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Hi,
I am trying to visualize the PLY files exported from CloudCompare in other tools like Online3DViewer and Paint3D. When I export a .fbx to .ply in CloudCompare, the rendering of the .ply in the other tools goes well. But when I export .bin to .ply in CloudCompare, the rendering fails in the other tools. Paint3D says failed to import, and Online3DViewer as Invalid header information. When these tools can render the former .ply, why these errors for the later .ply. I am not sure of the reason, it would be great if you can throw light on the same.
Thank you.

I guess it's maybe due to the scalar values? the PLY format is very versatile, and you can virtually export anything in a structured way. However, there's no convention for the field names.

Can you check what the entities in the BIN files contains? (normals, scalar fields, RGB color, etc.) compared to the FBX files? And you can try to remove the features which are not present in the FBX files (one by one) and see if it helps?