I'm struggling with a file, it's a cristal laser point cloud file i got after i made my face in cristal glass.. They send me the file but i had no extension. I called them and the said it was a cad file. But what ever i tried i never got it open. I'm working on a Mac and got Cinema 4D R20. And i want to get in there and i don't know how.. I also tried Meshlab and some other convert programs but with no success.

Can anybody help me out to get it open. I saw there werewolf got a same sort of file i wil show you a piece of my file

0 31 8 0 '' 0 591 ZKONST 1 BCOD 856 ABXY 0.120 ABZ 0.120 0 528 0 167 0 591 ZKONST -9.960 0 530 7 0 501 10.691 -0.679 -9.933 0 501 10.946 -0.594 -9.867 0 501 10.776 -0.594 -9.950 0 501 10.691 -0.509 -9.867 0 501 10.607 -0.594 -9.975 0 501 10.437 -0.594 -9.872 0 501 10.522 -0.679 -9.940 0 531 0 591 ZKONST -9.840 0 530 4 0 501 12.813 0.255 -9.827 0 501 10.522 -0.509 -9.829 0 501 11.031 -0.509 -9.811 0 501 11.201 -0.509 -9.741 0 531 0 591 ZKONST -9.720 0 530 9 0 501 14.680 0.764 -9.667 0 501 12.982 0.255 -9.662 0 501 10.607 -0.424 -9.680 0 501 10.776 -0.424 -9.702 0 501 10.946 -0.424 -9.697 0 501 11.116 -0.424 -9.665 0 501 11.285 -0.424 -9.620 0 501 10.861 -0.679 -9.704 0 501 11.116 -0.594 -9.701

etc etc

Can anybody tell me what kind of file it is and how to get it in Cinema 4D via a conversion or whatever... If someone what the whole file they can get it... I hope someone can help me

Thank you

You can try and open the file in one of the free cad softwares like OpenCad LibreCad or FreeCad and then try and export the file into a .dxf or an .stl file which is used for 3D printing from doing a search just on google for "ZKONST 1 BCOD 856 ABXY" seems this is not the usual type of Cad file and is problematic not enough other info on the file type

Thanks lobo3433 im gonna try but i must give the file a extension .pst of whatever

What software/hardware were they using to create the point cloud? It seems a little odd that there was no file extension at all, which seems to indicate it is a raw point cloud data. These need to be converted to an indexed file format before they can be opened in any software. You can try simply adding a particular indexed extension to it and it "could" possibly work in some software.

HI there LuxXeon, yeah i tried several extensions but with no luck..

That's probably because certain file extensions are associated with a particular point cloud type. There are two main point cloud types, each with their own indexed file associations. For example, geographic LiDAR point cloud data is commonly associated with .xyz file format types. If you try to use a .pcd file extension, it likely will not open in certain software. I'd recommend asking what kind of scanner was used to create the point cloud. Once you have that information, you can more easily decipher what type of extension will work with the data.

Yes your right LuxXeon if been search on google and found a similar question and similar file so i think its a David-Lasersanner file Here is the old forum i found: http://forum.david-3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=1335

The system that etches the 3D points in the glass may be using a rotating mirror so these may be spherical coordinates. (Some values may be angles rather than distances). You might post this on the CloudCompare forum. Daniel is the developer and checks in there all the time so you could get a direction to go in fairly quickly.

Yeah I already did but this old forum this closed and intergraded in hp form. Inhope the Guy is still in there.

Were you ever able to solve this issue? Just curious how you did with it.

Nope they couldn't help me out. They said its a very old file and that they could not read or write it.

I post my question also on the CloudCompare website like cjd said now i has eto wait hopefully they can help me out..