[GRASS-SVN] r56167 - grass-addons/grass7/vector/v.in.ply

[svn_grass at osgeo.org]

Author: neteler
Date: 2013-05-08 12:59:45 -0700 (Wed, 08 May 2013)
New Revision: 56167

Modified:
   grass-addons/grass7/vector/v.in.ply/v.in.ply.html
Log:
v.in.ply: author's notes from grass-user added

Modified: grass-addons/grass7/vector/v.in.ply/v.in.ply.html
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--- grass-addons/grass7/vector/v.in.ply/v.in.ply.html	2013-05-08 19:23:05 UTC (rev 56166)
+++ grass-addons/grass7/vector/v.in.ply/v.in.ply.html	2013-05-08 19:59:45 UTC (rev 56167)
@@ -4,11 +4,22 @@
 file always holds a number of vertices which are imported as points. PLY 
 vertices can have a number of properties in addition to their 
 coordinates. These properties are stored in an attribute table. For 
-larger PLY files with many vertices (> 1000) it is highly recommended 
-to not use dbf as database driver, but sqlite, PostgreSQL or MySQL, 
-because the dbf driver is rather slow and can consume a lot of memory. 
-The database driver can be set with <em>db.connect</em>.
+larger PLY files with many vertices (> 1000) it is highly recommended 
+to not use DBF as database driver, but SQLite (default in GRASS GIS 7),
+PostgreSQL or MySQL, because the DBF driver is rather slow and can
+consume a lot of memory. The database driver can be set with <em>db.connect</em>.
 
+<h2>NOTES</h2>
+<em>v.in.ply</em> is designed for large point clouds with the
+possibility to have only coordinates, and no attribute table (for speed
+reasons).
+
+<h2>EXAMPLES</h2>
+
+<div class="code"><pre>
+v.in.ply input=myfile.ply output=myfile
+</pre></div>
+
 <h2>REFERENCES</h2>
 
 <a href="http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/ply/">http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/ply/</a>