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hi i am student studying lidar data and 3d reconstruction. I use velodyne lidar VLP16 and i usually get pcd files from VeloView which is a lidar software provided by Velodyne. I want to use these pcd files to make a 3d mesh. I ve been searcing for this topic but i cant easily find how can i make 3d mesh by using pcd file. Some of the Youtube lectures told me to use CloudCompare Plugin "poisson recon" to do this job. I tried this but it saids i have to use pcd file with normal. I cant handle this problem by myself. Can you give me some advice to make 3d mesh with pcd files?
Additionally, i want to merge the pcd files into one pcd file does CloudCompare has any options or tools to do this work?

At least you should be able to easily merge (PCD) files as one. Use https://www.cloudcompare.org/doc/wiki/index.php/Merge and eventually select the resulting cloud and save it as a PCD file.

For the normals, if the PCD file is structured, it should be fairly easy to orient the normals. Otherwise it can be a little bit more complex to achieve the proper orientation of all the normals. Anyway, everything happens here: https://www.cloudcompare.org/doc/wiki/i ... %5CCompute