Please add PTS reader as native LiDAR format, because reading it as a CSV is veeeeeery slow.
Archived
Add Autodesk PTS reader
This post is closed to further activity.
It may be an old question, an answered question, an implemented idea, or a notification-only post.
Please check post dates before relying on any information in a question or answer.
For follow-up or related questions, please post a new question or idea.
If there is a genuine update to be made, please contact us and request that the post is reopened.
It may be an old question, an answered question, an implemented idea, or a notification-only post.
Please check post dates before relying on any information in a question or answer.
For follow-up or related questions, please post a new question or idea.
If there is a genuine update to be made, please contact us and request that the post is reopened.
+22- Safer
FME 2017's CSV reader should be much faster -- if you make a workspace from scratch and add one. That said, definitely work for us to do here.
+11- Contributor
I've been looking at this again recently. The new CSV2 reader is a lot faster (good work!) but you still need to push its contents into a PointCloudCombiner, which for 200 million points can take 4 or 5 hours. I'm assuming (hoping) a native reader could do this a lot more quickly?
PTS seems to have become a standard for interior LiDAR surveys, to the extent that I've talked to subcontractors who didn't know what LAS was.
There's a good summary half way down this thread: https://www.laserscanningforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=743 (PTX keeps coming up as well - I haven't seen the others yet).
PTS is text-based, space-delimited, and looks like:
Number_of_points (first header row)
X Y Z Intensity R* G* B* (subsequent rows; the starred items are optional)
342684 4.246445 -6.426620 -50.214615 -399 66 50 83 -9.318283 -6.01405 -51.129257 -437 132 141 152 ...
+11- Contributor
Thanks to the FME Doctors for pointing out the POINTCLOUDXYZ reader... missed that one!
Login to the community
No account yet? Create an account
An FME Account is required to contribute
LoginEnter your E-mail address. We'll send you an e-mail with instructions to reset your password.