C# RhinoCommon Feature Request: PointCloud object

[scudelari (Rafael Scudelari)]

Hello Everyone,

I have yet another request for improvement on the RhinoCommon PointCloud object.

It would be nice if the Merge method would merge normals, colours and values (if the data is available on both clouds, obviously).

I feel it is incomplete to simply merge the array of points but ignoring the other values.

Thanks!

[scudelari (Rafael Scudelari)]

Moreover, the description of what the method does in the API is misleading:

Copies the point values of another point cloud into this one.

The expression point values is not clear in this context because the Point Cloud has points and “values”.

Thanks much - I’m just trying to contribute and improve

[Tom_P]

the new documentation is missing the item accessor and therefore the link to the underlaying PointCloudItem
@mkarimi please have a look at this - thanks.

[mkarimi (Morteza Karimi)]

@Tom_P

missing the item accessor

This is a known issue with Roslyn. https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/WWW-2058/Item-property-for-collections
I’ll see if I can work around it.

[mkarimi (Morteza Karimi)]

@scudelari

Moreover, the description of what the method does in the API is misleading:

Copies the point values of another point cloud into this one.

@dale wrote that description. Maybe he can clarify.

[dale (Dale Fugier)]

Perhaps at one time it only “merged” points.

I’ll see that the comments are tuned up.

Thanks,

– Dale