+1 for lasso tool for cleaning, to remove unwanted faces of the mesh
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even though it has been requested before… 
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+1 This would be a great addition
Lasso would be great! +1
Is there anyway to revert back to the original model after the filter has been applied? At the moment I am just saving it. Thanks
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Feature request: lasso selection for pointcould filtering tool
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Some news for this topic? Or other way how to clean points cloud before reconstruction?
Struggling towards an efficient reliable workflow to model inhabited domestic interiors, huge amounts of ‘stuff’ to be removed, both well captured furniture etc and ‘candyfloss’ resulting from failed capture.
A full versatile set of several fast and easy tools, right there within RC, adaptable to both the easy freestanding and the tricky ‘interwoven’ objects, would make a massive difference.
I want to delete unwanted points
hello batuh, you can do that - I recommend you to have a look at the Filter tutorial in the Help facility directly in the software;
have you managed to find it?
It would be a very great features.
However, to my understanding of how RC work. RC didn’t use these pointcloud or Tie points to construct meshes in the next step. RC just compute and show these points as a guideline of how its register the images. All the vertices would be computed from the aligned images using depth maps gained from these images. So deleting these pointcloud, even if it is allow, would not have effect on the reconstruction phase.
I’m just guessing though.
It’s a very important guess, and would be great if RC confirmed that in some detail. It’s a ‘guess’ that seems to have gradually emerged, without official documentation or explanation, only an occasional hint.
We do now seem to understand that the Sparse Point Cloud is only relevant in aligning the images. Once they are aligned, whether well or badly, the Sparse Point Cloud is abandoned, for Reconstruction - Reconstruction begins a completely new process starting from the aligned images (although for a quick and dirty image you can get a coloured-points version of the Sparse Point Cloud - not the same as Reconstruction).
AFAIK that means that all the alignment stuff that’s left in Cache after Alignment plays no further part - may even be deleted(??).
I for one spent months trying out settings to get the most detailed Sparse Point Cloud, thinking it would form the best basis for reconstruction. I posted a lot about it but no one as far as I rememember explained why I shouldn’t have bothered. Or maybe I wasn’t listening!
There’s plenty to understand about this workflow - I’d love more discussion of it, esp from RC.