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Hello CloudCompare team,

I am reporting a shader compilation error on macOS (Apple Silicon) when enabling the "Draw normals as lines" feature in the latest beta. This issue makes the normals invisible and triggers a constant error popup.

System Specifications:

OS: macOS 26.3 (Build 25D125 ...

Hello Tristan. The DSE program calculates the clusters of each discontinuity set using the DBSCAN algorithm, and assigns an integer number to each cluster within each discontinuity set. The orientations of the clusters can be calculated by fixing the normal vector obtained by the principal pole, or ...

In the 2.13.1 version of Mac, I’ve encountered an issue while using the Compass - Plane Tool. Specifically, the red circle indicating the tool’s position appears at a different location than where my cursor is placed. Interestingly, this bug also occurred in the previous version.

Has anyone else ...

I tried to download the 7z v 2.6.3 beta, and it requested me some missing files: Vcomp110.dll and others

After installing Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4, that version launched succesfully. However, latest version do not work. I installed the latest 2017, and the .net is ...

Thanks for your help Daniel,

Unfortunatelly, It did not work.

I installed the Visual 2013 and 2017, .net (which was already installed), and deleted the CloudCompare folder in the regedit (from here: https://github.com/CloudCompare/CloudCompare/issues/564).

The CloudCompare process is opened in ...

Hi everyone,

I used to work with CC in my laptop, but I recently had to reinstall everything. After formatting and reinstalling W10 (also updates), I found that CC does not launch. At first, I can see the process in the administrator, but after a minute more or less it disappears.

I also tried to ...

Thanks Daniel ;-D

Hi everyone,

I would like to suggest an improvement when managing the color scale. When the number of steps is limited to a low value, for instance 5, I observed that the scalar value in the colorbar is fixed. In my oppinion, the label should show the value in which there is a change in the colour ...

Hi everyone,

I have registered various PC with Cyclone. As the original files were ASCII files (not .ptx files), after the registration process I only could export as .pts or others, not as .ptx. As a result of this, when importing the exported file (pts) with CC, it is loaded as a single cloud ...

Hi Daniel,

I would like to suggest a new functionality related to the properties. When selecting various PC, it is not possible to modify a specific property, for example changing colours or activating the scalar visibility. I would like to suggest to allow the modification of properties of the ...