Is pcd fileformat supported with the PVGeo ?

[ammaryasirnaich]

Does PVGeo support pcd file format to analyze point clouds from lidar datasets ? if so can you refer to any demo example.

Thanks

[banesullivan]

https://github.com/daavoo/pyntcloud supports PCD and can easily convert to a PyVista mesh (effectively achieving what PVGeo would provide if supporting PCD files).

See the example in their README, but it'd be something like:

from pyntcloud import PyntCloud
import pyvista as pv

cloud = PyntCloud.from_file("some_file.pcd")
mesh = cloud.to_instance("pyvista", mesh=False)

[ammaryasirnaich]

Thanks @banesullivan for sharing the link and the snippet. Actually, I have tried the Pyntcloud library before and was having issues with the visualization part #310 that's why I wanted to try if PVGeo for it.

[banesullivan]

At the end of the day, PVGeo just converts things to PyVista (which is what PyntCloud is doing here) - if having viz issues with PyVista, please head over to the discussion forms for help: https://github.com/pyvista/pyvista/discussions

[ammaryasirnaich]

Many thanks, @banesullivan for the help. I will try the discussion forum on pyvista then

[ammaryasirnaich]

I think I have found the workaround for this issue using, pyntcloud, as you said

from pyntcloud import PyntCloud
import pyvista as pv
import PVGeo
cloud = PyntCloud.from_file("file_name.pcd")
vtkpoints = PVGeo.points_to_poly_data(cloud.points)
vtkpoints.plot(clim=[0,1], point_size=1)