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I have a *.LAS file, I want to transform it to ASCII ....file which contains the coordinates of the points, organised in one line per point. The coordinates are separated per spaces or tabs. Any thoughts?

  • 11 September 2017
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steveatsafe
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Source(LAS)>PointCloudCoercer (Individual Points)>CoordinateExtractor>StringConcatenator(attribute named text_line_data)>TextLine Writer

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Source(LAS)>PointCloudCoercer (Individual Points)>CoordinateExtractor>StringConcatenator(attribute named text_line_data)>TextLine Writer

thanks

 

will try it an see

 

 

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thanks

 

will try it an see

 

 

Make sure to add the PointCloudCoercer - I missed that on my initial reply.

 

 

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thanks

 

will try it an see

 

 

And depending on the size of your point cloud - you may be creating millions of points...

 

 

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Source(LAS)>PointCloudCoercer (Individual Points)>CoordinateExtractor>StringConcatenator(attribute named text_line_data)>TextLine Writer

so, not ASCII writer?

 

 

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And depending on the size of your point cloud - you may be creating millions of points...

 

 

 

yes

 

it is really big

 

it is almost 12 million points!!
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Have you looked at the Pointcloud XYZ writer?

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Make sure to add the PointCloudCoercer - I missed that on my initial reply.

 

 

where should it be placed between?

 

 

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so, not ASCII writer?

 

 

What do you want to achieve?

 

 

SteveatSafe
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What do you want to achieve?

 

 

a bit complicated

 

 

transform my *.LAS file into an ASCII file (like the one attached)cube.pdf ... to open it in a software called DSE to extract discontinuities from a rock face...

 

 

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Have you looked at the Pointcloud XYZ writer?

yes

 

I tried it

 

and it successfully worked...however I need the final file format in ASCII

 

 

erik_jan
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yes

 

I tried it

 

and it successfully worked...however I need the final file format in ASCII

 

 

Yo can set the Character encoding in the parameters.

 

The output will be a text file (with default extension xyz).

 

 

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so, not ASCII writer?

 

 

 

You could add the PointCloudThinner in before the Coercer... or you might want to look at thinning the points afterwards...
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Source(LAS)>PointCloudCoercer (Individual Points)>CoordinateExtractor>StringConcatenator(attribute named text_line_data)>TextLine Writer

lidar-points-to-dfn.pdf

 

successuflly run..however, for some reason it resulted 4,051,966 rows !!

 

 

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Source(LAS)>PointCloudCoercer (Individual Points)>CoordinateExtractor>StringConcatenator(attribute named text_line_data)>TextLine Writer

and this is how the inspector looks like...I did a mistake somewhere...all the data in one column!!!

 

inspector.pdf

 

Can you please advise where is my mistake?

 

 

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