Dear Dr. Sherratt, We have used the .ply format for years with the Cyberware 3-D scanners and our software reads it. I am not familiar with OptoScan though. My lead software engineer indicates that while we support many/most of the variants we know about, ply is really a very loose format with lots of possible variations. He said he would have to verify that our software supports whatever variant OptoCAT produces. Our software called INTEGRATE is free, but you have to read the manual and ideally have training to use it effectively. If you want to send us a scan file we can see if we can read it for you and let you know. We also have a version of the commercial software called Polyworks by Innovmetric which reads and translates ply files and we can try it as well. My contact information is listed below.
Kath Kathleen M. Robinette, Ph.D. Principal Research Anthropologist Air Force Research Laboratory AFRL/HEPA 2800 Q Street Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7947 (937) 255-8810 DSN 785-8810 FAX (937) 255-2019 e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: morphmet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 8:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: OptoCAT 3D scanning software and .ply files Dear Morphometricians, I am working on a 3D scanner system called OptoSCAN developed by Breuckmann, Meersburg Germany. Firstly, I would appreciate any contact with people who have used/are currently using one of these systems. The software that comes with the system is called OptoCAT, and once merging all the single images into a 3D dataset, the output file is a .ply file (polygon file format). I understand that .ply files come in binary - little endian 1.0 format, and ASCII 1.0 format. The OptoCAT application exports in binary format, and these .ply files crash my .ply viewer (SunXi viewer) and the Landmark application (developed by the Institute for Data Analysis and Visualization (IDAV)) that apparently reads .ply files. Has anyone got experience working in 3D, specifically with .ply files. Or has anyone used this OptoCAT software? Suggestions please! Thanks, -- Regards, Emma Sherratt Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester -- Replies will be sent to the list. For more information visit http://www.morphometrics.org -- Replies will be sent to the list. For more information visit http://www.morphometrics.org
