GRASS GIS manual: v.in.ply

NAME

v.in.ply - Creates a vector map from a PLY file.

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SYNOPSIS

v.in.ply

v.in.ply --help

v.in.ply [-tbp] input=name output=name [x=integer] [y=integer] [z=integer] [--overwrite] [--help] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--ui]

Flags:

-t: Do not create attribute table
-b: Do not build topology
-p: Only print PLY element types and their properties.
--overwrite: Allow output files to overwrite existing files
--help: Print usage summary
--verbose: Verbose module output
--quiet: Quiet module output
--ui: Force launching GUI dialog

Parameters:

input=name [required]: Name of input file to be imported; '-' for standard input
output=name [required]: Name for output vector map
x=integer: Number of vertex property used as x coordinate; First vertex property is 1; Default: 1
y=integer: Number of vertex property used as y coordinate; First vertex property is 1; Default: 2
z=integer: Number of vertex property used as z coordinate; First vertex property is 1. If 0, z coordinate is not used; Default: 3

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DESCRIPTION

v.in.ply imports a vector map in PLY vector format. A PLY 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 (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 db.connect.