PointDeviation

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Surface Analysis	Analyze Surface > Point Set Deviation

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Analyze

Surface >

Point Set Deviation

The PointDeviation command reports the distance between selected point objects, control points, mesh objects, mesh vertices, and a surface.

Steps

Select the objects from which to measure, and press Enter.
In the Point / Surface Deviation dialog box you can change the color of the selected point objects and mark them with indicator lines.

Point / Surface Deviation options

Options

Proximity angle

Points qualify for display if the hair line is this close to the normal direction on either the curve or the surface. Default is 1 degree. No points disqualify at 180.

Hair scale

The hair is exaggerated by this factor from the actual distance to the curve or surface. Default is 10.

Display hair

Display the hair line for each qualifying point.

Make hair permanent

Create a line object when the command terminates. Line objects are created on layers with names "Point Test <color>".

Statistics

Point count

The number of points.

Mean distance

The mean distance between the selected points and the selected surface.

Median distance

The median distance between the selected points and the selected surface.

Standard deviation

The standard deviation distance between the selected points and the selected surface.

Ignore

Points beyond this distance are ignored.

Bad point

Points beyond this distance are colored red or ignored.

Good point

Points closer than this distance are colored blue.

On surface

Points on the surface are colored blue.

Apply

After changing settings in the dialog box, click Apply to recalculate the display.