Compass Tool's Trace Tool - gap tolerance

[jmcnabb]

I've been using the Compass Tool's Trace Tool for some time and find it very useful. However, I often have point clouds with variable point density and I find that the Trace Tool will fail to bridge between points when the space between them reaches some threshold distance. It would be very useful to know 1) what is that set distance beyond which the tool will not bridge between points, and 2) if there any way to adjust (increase) that distance. The second point is the most important. If there were a way to increase the gap tolerance, this tool would be far more useful and a lot of time would be saved. Thank you

[daniel]

Maybe the best way to get an answer would be to contact the author of the plugin directly: https://www.samthiele.science/ (you can find an email address on this webpage - if it doesn't work, you send me an email (to admin [at] cloudcompare.org) and I can give you the author's personal email address).

[daniel]

Another option is to dig in the code, but that will depend on how good is your C++ ;)
https://github.com/CloudCompare/CloudCo ... ceTool.cpp

[jmcnabb]

Thanks for the reply. I'll reach out to the plugin author. That's a far better bet than me digging into the code!