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Hi,

I'm trying to convert an ASCII .ply file (point cloud) to a binary .ply. However, even though the command line prompt says i'm successful, there is no resulting binary .ply file as output. The strange thing is that if i open up the file in CloudCompare gui interface, i can then save as a binary .ply without a problem. I cloned the repo to get the latest source, but that didn't work either. Anyone have suggestions?

CloudCompare -O dense_point_cloud.ply -C_EXPORT_FMT PLY -PLY_EXPORT_FMT BINARY_BE

To daniel, great work with this tool, it been really helpful!

Hi, by default if no action is performed, no file will be created. You have to explicitly tell CC to save the loaded cloud (with SAVE_CLOUDS).