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Version: 3.4.20 (unreleased)

Attributes (Meshes and Point Clouds)

Right-click commands for an attribute layer under the Attributes node of a mesh, point cloud, satellite image or tiled model in the Data Tree. The Attributes node itself has no menu; right-click a layer under it. Click a layer's radio button to colour the object by it; see Showing an attribute. Select two or three layers to cross-plot them in the Charts panel. A point-cloud layer with a filter applied is badged Filtered.

Source resources: IDR_DT_ATTRIBUTES.

Item Context Menu​

Right-click an attribute layer under a mesh or point cloud.

Actions​

  • K-Means Clustering — K-Means Clustering (ID_ATTRIBUTES_KMEANS)
  • ANN Classify — Classify the points or vertices with an artificial neural network trained on the attribute values. (ID_ATTRIBUTES_ANNCLASSIFY)
  • UMAP Projection — UMAP Projection (ID_ATTRIBUTES_UMAPPROJECTION)
  • Create Discrete Colourmap — (mesh layers) Build a discrete colour map from the layer's distinct values and add it to the Colour Maps collection. (ID_ATTRIBUTES_DISCRETECMAP)
  • Cross Plot — With one layer selected, draw its histogram as a column chart in the Charts panel. With more than one it does nothing: select the rows instead to cross-plot them. (ID_ATTRIBUTES_CROSSPLOT)
  • Calculator — Open the attribute calculator to derive new attributes from expressions. (ID_ATTRIBUTES_CALCULATOR)
  • Replace Filtered Values — Replace filtered values (ID_ATTRIBUTES_REPLACEVALUE)
  • Export Histogram — Export histogram (ID_ATTRIBUTES_EXPORTHISTOGRAM)
  • Export Attribute — Export the attribute with positions (ID_ATTRIBUTES_EXPORT_ATTRIBUTE)
  • Copy Color Scale to Clipboard — Copy color scale to clipboard (ID_ATTRIBUTES_COPYCOLOURSCALE)
  • Save Color Scale to Image... — Write the attribute's colour scale to an image file, for use in a figure. (ID_ATTRIBUTES_SAVECOLOURSCALE)
  • Move Up in List — Move up in list (ID_ATTRIBUTES_MOVEUPLIST)
  • Move Down in List — Move down in list (ID_ATTRIBUTES_MOVEDOWNLIST)
  • Remove Common Prefix — Remove common prefix (ID_ITEM_REMOVECOMMONPREFIX)
  • Delete — Delete the selected attribute (ID_ATTRIBUTES_DELETE)
  • Add Graph Network — Add graph network (ID_DEBUG_ADDGRAPHNETWORK)

Transforms submenu​

  • Normalize — Normalize (ID_ATTRIB_TRANSFORMS_NORMALISE)
  • Z Score — Z Score (ID_ATTRIB_TRANSFORMS_ZSCORE)
  • Log Transform — Log Transform (ID_ATTRIB_TRANSFORMS_LOG)
  • Square Root — Square Root (ID_ATTRIB_TRANSFORMS_SQUAREROOT)
  • Exponential — Exponential (ID_ATTRIB_TRANSFORMS_EXPONENTIAL)
  • Cox-Box Transform — Deskew with a Cox-Box Transform (ID_ATTRIB_TRANSFORMS_COXBOX)
  • Clamp to Filter — Clamp to Filter (ID_TRANSFORMS_CLAMPTOFILTER)
  • Clip to Filter — Clip to Filter (ID_TRANSFORMS_CLIPTOFILTER)
  • Clip — Clip attribute to specified limit (ID_ATTRIB_TRANSFORMS_CLIP)
  • Compress — Compress (ID_TRANSFORMS_COMPRESS)
  • Replace Isolated — Replace isolated (ID_TRANSFORMS_REPLACEISOLATED)

Selection submenu​

  • Filtered — Filtered (ID_SELECT_FILTERED)
  • Unfiltered — Unfiltered (ID_SELECT_UNFILTERED)

Group submenu​

On a layer of a mesh or point cloud. Files layers into named groups under the object's Attributes row; see Attribute groups.

  • New Group from Selection — Put the selected layers in a new group and open its name for editing. It starts with the first word the layers share, or New Group. (ID_ATTRIBUTES_GROUP_NEW)
  • Move to group — One entry per existing group: move the selected layers into it.
  • Remove from Group — Return the selected layers to the Attributes row. Shown when one of them is in a group. (ID_ATTRIBUTES_GROUP_REMOVE)
  • Auto-Group by Name — File the layers that are in no group by the first word of their names, up to the first space, _, -, ., ( or :. A word needs at least two layers, and a word every layer shares is not used. (ID_ATTRIBUTES_GROUP_AUTO)

Attribute Group Context Menu​

Right-click a group under an object's Attributes row. Groups have no tick box.

  • Rename Group — Rename the group. Giving it another group's name merges the two. (ID_ITEM_RENAME)
  • Ungroup — Return the group's layers to the Attributes row; the layers are kept. (ID_ATTRIBUTES_GROUP_DISSOLVE)
  • Auto-Group by Name — As above. (ID_ATTRIBUTES_GROUP_AUTO)