Export of Point Clouds

Export of a Point Cloud

CAD drafting Export of Point Clouds 0 Ribbon: Point Clouds > Point Cloud > CAD software Export of Point Clouds 1 Export

CAD drawing Export of Point Clouds 2 Menu: Point Clouds > CAD drafting Export of Point Clouds 3 Export

CAD software Export of Point Clouds 4 Toolbar: nanoCAD Point Cloud > CAD drawing Export of Point Clouds 5

CAD drafting Export of Point Clouds 6 Command line: NPC_EXPORT

This command allows you to export a point cloud to different formats: LAS (1.2 and 1.4 versions), BIN, PTS, XYZ, PLY, E57, RCS. File formats are described in more detail in the Point Cloud Data Formats section.

1. If cloud points have any meta information, when you run the export command, you will be asked to select those attributes that should be saved by the exported points. If all checkboxes are cleared, only point coordinates without attributes will be exported.

CAD software Export of Point Clouds 7

2. In the export dialog that appears, specify file format, file name and path.

note: When selecting the XYZ format, the file extension will depend on the choice of attributes: if you check all possible attributes, the extension of the resulting file will be *.xyzciedlastrgb, and if you disable all the checkboxes, the extension will be *.xyz.

If the cloud was clipped with one of clip or section commands, then only visible points are exported.

note: Since a clip and a section of a point cloud is performed for a certain viewport, then the export result will depend on which model space viewport was current at the time the command was run.

Besides, if the point cloud has the Class attribute, then only points from visible, unfrozen, unblocked layers will be exported.

Command prompts:

Use all clouds in view? <No> or [Yes/No]:

This prompt is displayed when there are more than one point cloud in the viewport.

Command options:

Yes

If there are multiple point clouds in the drawing, all visible points of all clouds in the model space viewport will be exported to a new file. Points that are not visible in the active viewport because they do not fall within its bounds will also be exported.

After selecting an option, a prompt will appear:

Select point clouds or [?]:

Specify the cloud to be exported, or select ? option.

A prompt will appear in the command line:

Select an option or [Window/Last/Crossing/Box/ALl/Fence/WPolygon/CPolygon/Group/

Add/Remove/Previous/AUto]:

that allows you to select a cloud using various options (see Selecting objects using command line options section)