How to import 2 points connected with a Polyline

[AnaRhisT]

Hello,

I'm trying to visualize if a polyline between two points intersects with the mesh I imported.

Using this guide: http://www.cloudcompare.org/doc/wiki/in ... st_picking

I wasn't able to import two points with a polyline, what it does when importing the file w/ the points (I'm dragging it into the scene) is opening a dialog window called 'Open Ascii File', I press 'Apply', it creates a "my_file_name.txt" object and a child that is called "picking_list1", and when I visualize it - I don't see any points.

Shouldn't it create two children and call them "2D label: Point #0" and "2D label: Point #1"? I also tried dragging this "picking_list1" object as a child of the 'Mesh' object that I imported, but it doesn't help.

[daniel]

If you want to import two points as a polyline, you can simply rename your file '.poly'.

Otherwise you can load them as a standard cloud (by keeping the txt/pts/csv/asc extension), but then you'll have to make the points very big to be able to see them, and you'll have to use the Point List picking tool to make them a polyline...