So I bought the tips and tricks booklet today and have been having a scan through it, it's pretty good well done. I have a question though. Importing ply format. I cannot get this to work. There isn't an example ply format file to try either. The booklet says import ply (pretty much) with the words range_grid.

My issue is I have a little scanner which gives me a ply file which is all nonsense when you open it in text. I can convert this to figures using the likes of cloudcompare, but how the hell do I get it to work inside ViaCAD Pro V10?

I've attached a very rubbish scan just as an example. I've tried converting it to text and adding range_grid to the first line, tried running it with no space, spaces, tab spaces, nothing appears when I import it.

Please any help would be great? Even if I know how the file should look when you open it in text editor I could probably get it to work.

Thanks

Edited by user Wednesday, September 27, 2017 8:10:46 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Cool thanks. Yeah I'm wondering if it's like the spline files, you can make them up by adding a //whatever at the start of the file then save as .spl

I can't but I can stick that file through meshlab/cloudcompare software and get an ascii format, which I've done and that had no affect on importing it, which is what's making me think I need to do something else to the file?