***Note from Migration:***
Original Title was: Call PCL (Point Cloud Library) point cloud processing functions in FME workflows
The open source Point Cloud Library (PCL) has a wide variety of Point Cloud processing algorithms. FME 2017 ships with the Point Cloud Library, but few of its algorithms are currently exposed. Please tell us what algorithms you'd like to see, what what workflows you imagine accomplishing, in the comments below.
+18Would supporting PCD (the PCL file format) open the gateway for faster experimentation? Presumably then anyone could use a SystemCaller preceeded by a FeatureWriter and followed by a FeatureReader to do their own integrations until we caught up?
If the lower hanging fruit is to support PCD read/write, I would ask to expose first. Then, users could begin developing/testing workflows through the SystemCaller, as you have explained. I will update with some workflows I'd be interested in (and others too!).
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I have a simple custom transformer that writes ASCII PCD, I made it for my ThreeJS experiments, where it works well, however, it was never properly tested for anything else, so it is what it is, but I hope it can be helpful as a temporary workaround or as a foundation for your own custom transformer:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/oxazoyu9u2jkb30/PointCloudPCDWriter.fmx?dl=0
With extensive use of point clouds in my organisation, full support of PCL would be incredible but I realise it's easier said than done. But few most important ones for us would be:
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