CloudCompare forum

Hi,

I am importing polylines with a .poly file as sets of points with a blank line between them.

X Y Z
X Y Z
X Y Z
X Y Z

X Y Z
X Y Z
X Y Z

X Y Z
X Y Z
X Y Z

Can I also encode line properties (width, color) in the file? That would be really helpful. I have too many lines to edit the properties individually after they are loaded. Or, is there another file type that I can use? I'm generating the .poly file myself in Matlab or Python.

Thanks

Chris

Nope, this format is super simple.

And for now it's the only 'open' format that allows to import polylines in CC. Otherwise you would have to use DXF but that's not easy to generate (and quite heavy).

Hey,

I have a txt file of the format:

X Y Z
X Y Z
X Y Z

I force change the extension to .poly, but I get the following error: "an invalid polyline (single vertex) will be ignored"

I think I'm doing something really stupid because I'm a novice in this area. Any ideas?

Vishal

Make sure there's no blank line. A blank line is interpreted as a separation between 2 polylines.