Contours

To create isolines (contour lines) of your models (grid or unstructured point clouds and meshes) you can access the relative command in the Mining top toolbar.

According to the frustum of the loaded models in the project, several horizontal cutting planes (parallel to X and Y axes of current UCS) will be created; it's possible to define starting and ending altitudes and the interval between planes. These planes will be automatically used to intersect the models and extract the contour lines.

Flag Extract point slice to extract also slices of point cloud in correspondences of the each isoline. The thickness of the slice is defined by the slice depth value.

Follow the step-by-step video tutorial below to perform the Contours process.

It is really suggested to use this tool on continuous and without opened boundaries surfaces.

See more details about the sectioning tools and export modalities at Cross sections introduction.