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Technically, it's an open source project, so anyone can contribute and change (or add) code.

No that's not possible currently.

But if the ASCII file has a header (for instance: '#Ignored X Z Y') then CC should be able to map the right columns automatically I believe.

Not sure what you mean by "it can be significant because of the large data". But yes, if you select purely vertical normals, the M3C2 distance will be the difference in height. And this difference is 'averaged' in a a way, especially if you take a large 'scale' to compute it. Regarding whe...

The C2C distance only gives you absolute distances. Therefore you can't make the difference between added and removed material indeed. You have two options: - mesh the 'reference' cloud (with 2.5D Delaunay if the cloud is not too noisy and 2.5D of course) and use the Cloud-to-mesh distances that are...

Yep, since Qt 5, remote desktop access is not always supported (actually it is possible to achieve that, but not with any configuration). Same thing for old Intel chipsets.

Actually the cross section tool allows you to extract multiple sections, but in a grid-like manner (each section is repeated along one or more direction, with an optional gap between each). Therefore you can't use it for your need. Same thing with the -CROP option (that would be simpler) but you wou...

Are you exporting it with the 'active layer' option checked?

It seems to be an issue with OpenGL... What graphic card have you? And does the official 2.10 (or the 2.11 alpha) version works on your computer?

Nope, sadly this feature never came to life... Funding was aborted...

Nope. That's not availabe through the command line for now (someone would need to instrument the command line mode code to do that).