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CloudCompare

CloudCompare is a free open source 3D point cloud processing software. It was originally made to detect 3D high density point clouds with laser scanners. But it evolved to a more general 3D data processing software. By using the software the user can interactively segment 3D entities, and offer the user unlimited scalar fields.

Cloud compare offers

  • Projections
  • registration
  • distance computation
  • segmentation
  • geometric geatures estimation

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Usage on Elja​

To use CloudCompare on Elja you'll need to follow these instructions

Step 1 | Connect to Elja with Xforwarding​

CloudCompare is a graphical user interface software. To be able to use CloudCompare you'll need to connect to Elja with xforwarding. Instructions on how to do that can be found here.

Step 2 | Setting up environment​

[user@elja-irhpc ~]$ module use /hpcapps/lib-edda/modules/all/Core   # Use module lib-edda/Core 
[user@elja-irhpc ~]$ module use /hpcapps/lib-geo/modules/all         # Use module lib-geo
[user@elja-irhpc ~]$ module load CloudCompare                      # loading CloudCompare

Step 3 | connect to a compute node and run software​

[user@elja-irhpc ~]$ srun --partition gpu-2xA100 -n 1 --pty --x11 bash
CloudCompare

Note! On more information about srun and sbatch please have a look at Submitting Slurm Jobs General usage on submitting a job