<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 1:17 PM <a href="mailto:vollmer@scanvision.ch" target="_blank">vollmer@scanvision.ch</a> <<a href="mailto:vollmer@scanvision.ch" target="_blank">vollmer@scanvision.ch</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hello!<br>
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Is there a way to compress ply files when writing them with pdal? <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>PLY doesn't provide a compressed format.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">In comparsion to CloudCompare, the files sizes are huge but pdal gives the opportunity to batch process.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>PLY is a standard format that is well-defined. If you're seeing large size differences from another PLY writer, you should examine the options available: <a href="https://pdal.io/stages/writers.ply.html" target="_blank">https://pdal.io/stages/writers.ply.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Andrew Bell<br><a href="mailto:andrew.bell.ia@gmail.com" target="_blank">andrew.bell.ia@gmail.com</a></div></div>