I'm trying to take some complex 3D shapes and use them to clip a lidar pointcloud. Here's an example of the shape:
I need all the points that lie inside those cylinders places into a seperate las file. The 3D shapes are stored as a series of polygons with height attributes in a shapefile, I've been using the 3DForcer, then extruding them, then using the geometry coercer and aggregator, finally then feeding them through the clipper.
The problem is the clipper seems to clip everything above and below the largest polygon, as if it were 2D. Below is the result, as you can see it's clipping points outside the yellow cylnders which is what I don't want.
Are my shapefiles not truely 3D when I'm feeding them into the clipper? Should I not be aggregating them? I'm trying to clip trees out fo a forest, so whatever I do has to be batch processed 20,000 times.
Thanks a bunch!
-EAYREY
