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Pointcloud in millimeter

  • 1.  Pointcloud in millimeter

    Posted 05-06-2020 00:28

    I have a customer who want a pointcloud sent to her in mm. Is that possible? The only export-format that seems to support mm in TBC is PTS. But when I try that the file gets HUGE.

    I don't know what she's working with but I'm guessing she should be able to choose import-format in her program..

     

    /Magnus 



  • 2.  Re: Pointcloud in millimeter

    Posted 05-06-2020 08:18

    Point Clouds are typically written with an Origin and the Base Coordinates and then Partial Coordinates for all the points for exactly this reason - the files will be huge if you have to write full coordinates with everything in mm. We Support most of the industry standard Point Cloud Formats - are they trying to use the generated file just as Point Data? Would they accept a Grid of data at lower intervals than the full point cloud. You could also ask if you could shift the Point Cloud to bring the centroid down to 0,0 and then give them the shift Data to get it back to Full Coordinates and that would reduce it somewhat - because the Coordinates would be smaller. PTS is a Point Cloud Format and I guess you can scale the Point Cloud by 1000 and then write it out as a PTS file and tell them the units are mm etc.

     

    I cannot do anything about the file size - PTS just writes the values out in entireity - other formats like LAS are compressed so find out what formats they can read.

     

    Alan 



  • 3.  Re: Pointcloud in millimeter

    Posted 05-06-2020 18:59

    Hi Magnus,

    Unfortunately, mm are not an option for any of the standard point cloud export formats. It's true that you can try using a point export formation (as Alan described above) but that may be a problem if the point cloud is of a significant size.

    David



  • 4.  Re: Pointcloud in millimeter

    Posted 05-06-2020 20:48

    PTS is a point cloud format

     

    Alan

     

    Sent from my iPhone



  • 5.  Re: Pointcloud in millimeter

    Posted 05-07-2020 21:56

    Thank you! I will try that!