A new minor version has been released! You'll find it here:

	CloudCompare 2.13.1 installer version	CloudCompare 2.13.1 7z archive version	ccViewer 1.41 7z archive version
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Sources	git repository: https://github.com/CloudCompare/CloudCompare/releases/tag/v2.13.1 (for compilation instructions, refer to the BUILD.md file)

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The 2.13.1 is a minor release that brings some small improvements and fixes a few bugs.

Here are the improvements:

• the Facets plugin will now retain the Global Shift information when extracting facets, and the 'Global center' will also be exported when exporting facets info to CSV or SHP files

• the Compass plugin will now warn the user if a wrong entity is picked

• the 'Edit > Tools > Apply transformation' dialog accuracy has been improved (so as to properly handle small rotation angles)

• it is now possible to save clouds (points and normals) as an OBJ file

• the 'Tools > Distances > Cloud/Mesh distances' tool will now use a smarter algorithm to avoid edge cases when determining the sign of the distance.
• the dialog has a new 'robust' option (enabled by default) to control whether this new algorithm should be used or if the old algorithm should be used.
• the ICP tool dialog also has a 'robust' option (Research tab) to control this behavior when using C2M distances
• new command line option -NON_ROBUST to force the old behavior for both the C2M distances computation and the ICP tools (see below)

• Command line options
• New suboption for the -C2M_DIST command line option:
• -NON_ROBUST to disable the robust signed C2M distances computation algorithm (old behavior)
• New suboptions for the -ICP command line option:
• -USE_C2M_DIST to force the computation of Cloud/Mesh distances (only if the reference entity is a mesh)
• -NON_ROBUST to disable the robust signed C2M distances computation algorithm (old behavior)
• -NORMAL_MATCH {OPTION} to specify the normals matching mode (no normal matching is used by default).
• {OPTION} can be OPPOSITE, SAME_SIDE or DOUBLE_SIDED

• The 3DFin plugin version has been bumped to 0.3.3

And here are the bug fixes:

• CSF plugin:
• the multi-threading strategy could cause artefacts in the cloth simulation, leading to suboptimal results
• CSF: the acceleration component was wrongly multiplied twice by the square time increment, requiring much more iterations for the algorithm to converge

• 3DMASC plugin
• when using a test cloud, the process was automatically terminated as if the user had clicked on the 'cancel' button

• DotPorduct (DP) file I/O filter
• the filter was not able to load files with non latin characters.
• it was also wrongly reporting its ability to export files while it is no longer the case.
• upgrading the DotProduct SDK to version 5.2 to avoid crashes when loading some DP files

• The -EXTRACT_CC command line option could overwrite the automatically saved component clouds if multiple clouds were originating from the same file. Now the component filenames will contain the cloud name and index in the file to make sure they are unique.

• The Global Shift information was not always saved when exporting to the PCD format

• When refusing to change the Global Shift & Scale information after applying a transformation, the Global Shift & Scale information could be reset

• When changing values in the Apply Transformation tool, a chain of events/updates could lead to a strange behavior of the dialog

Best wishes to all,

Daniel
CloudCompare admin

PS: if you can't read this message properly, you can read it here: http://www.cloudcompare.org/release/notes/20240320/index.html