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title: "Point Cloud Cleaning"
slug: "cyclone-register-360-point-cloud-cleaning"
updated: 2026-08-05T12:40:55Z
published: 2026-09-07T11:32:06Z
canonical: "rcdocs.leica-geosystems.com/cyclone-register-360-point-cloud-cleaning"
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> ## Documentation Index
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# Point Cloud Cleaning

There are a couple of different ways to clean the point cloud. The user can delete points from the visual cloud and/or delete points from the cloud used for Cloud-to-Cloud registration.

Upon import, two clouds are created for all Setups. One is the visual cloud, and one is the cloud only used for Cloud-to-Cloud registration. The cloud seen in Visual Alignment is the view of the Cloud-to-Cloud cloud.

The user can edit the cloud directly in Visual Alignment, in which case the user would only be editing the Cloud-to-Cloud cloud or can edit the cloud outside of Visual Alignment, in which case the user has a choice to delete the visual cloud and/or the Cloud-to-Cloud cloud.

The use case for only deleting the Cloud-to-Cloud cloud is the case where the user has trees that normally would cause a poor Cloud-to-Cloud fit. If the user wants to keep the trees in the scene but does not want the trees to cause a poor Cloud-to-Cloud fit, the user now has the option of only deleting the Cloud-to-Cloud cloud.

The option to clean the point cloud is available in the following areas:

- [The Setup Cloud or Bundle Cloud View](/v1/docs/cyclone-register-360-setup-cloud-and-bundle-cloud-cleaning)
- [Visual Alignment](/v1/docs/cyclone-register-360-visual-alignment-cleaning)

Additionally, users can utilize filters to clean a project:

- [Detect Moving Objects](/v1/docs/cyclone-register-360-detect-moving-objects)
- [Smooth Surface Region Grow](/v1/docs/cyclone-register-360-smooth-surface-region-grow)