How to Crop, and Rotate a Capture in Polycam

Polycam provides several tools to refine and adjust your captures, including cropping, and rotating. This guide will walk you through the steps to perform each of these actions.

How to Crop a Capture
How to Rotate a Capture

How to Crop a Capture

1. Open your capture: Start by selecting the capture you want to crop from your Polycam library.
   
   
2. Access the crop tool: Locate and select the Crop icon in the editing toolbar.

1. Adjust the crop area: Use the handles at the corners or edges of the bounding box to adjust the crop area to your desired size.
   1. You can also modify the crop bounding box, changing its shape from a cube to a cylinder.
   2. By using the invert buttons on the right-hand side, you can choose to either crop everything outside the bounding box or everything inside it

      4. Apply the crop: Once you’ve set the desired area, tap or click the Apply button to your capture.

How to Rotate a Capture

1. Select the capture: Open the capture you want to rotate.
   
   
2. Find the rotate tool: In the editing toolbar, select the Rotate icon
   
   
   
   
3. Rotate the capture: Use the rotation handles or the on-screen slider to adjust the orientation of your capture.
   
   
4. Save the rotation: To save your rotation, select the black Apply button.