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In principle the SDK should support processed fls files just fine. The format and their SDK ecosystem has always been a little flacky though.

If you need .fls support maybe you could ask on the Laser Scanning Forum where some of the Faro devs occasionally post.

Regarding PDAL on Windows, as far as I know, the PDAL packages in OSGeo4W are no longer maintained. They are certainly a couple versions out of date. The Conda packages for PDAL are now the recommended way to install binaries on Windows.

As a user who has been using .fls files to move scans between Faro's software and various other applications for years I've been watching this thread closely. Because of the pain caused by issues like this (which crop up continuously with every software that uses Faro's SDK) and the fact that the fo...

We're working on setting up a similar pipeline based primarily on PDAL and Houdini. The first thing I would decide on is exactly how you're going to build the mesh as that will determine how you need to process the original point clouds, e.g. if you're going to use something like Poisson Surface Rec...

I noticed that the Faro FLS plugin is not included in the portable 7z build for Windows. Is the reason for that technical or legal? I know that the plugin requires Faro's SDK to be installed by the user, which wouldn't happen as part of unpacking the portable build. Nonetheless, it is common for peo...

If you'd like to share the full file with me I'd be happy to take a look and see what I can come up with.

Nuke's .chan format would probably be the simplest format as it's basically just an ASCII list of camera poses: https://en.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts/Import-Export/Nuke However, as with most of these sorts of txt formats it is a little bit ad-hoc and there tend to be a few diffe...

It would be cool to have CC support OpenVDB.

In the meantime though, if anyone's looking for a method to convert point clouds to VDB I'd recommend Houdini.

Very cool. I'm just curious though why you opted for the center of the screen rather than the mouse cursor as the rotation point? I haven't had a chance to test in CC yet, but from regularly using software that implements both behaviors I find rotation around the cursor to be much more predictable a...

For the dynamic ray cast, I fear it would be too much CPU intensive. Or we would have to compute the octree for all entities, all the time... That could be an option of course. I think this would be interesting to test. In my experience with other applications that aren't backed by a spatial data s...