[Liblas-devel] Clipping

Mateusz Loskot mateusz at loskot.net
Wed Apr 9 12:24:06 EDT 2008


Howard Butler wrote:
> 
> On Apr 9, 2008, at 10:32 AM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Do we have a tool that can clip LAS file to given extent of XYZ pairs?
>> I imagine to have something like:
>>
>> las2las --min X1 Y1 Z1 --max X2 Y2 Z2 --in file.las --out clipped.las
> 
> Yep, but it only clips on x and y, not z.  I'm not sure you would want 
> to clip z's out, but that could be easily added.
> 
> http://liblas.org/browser/trunk/apps/las2las.c#L55
> 
> las2las -i file.las --clip X1 Y1 X2 Y2 --out clipped.las

Hobu,

That's exactlu what I was looking for. You are right, clipping by Z 
value is usually not very useful.

Cheers
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Mateusz Loskot
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