Contents
- Manage world coordinates
- Beware of the quality & performance tradeoff
- Choose the right material settings
Manage world coordinates
Georeferenced point clouds with large coordinates can easily challenge GPUs and cause precision artifacts. Those point clouds look rasterized or grid-like. When opening a point cloud for the first time, select Origin from the Offset type dropdown menu in the Octree Options dialogue to prevent these issues.
Beware of the quality & performance tradeoff
Increasing the GPU cache and decreasing the Minimum coverage under 
Preferences > Viewport Rendering will boost the number of points rendered, improving the render quality. Beware; this might slow down the rendering.
Choose suitable material settings
When opening a point cloud, a new surface material is created and assigned to the point cloud. Select the point cloud and adjust the Size parameter under Object Inspector > Material Attributes for a closed appearance.
If your point cloud does not contain RGB color information, select a suitable color source (Object color, Elevation, or Intensity) and select Shaded.
For the shaded option to work, normals must be available. Normal computation is enabled by default when opening a point cloud for the first time. Under Object Inspector > Object Attributes, you can verify the availability of Normals.
To choose the Intensity color source, verify that your point cloud contains intensity information under Object Inspector > Object Attributes.