beginner archaeology student question

[mbuck74]

So I just discovered this program for one of my classes and was trying to load an e57 file (just under 40gb) I got from openheritage.

I was trying to load it on my computer, which I know is kind of lacking, and it manages to load almost all the way before telling me that it has run out of memory. By lacking, my computer only has 8gb of RAM (money has kept me from upgrading at the moment :( ). But I saw another post where slicing the model down was mentioned? Is there anyway that I may be able to do something like that? The professor is chill so it won't nuke me if my system is just too old to work with that file

[daniel]

Ah, not with E57 files sadly (you can split the file in tiles with the LAS format).

Another option, if you have a lot of time, is to increase the virtual memory limit in Windows, and then use the command line to open the file and subsample it for instance (see https://www.cloudcompare.org/doc/wiki/i ... _line_mode). The command line mode is much more efficient (as even if you eventually manage to load the file in virtual memory, your graphic card will probably blow up when trying to display the cloud).