[Paraview] Read a custom point stored in ply file

Utkarsh Ayachit utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com
Wed Apr 25 11:46:43 EDT 2018


> I forgot something in my last e-mail, sorry. Maybe if a revision of the ply
> reader is needed we can add to the issue that at this moment paraview is not
> able to read a ply without cells. For instance the file attached in the
> Mathieu's e-mail. It is a file that contains xyz and rgb information. This
> file is possible to read in meshlab without any pre-processed but not in
> paraview (I need to add the filter provided by Mathieu). I do not know if
> this is  complex. What do you think?

Albert,

Can you attach an example? Also, do you mean it fails to read entirely
or just doesn't render anything? If it's the latter, try using the
"Point Gaussian" representation, instead of the default "Surface"
representation. That renders points without the need for any cell
information.

Utkarsh


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