paraview might be another option: http://www.paraview.org/

I haven't tried it for scan data processing, but it deals with a lot of
different formats:
http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Users_Guide/List_of_readers#CSV_Reader


in case of other mesh processing needs, this article gives a nice
description of some open-source tools out there:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2039808/


On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Diogo Girondi <[email protected]>wrote:

> Wow! Thanks once again Nathan.
>
> I owe you a few beers!
>
>
> cheers,
> diogo
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Nathan Rusch <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>   Just to be sure, I tried importing it and it does work. There seems to
>> be an issue with loading it as .xyz (presumably due to some format
>> differences), but .pts seems to work just fine.
>>
>> -Nathan
>>
>>
>>  *From:* Diogo Girondi <[email protected]>
>> *Sent:* Monday, June 04, 2012 6:13 PM
>> *To:* Nuke user discussion <[email protected]>
>> *Subject:* Re: [Nuke-users] Point Cloud from CSV files
>>
>> Thanks a lot Nathan, that solves everything I guess. I'll give a second
>> chance to Meshlab and look into partio tomorrow.
>>
>>
>> cheers,
>> diogo
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Nathan Rusch 
>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>>   Hey Diogo,
>>>
>>> He says partio will load that no problem, though you may need to change
>>> the extension to .xyz or .pts.
>>>
>>> -Nathan
>>>
>>>
>>>  *From:* Diogo Girondi <[email protected]>
>>> *Sent:* Monday, June 04, 2012 5:57 PM
>>>  *To:* Nuke user discussion <[email protected]>
>>> *Subject:* Re: [Nuke-users] Point Cloud from CSV files
>>>
>>>  Hi Nathan,
>>>
>>> Awesome! Here is the link for the sample file I have.
>>>
>>> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1269832/LIDAR/PTS.zip
>>>
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> diogo
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Nathan Rusch 
>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>>   partio4maya is being developed by one of our FX TDs. The LIDAR
>>>> formats it loads currently are tab/space delimited, but he says it wouldn’t
>>>> be too hard to add a loader for CSV if you’re willing to send a simple
>>>> example file.
>>>>
>>>> -Nathan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  *From:* Diogo Girondi <[email protected]>
>>>> *Sent:* Monday, June 04, 2012 5:42 PM
>>>> *To:* Nuke user discussion <[email protected]>
>>>> *Subject:* Re: [Nuke-users] Point Cloud from CSV files
>>>>
>>>>  It seems Meshlab reads everything except Lidar CSV files. I'll have
>>>> to look into partio4maya tomorrow when I have access to Maya.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks again Deke.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>> diogo
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Diogo Girondi 
>>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks a lot Deke, I'll take a look at meshlab right away.
>>>>>
>>>>> cheers,
>>>>> diogo
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Deke Kincaid <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Meshlab can load most Lidar file formats, mesh them and write out an
>>>>>> obj.  It also does a really good job at decimating the mesh to
>>>>>> something more usable for Nuke.
>>>>>> http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Also there is partio4maya beta which can load a bunch of different
>>>>>> lidar file formats(xyz, etc..).  You could write out an fbx point
>>>>>> cloud(locators) and load it into Nuke.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://vimeo.com/38937783
>>>>>> https://github.com/redpawfx/partio/downloads
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -deke
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Diogo Girondi <
>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> > Hi,
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Anyone has any idea of how to generate a point cloud in Nuke from
>>>>>> CSV files
>>>>>> > from a Lidar scanner?
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I could parse the CSV files and generate one Axis for each point,
>>>>>> but Nuke
>>>>>> > would most likely implode half-way trough the first file.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Thanks in advance.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > cheers,
>>>>>> > diogo
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
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