Does cc support polyline visualization?

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jgrn307
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Does cc support polyline visualization?

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I was curious: do CC allow the visualization of some sort of 3-d polyline format? If so, what formats are supported? I'm trying to bring a line network into cc to visualize along with a point cloud. Thanks!
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Re: Does cc support polyline visualization?

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The ".poly" format is the simplest one (just one vertex of the polyline on each line as 'X Y Z').

Otherwise you have more complicated formats such as SHP, DXF, etc.
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Re: Does cc support polyline visualization?

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What exactly is the most important difference between those formats by the way?
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Re: Does cc support polyline visualization?

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Poly is really simple and can only store polylines (no color, no other types of entities, etc.). While DXF and SHP are much more evolved (and used by a bunch of other applications).
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