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Hey Daniel,

First thank you for your reactivity and awesome tools that is very useful to so many people in our industry.

I am struggling to do a specific task which consists in exporting different clouds as different files. Let me clarify.

I would like to use PDAL directly with a *.bin file from Cloud Compare, which is describes one folder containing different subfolders which contain many point clouds with many attributes and scalar fields.

Therefore, is there a PDAL reader for CC .bin existing ? Else, is there a way to batch export every single cloud retaining RGB, Intensity and all scalar fields (some are not supported by LAS) ?

Kind regards,
Florent

1) I don't think PDAL or any other similar library can load CC's BIN files (because it's a serialized format that requires the qCC_db and qCC_io libraries to be read)

2) I believe the only way to do this currently is to export the entities as ASCII files (this way CC won't have any other choice than creating one separate text file for each entity). And they should retain all the information you have listed. Let me know if it doesn't work (I haven't tested this personally for long).

daniel wrote:1) I don't think PDAL or any other similar library can load CC's BIN files (because it's a serialized format that requires the qCC_db and qCC_io libraries to be read)

2) I believe the only way to do this currently is to export the entities as ASCII files (this way CC won't have any other choice than creating one separate text file for each entity). And they should retain all the information you have listed. Let me know if it doesn't work (I haven't tested this personally for long).

1) Okay, thanks for the answers.
2) This workaround does the trick ! Just the size of files and read/write time are a little long, but as expected :)

Thanks !