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title: "Basic Tutorial | Move to a reference model"
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# Basic Tutorial | Move to a reference model

Each time you have to do a comparison or an inspection, you have to put your measures in the reference coordinate system. To do this, there are two methods:

- An alignment according to the shape to minimize distances between the measure and the reference.
- An alignment according to the geometry, generally used in mechanical field, when constraints are defined by circles, lines or planes.

- [Basic Tutorial | Align clouds according to geometric features](/v1/docs/cyclone-3dr-align-clouds-according-geometric-features)
- [Basic Tutorial | Align a point cloud on a reference model according to the shape (Best Fit)](/v1/docs/cyclone-3dr-align-a-cloud-on-a-model-according-to-the-shape)