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E57 Export

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The manual for V8i says
"New Supported Point Cloud Formats
Bentley Pointools V8i now supports the ASTM committee E57 format for import and export, which aims to provide a universally available interchange format."
Yet when I select export, there are only .dxf, .pod, .pts and .xyz available..

Am I missing something?
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My guess is that they only support import of the e57 format, not export...?
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That is obviously the way it is, but the wording of the manual would indicate otherwise.
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Hi David,
I just checked all the export options in SS3 and Descartes..you are right, it doesn't seem to export E57.
Export it out of Bentley as an XTZ file, import it into CloudCompare, then export it as an E57 file.
Its a bit long winded but Cloud Compare is a very fast converter,
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The statement is a little ambiguous. Bentley Pointools supports import of E57, but not export.
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Btw, what is special in the E57? Does it support point normals, scanner positions and intensity/RGB colours?
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DanCutler wrote:The statement is a little ambiguous.
The quoted statement from the manual doesn't seem very ambiguous to me. False yes, ambiguous no.
masimo wrote:Btw, what is special in the E57? Does it support point normals, scanner positions and intensity/RGB colours?
This paper http://www.ri.cmu.edu/publication_view.html?pub_id=6767 describes the format and its goals. Basically, providing an extensible vendor neutral format for data interchange. As to your second question, yes it can store all of those.
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False yes, ambiguous no.
OK, let me re-phrase the sentence:

Pointools now supports the ASTM committee E57 format, which is a point cloud format for import and export.

That is how I intended it to be read. At the time of writing I was not certain if it would be included as an export format, so it was not mentioned specifically. Apologies for the confusion.
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DanCutler wrote:That is how I intended it to be read. At the time of writing I was not certain if it would be included as an export format, so it was not mentioned specifically. Apologies for the confusion.
Fair enough, I didn't mean to sound to critical. I completely understand if features needed to be trimmed to get the software out the door. Is export support planned at some point?
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I recently installed Pointools 64 bit version 2.00.02.10, and they seem to have removed support for importing E57 format. It is available with version 2.00.01.01 but not the current one? Can Dan or anyone comment on this?

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