, 2014 9:59 am**

Brilliant, thank you so much!

CloudCompare forum

Registration and Plane Fitting RMS residuals values?

Registration and Plane Fitting RMS residuals values?

Re: Registration and Plane Fitting RMS residuals values?

Re: Registration and Plane Fitting RMS residuals values?