Command Line Conversion to binary

[Jones]

Hi,

I'm trying to convert an ASCII .ply file (point cloud) to a binary .ply. However, even though the command line prompt says i'm successful, there is no resulting binary .ply file as output. The strange thing is that if i open up the file in CloudCompare gui interface, i can then save as a binary .ply without a problem. I cloned the repo to get the latest source, but that didn't work either. Anyone have suggestions?

CloudCompare -O dense_point_cloud.ply -C_EXPORT_FMT PLY -PLY_EXPORT_FMT BINARY_BE

To daniel, great work with this tool, it been really helpful!

[daniel]

Hi, by default if no action is performed, no file will be created. You have to explicitly tell CC to save the loaded cloud (with SAVE_CLOUDS).