barad_dur Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Howdy all, I have a .ply file for a 16 million point point cloud and I need to get it into a .pc format. Will Houdini's pcwrite function translate the .ply format to .pc that way or is there a better way to go about this? Thanks to all. David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fathom Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 you can write .pc directly from houdini (technically it's handled behind the scenes with i3dconvert). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barad_dur Posted February 3, 2016 Author Share Posted February 3, 2016 Oh man, I'm embarrassed. I wrote that wrong. I meant .pts not .pc. In fact any of these formats would be nice to get H to convert to: .rcs, .fls,.fws, .lsproj, .ptg, . pts, .ptx, .las, .zfs, . zsprj, .asc, . cl3, .clr, .e57, .rds, . txt, xyz, . rcp, .pcg, .xyb Sorry about that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f1480187 Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 (edited) If you are not familiar with simple I/O coding or python scripting, as a workaround solution, you can pre-format data with auto-replace and paste the resulting chunk of coordinates directly into one of specified formats. All you need is sample files to choose from. Also you can try MeshLab. It imports .ply and exports .xyz files. Maybe just a common name but different file structure. Does not store color. Here the sample. Edited February 7, 2016 by f1480187 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
symek Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Many of these formats are ascii based which makes them good match for TableImport SOP. Assumming pointcloud size won't kill it. I'm not sure now, but I think I used to imported xyz or asc that way. Oh man, I'm embarrassed. I wrote that wrong. I meant .pts not .pc. In fact any of these formats would be nice to get H to convert to: .rcs, .fls,.fws, .lsproj, .ptg, . pts, .ptx, .las, .zfs, . zsprj, .asc, . cl3, .clr, .e57, .rds, . txt, xyz, . rcp, .pcg, .xyb Sorry about that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 That .xyz file format looks like it would directly import/export into/from CHOPs as a .chan file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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