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Hi,

Is it possible to caclulate the point cloud density (perhaps points per mm2)?

Thanks

See https://www.cloudcompare.org/doc/wiki/index.php/Density

Thanks, Daniel. I had come across this but wasn't sure if there is a way to obtain a value of the average (whole) point cloud density in mm2?

So first the density values units will depend on the original cloud coordinates units (CC loads the values 'as is' from the files, which units are used are almost never indicated in the files, so CC will just compute everything in the same units, implicitly).

Then, once you have computed 'surface density' (if you want square units), then you can fit a Normal distribution on the resulting scalar field (cloud) with Edit > Scalar field > Compute stat. params'. And then read the average density from there.

Thanks for your reply, that's really helpful