Cannot Snap to Point Cloud in 3ds max 2016, bug?

Jonathan85

I have 3ds max 2016 (with sp2 i think). And i have imported a rcs point cloud. Im trying to build geometry on the point cloud and for that i need to snap to the point in the point cloud, but it doesnt work. It ignores the snap. I tried what i could but it doesnt snap to the point cloud points. Sometimes (1 out of 20 tries) it does i think, but the majority of the time it doesnt...

I searched the internet and it found only 1 similiar problem (on reddit) and the person there didnt fix it, he just downgraded to 3ds max 2015 in which he didnt have this weird problem... I wanna use 2016, wheres the problem, could it be a bug?

thomasp

snapping gives me some really odd behaviour once in a while. sometimes i screw up by having constraints toggled on in my poly mesh or using the wrong coordinate system (screen works best for me with the gizmo turned off) but once in a while it all seems so screwed up that only exporting the snap target as an obj and reimporting it fixes the issue.

not sure if that last bit is applicable to working with point clouds (never done that).

Jonathan85

Hmm interesting... what do you mean BTW by "exporting the snap target" (you mean the mesh you want to snap on?)

Eric Chadwick

Yes. Exporting to OBJ, then importing into a fresh scene, clears out any hidden corrupted data which Max might have.

thomasp

snap target refers to the object you want to snap to, correct.