Is there a way to specify to treat the name column as text?

I'd like to export a latitude/longitude/altitude (WGS84 GEO) point cloud (perfectly read by Global Mapper 24.1 and viewable in 3D) into a Wavefront 3D OBJ file format but I get an error message saying that there's no 3D vector data loaded.

I tried with DXF, DEM or SHP, with same result.

Is it even possible to convert LGZ ASCII file to OBJ ?

currently you can do this individually, but it is time consmunig . i also have old csv files with points i would like to add , a lot of points !

HAving the visualisation of defects greatly helps you notice trends over distance, and is a standard geo tool. it would be super handy !

I have Global Mapper Standard v26.2. I have a number of drill holes in which I wish to make an estimate of the mineralization contained within an radius-based area of influence (buffer). All of the holes are on one layer and frequently these buffers overlap. I would like to resolve the overlap by bisecting the overlap with a line and eliminating the portion of the buffer that is outside the bisecting line. The line would then be joined to the remainder of the buffer and a new area determined. Ideally, this process would be automated and the resolved areas could report to a spreadsheet. Is this within the powers of GM?

My use case: I have loaded tiles of DEM data worth about 3.9B points as a catalog. It shows a bounding box for each tile but the overall shape is irregular so drawing the polygon by hand for the perimeter is not easy. If I try to right-click, Layer, BBOX, I'll kill the program when it tries to load each layer to draw the bounding box. But the catalog has already done this work!

Its a simple question but one I cannot find a simple answer, I know I can slice a building sideways using the path profile view and its great, but is there a way to do the equivalent on the horizontal plane?

Essentially I am trying to draw a couple of buildings footprints, they are in point cloud format, the buildings have little awnings that don't let me see the actual building size from the top down view, so I must "slice" them at the middle to see the walls cleanly.

There are a couple of ways to manually do this (path profile, select walls, copy paste to new layer, view again etc) but since the buildings are at different levels and some on a steep incline its very time consuming to do this on each one.

Is there any better way to do this?

Any suggestions are welcome.

Any thoughts on how to handle this? As you can imagine having a 23.68" diameter pipe being represented as a 2,368" diameter pipe is causing big problems!

Some of our field staff have started to receive new laptops with Windows 11 on them. For basemap reference, these staff members use downloaded Open Street Map .osm files, because all of the features are lumped into one layer, it's not possible to turn on or off labels for different features in the layer (Not that I'm aware of anyway).

This layer worked fine while the staff used Windows 10 PCs, however, after the upgrade to Windows 11, some of the labels no longer display, or display incorrectly. I've exhausted my knowledge base on how to get these feature labeled on their maps. It's important that we get this working as these staff members often work in rural parts of the state and have little to no cellular connection, they rely on the labels in the maps to locate the features they are searching for.

Has anyone else ran across this problem, or a similar problem?

splitting area features at two vertices is quite easy, but now i have an area with a hole inside and this causes trouble.

When i select the two vertices i would like to split at also the hole area is selected and the option "split selected areas at selected vertices" doesn't appear.

How would you perform splits like this?

Thx in advance

Alex

Would it be possible to add the possibility to export even flat areas features as 3D faces instead of hatches when exporting to DXF/DWG?

Some software (Sketchup for example) doesn't import hatches as filled areas so we have to recreate the fill after the import and in some cases it takes quite some time.

Please find attached an example of the kind of features we would like to have as 3D face (attached is the gmp file and the exported DWG file).

Best regards

Couple things that need to be done so I can use export to DGN

1. All entities should come over with attributes set to ByLevel . Right now they're using some arbitrary values to guess at what black is.
2. An option for 2d file output would be helpful.

I’m hoping someone here might have a solution to a long-standing issue that’s been a bit of a nuisance.

Currently, it seems nearly impossible to view a 3D terrain elevation mesh alongside a point cloud using the path profile tool, or at least, I haven’t found a reliable way to do so. Loading point cloud data works fine, and a single 3D terrain mesh also displays correctly. However, unlike point clouds, you can’t compare two terrain meshes directly to visualize elevation differences.

My workaround has been to convert all 3D model meshes into LiDAR-style point clouds with matching resolutions, which allows for accurate comparison within the path profile tool. This method works, but it's time-consuming. Recently, we ran into a case where we need to compare a 3D model of a finished road surface against two terrains: pre-construction and post-construction.

While converting the terrains to point clouds works well, the road object itself has been much more difficult. I’ve tried generating a higher-density point cloud from the object, but the best result I’ve achieved is getting just the vertex points—not enough for proper comparison.

So my question is:

Is there any way to display multiple 3D objects in the path profile tool? Or Alternatively, is there a method to convert a 3D object into a point cloud with a specified point density, so it can be meaningfully compared against terrain data?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Basically I loaded an AutoCAD TIN Mesh, loads fine, looks fine, then I load a second one and i cant tell where one ends and the next begins because they are both gray color.

I have to compare both terrain meshes against each other so i can visually see the differences in distance between the meshes and where, having separate colors would greatly help this.

I tried selecting all meshes with the digitizer and right clicking then selecting edit features, but I get an error saying I cannot edit multiple meshes.

If I edit one triangular facet of the mesh at a time, it works just fine, color changes no problem, but each terrain is comprised of 5800+ individual triangles, manually changing the color of 11,000+ meshes is a nogo situation, there has to be a way to do this in an automated way.

Anyone have any ideas? maybe a way to combine the whole set of individual triangles into a single mesh? I'm stumped.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

the merging of overlapping areas fails permanently and leads to some deleted features.

Can anyone explain why this happens?

Thanks

Alex

Dear All :)

are there any users here who, like me, appreciate good segmentation?

To be honest, the tool for this in GM has been giving me a headache for a long time. I don't find it intuitive, the results often don't correlate with my expectations, some of the values to be set have no meaning whatsoever.

I had tried to establish a new training tool in GM and based it on the capabilities of CloudCompare, but the subsequent implementation in GM25 was not successful and unfortunately not an improvement. It is really depressing for me to have this experience, because GM is a great piece of software in itself.

Can anyone give me any tips to improve the use of the segmentation tool? Of course I know the knowledgebase and I have already spent well over 100 hours with trial and error, but every “success” seems to be a fluke.

The example in the screenshot shows a cut through a ground surface and the “floating points” should be excluded, as well as tree trunks. However, trenches should remain as ground. It's quite simple: just follow the thick line. The values are just an example. I tried a lot of different ones already.

Thanks

Alex