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batch process for subsampling in CC?

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Hi,

is it possible to batch process loading - subsampling - saving subsampled copy of E57 in CC?

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It should be possible by using script.


http://www.danielgm.net/cc/doc/wiki/ind ... ommandLine
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Re: batch process for subsampling in CC?

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Sure.

Create a batch file with the following line

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for %%f in (%*) DO "C:\<YOUR PATH HERE>\Cloudcompare\cloudcompare.exe" -SILENT -O %%f -C_EXPORT_FMT E57 -SS SPATIAL 0.01
You can drag and drop multiple files.

This one is doing spatial subsampling and saving as E57

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Thanks guys! I'll check it out.
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It works perfectly, thanks again! One more thing, after subsampling I need to bake intesity values to RGB. Is there a command to do that in the batch? Sorry, the wiki page doesn't seem to work right now.
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This option is not available through the command line (as no one has ever asked for it ;).
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Much appreciated Daniel,
it saves quite a lot of time to batch subsampling on something like 300 scans! The reason asking for the latter was to automate converting intensity colored scans into software as ArchiCAD or Rhino 3D which can natively only work with RGB values.
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Funny thing in those days I was considering the possibility to move a scalar field to rgb (normals) and batch process the scans. Having the options in the command line would be great.
Well... In general the command line is great!

Jiri, for Rhino check the Arena plugin..

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Massimo,

I had a demo of the plugin and it's impressive how it handles and visualize large pointclouds in Rhino. The only drawback for me is its own file format. I like to stitch to unified e57 which I can also import almost instantely to Archicad.

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Jiri,
Probably part of the insane performance of the plugin is related to the proprietary format. You can export also the arena cloud to neutral formats (including E57) using arena studio in unlicensed mode.
I saw a demo of rhino + arena + visualarq and it's jaw dropping.
While this is getting off topic cloud compare and its command line is a great solution to glue everything together.
I have a set of batch files for the most common tasks.
I only wouldn't use rhino with a native point cloud... It is not meant to be used with a cloud of few hundred million points.
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