boxClipper3D tutorial

[patcmorneau]

I could not figure out a way to see if my .rst file is ok.

http://sphinx.pocoo.org/rest.html is down

[mvieth]

Hi, to do what you describe in this tutorial, I would recommend CropBox instead. Personally, I haven't used BoxClipper3D much, but it seems to me that CropBox is used more often, better tested, and is clearer regarding whether transformations are applied to the box or the cloud

[mvieth]

Note: argc and argv are unused, that is why the documentation check fails

[patcmorneau]

Thanks, i will look at the CropBox, it might suit more want we want to do.

[mvieth]

@patcmorneau Hi again, did you have a chance to test CropBox? If you agree that CropBox is to be preferred over BoxClipper3D for this use case, I would rather not add a tutorial that recommends the use of BoxClipper3D.

Additionally, I opened a pull request to change the behaviour of the BoxClipper3D constructor you use in this tutorial. That pull request addresses the "counter intuitive-ness" you also mentioned, which was also reported in an issue a few years ago. For further reasoning, please see my pull request. If my pull request is merged, this tutorial would be out of date.

So to conclude, I am not sure if it is a good idea to add this tutorial. What do you think?

[patcmorneau]

Yes the cropBox is what we were looking for, thank you !
Also I don't know if its worth mentioning in the documentation that the rotation are in radians.