Menu: File / Export to
This function allows the user to export the contents of the point cloud to a single file. If the project contains many files (more than one source file), it is also possible to export the point cloud to multiple files. It’s to be noted that only the visible points will be exported; meaning if the user wants to export only ground points, the other classes must be hidden before exporting.
Available formats include:
- .LAS and .LAZ
- .E57
- .CSV
- .PTS
- VisionLidar365
- .RCP
The first formats generate a point cloud in the specified format, while the VisionLidar365 option generates all needed files to view the point cloud in an HTML browser. It has been designed mainly to be broadcast by a server, but there is also a small application provided with VisionLidar to view the files locally. The RCP format will generate all the files needed for a ReCap project to work, thus generating the .RCP and the support subfolder with all the required files.
For the first point cloud file formats, if the project contains multiple source files, it is possible to export these files as one single file or following the number of files imported. When different files are generated, it can either be named from the project name with an increment afterward or by its original scan name. Furthermore, for the .CSV file, the user is able to select the order of the columns and their separator. Here are the columns specific character and what they mean:
X: The X coordinate of the point
Y: The Y coordinate of the point
Z: The Z coordinate of the point
P: The default PCode
C: The class of the point
I: The intensity of the point
F: The intensity of the point in a float value
RGB: The red, green and blue color values of the point
N: The tile incremental number in which it was treated
S: The scan value in which it was ordered in the project
KML: The normal value of the point
You can put only the columns that you wish to export.
The VisionLidar365 format is primarily generated to be putted on a VisionLidar365 server, thus it create not only an .html file that you named but also three other files and 2 subfolders in the same folder in which your .html file is. The subfolder "libs" contains all the libraries for it to work as a web service and the "chrome_local.bat", "civetweb.exe" and "start.bat" are files to simulate a server on your local PC. The .html file will be the web page to view your point cloud and inside the "point cloud" subfolder is the VisionLidar365 project which is in another subfolder with the same name as the .html file. So basically, you can have as many .html files and point clouds in the same folder as needed and only one lib subfolder, "chrome_local.bat", "civetweb.exe" and "start.bat" files in the same folder. To start viewing the project, you will need to launch the "start.bat" which will open your default browser with the address "Localhost:8080", (you might need to allow your firewall to lunch the process) and select the .html file you want to see. There will be an empty command window in your taskbar, it is the false server running. Mind that you can't share the .html file over the internet with this method, it only lunch a server locally on your machine.
It is also possible to export points visible within an extraction, or even exporting points visible within a fence. This becomes useful if a simplified version of the point cloud is needed, since VisionLidar creates an extraction automatically when simplifying the point cloud. See point cloud simplification for more information.
Mind that to update an existing project, you can only export the annotations, spherical images or measurements if needed, but for a new VisionLidar365 project, at least the point cloud must be exported.
