Pointools Plug-in for Rhino

Pointools Plug-in for Rhino™ delivers Pointool’s industry leading point cloud display technology into Rhinoceros®.

Product Overview
The Pointools Plug-inTM for Rhino® delivers the power and flexibility to reuse the largest point cloud models inside Rhinoceros modelling software.

Streamline scan-to-model workflows and import all major scan data formats. Eliminate time-wasting translation by reusing the Pointools POD model format. Maintain visual quality and model accuracy & display billions of points on screen without extreme decimation. Increase model productivity by creating 2D/3D geometry from a selection of points.

Pointools Industry Leading Display Engine

Pointools Plug-in for Rhino uses our industry leading display technology to deliver high-performance point cloud visualisation within Rhinoceros®. This means you can work with 100's millions of points within Rhino and enjoy performance comparable to View Pro and Edit.

Intensity, RGB and Lighting Shaders

All shading options are fully blendable and update immediately as you change options. You can even setup different shading settings in each viewport to optimise each view. The per-viewport shader setup is saved in your Rhino 3dm file along with sections and references to POD files.

POD Scene Management

Unload and reload POD files as you need. When a POD file is unloaded Rhino displays a native Rhino Point Cloud as a proxy. Users without Pointools 4 Rhino can still open your 3dm files and use the Rhino proxy cloud without destroying the Pointools setup.

Rapid Viewport Sections

Easily make any orthographic view a section view, choose its thickness and dynamically update its position. Just grab and drag the section line in another viewport and watch the view update. You can even link the Contruction Plane to the section view so you're always drawing in the right place. Stop wasting hours cutting hundreds of sections to get the detail you need, just click and drag!