Is there a way to capture the user click on a LiDAR plot?

After using pcshow on a LiDAR (ply) file, is there any way to judge where the user clicks and get the coordinates (x, y and z) of the click on the actual 3d image?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

See https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/62653-convert-currentpoint-to-x-and-y-value#answer_74247

CurrentPoint reflects the limits on where the point might "actually" be

However, in a 3D scene the user "might" be clicking on anything between "in front of" an object to behind the object along the line of sight.

But perhaps instead you might want to turn on datatips for the axes returned by pcshow(), as the datatip information would include Intensity, Range, Azimuth angle, Elevation angle, Row, and Column for a lidar plot.