Trouble loading .e57 point cloud in TD on macOS

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Hi everyone,

I’m using TouchDesigner non-commercial on macOS and trying to load a .e57 point cloud file using the Point File In TOP.

However, TD always fails to load the file.
Is that normal ?

If .e57 isn’t supported, what’s the recommended workflow to work with those files on Mac?

Thanks a lot for any help!

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Hi @karlou,

According to the documentation:

The Point File In TOP will read point data from various mesh and floating point data files including: .obj , .ply , .fits (astronomy format), and .exr . It can also load ASCII point files (.xyz , .pts , .csv , .txt , etc) with one point per line and comma or space separated fields.

You can make use of Cloudcompare to load .e57 files and export the pointcloud(s) in a supported format (mostly the ASCII point file formats).

cheers
Markus

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Thank you !