DisplayConduit - Set PointCloud.PointStyle From Square To Round?

[michaelvollrath]

@Gijs

How many points are in your cloud? Could you convert the points in the cloud on the fly to normal points perhaps?

Thanks for testing @Gijs , I started with the regular points drawn and indeed that worked fine it just bottlenecks performance wise because the clouds I have are 1 million plus points at times. The point cloud for this can be generated instantly and viewport navigated buttery smooth still. If I use points it’s very low frame rate though.

I do think it’s possible for the point cloud point style to be set as the methods are in the API docs, the Display Mode settings have an option to change that style of point cloud objects, and I saw this older post from Dale to that effect.

TestPointCloudStyle

Hi @Jeff_Witter, As with all test commands, they are not to be used in production, as they can disappear between releases. The proper way to assign different “styles” to point clouds it make a new display mode (Tools > Options > View > Display Modes), modify the point style of point clouds, and assign it to the object using the SetObjectDisplayMode command. Here is an example of two new display modes that are assigned to two different point clouds. [test] Hope this helps. – Dale

I’m just struggling with where/how to apply it in the Display Conduit.

Oddly when I added the Point Cloud to the Rhino Doc and then changed the display mode point cloud style manually in Document Properties it did not change the point cloud style either and was still square.

I don’t want to cry bug as I haven’t tested that enough but it has me wondering if perhaps the Display Mode / Attributes for point cloud objects are in fact not applying correctly.

I’ll test that manually in Rhino outside of my script and see if I find anything odd.

Thanks!