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.pcd - Cloud Point File Structure

  • 3 August 2020
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OpticStudio's tool to export point clouds creates a lens.pcd file. The 11 first lines are information about the file structure, then followed by the points.



# .PCD v0.7 - Point Cloud Data file format
VERSION 0.7
FIELDS x y z
SIZE 4 4 4
TYPE F F F
COUNT 1 1 1
WIDTH 100
HEIGHT 100
VIEWPOINT 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
POINTS 10000
DATA ascii

Could someone fill in the blanks?


VERSION    ->    Tool Version Number


FIELDS       ->    Order of Coordinates


SIZE           ->    ?


TYPE          ->    Number Type? In this case Float?


COUNT       ->    ?


WIDTH        ->    Number of Data Points along the Width?


HEIGHT       ->    Number of Data Points along the Height?


VIEWPOINT ->    ?


POINTS       ->    Number of Data Points


DATA           ->    Data Encoding

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Best answer by Mark.Nicholson 3 August 2020, 19:36

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Hey Victor,


Full file format specs are at https://pointclouds.org/documentation/tutorials/pcd_file_format.html

Perfect!


Thank you very much!

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