Dear Morphometricians, Thank you for the positive response, I'm happy to know I am not alone in using this machine! My SOS plea has been answered, and the spanner removed from the works... The latest update of 'Landmark' now supports the binary .ply files, which is great news! (The result of pointing out a problem with someone's software- Thanks David!) Also great, because the headache of converting .ply files was too much indeed (Thank you My sources tell me that OptoCAT new edition produces more refined .ply files, and has fixed alot of the bugs you may be familiar with, but for now my version works O.K.(fingers-crossed)!
For those who were interested, the machine is being used to creat 3D scans of mouse skulls, and with a coating of chalk powder (to reduce transparency), its working very well. Thank you all, Emma Sherratt > -----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 > > -- Regards, Emma Sherratt -- Replies will be sent to the list. For more information visit http://www.morphometrics.org
