Point Cloud Visualizer

by Jakub Uhlík in Addons


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  • PGSimulation
    4 months ago

    I am after the first test of use and it is a huge leap of comfort to work on point clouds with geometry nodes without even intensity color in workbench. performance wise also very good no problem can model objects at 140mln points without even octree on R5 3600 and RTX3060 12GB
    will be used for modelling large-scale virtual world projects so will probably write further experiences

  • Tweaklab
    7 months ago

    Excellent extension. The only issue I had was installing the dependencies on linux. Modern distributions do not allow system wide pip installs anymore. Thus I had to create a virtual environment and add it to the blender python path. A possible workaround might be to call pip with --user.

    • Jakub Uhlík

      7 months ago

      thanks a lot!
      you don't have to install libraries if you don't need their functionality and you don't have to install them manually. libraries can be installed directly from inside blender, preferences > addons > pcv, with a button for each one of them. they are indeed installed with pip and to user site-packages and install operator as well ensures that tested and compatible version of library is installed. for more info: https://jakubuhlik.com/docs/pcv/docs.html#libraries-optional-libraries
      i am limited here to one reply, please write me a message with Ask a Question button if you have some more comments.
      cheers

  • etvr
    12 months ago

    i use pointclouds daily, this addon is one of the two tools i cannot do without. it is that good.

  • Brahm Boelee
    over 1 year ago

    Amazing tool! I was trying to batch merge plys and they added a feature to do it! Couldn't be happier!

  • kitbukoros
    almost 2 years ago

    Superb tool, and excellent support from developer!

  • Bad Gateway
    almost 2 years ago

    rly expansive and well developed plug-in and Jakub offers very thoughtful support , he even added some simple functionality I requested to his to-do list

  • Clement Valla
    about 2 years ago

    Great addon. Thanks so much Jakub.

  • Maciej
    over 2 years ago

    Works great. Now I can handle .pts directly in Blender. Good job Jakub. Thank you!

  • Larry Whittington
    almost 3 years ago

    Wonderful plugin, works as promised, but the extras menu that needs the open3d download fails to load. Could you please look into this.

    • Jakub Uhlík

      almost 3 years ago

      hello, can you please try to install open3d in blender 2.92? in 2.93 there was python version change and unfortunately there is no required open3d version package to download for python version in 2.93. i know about it and i am going to upgrade open3d version to latest soon, so this problem will be fixed. if it does not work for some other reason, please write me using Product Support button, because here i am limited to single response. thanks!

  • Step C
    almost 3 years ago

    Point clouds coming from laser scanned data I have are not properly visible. Talking with the author of PCV seems like there are some issues most likely related to this type of scanner I am using, also because with other point clouds I tested it works just great (especially with photoscans). With data coming from a Riegl VZ400 there is Continuous clipping and missing parts at some view angles. When I switch to camera view the point cloud disappears completely and then I cannot navigate in the viewport. Also I am not able to work fluidly, adding objects or more point clouds. Even adjusting viewport and camera clipping options/limits, problems stay the same.
    If someone else experiences these issues please bear in mind that they could be related also to graphic card compatibility, but I am not sure of this 100% by now because I haven't tested these data on another machine so far

    • Jakub Uhlík

      almost 3 years ago

      Hi,
      It's a pity you did not contact me for support first..
      From what are you describing, your "continuous clipping and missing parts at some view angles" is blender viewport clip limits setting is too small for your data dimensions: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/dev/editors/3dview/sidebar.html#view-panel and "switch to camera view the point cloud disapper completely" and "Rendering appears to be blank" is the same thing, this time for camera view: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/dev/render/cameras.html#lens
      Also, your issue with "adding objects or more point clouds", any blender object can contain PCV instance, so adding another Empty object to scene and loading another ply file is all it takes.
      Please, if you have some more issues, use Product Support button to send me a message, some screenshots and anything that is needed so i can help you.
      Thanks

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Published almost 4 years ago
Blender Version 4.0, 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1, 3.0, 2.93, 2.92, 2.91, 2.9, 2.83, 2.82, 2.81
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