Stanford PLY

Reference

Category

Import-Export

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File ‣ Import/Export ‣ Stanford (.ply)

Warning

Only one mesh can be exported at a time.

Properties

Import

The import does not have any properties.

Export

Include

Selection Only

Todo.

Transform

Forward / Up

Since many applications use a different axis for ‘Up’, these are axis conversion for these settings, Forward and Up axes – By mapping these to different axes you can convert rotations between applications default up and forward axes.

Blender uses Y Forward, Z Up (since the front view looks along the +Y direction). For example, its common for applications to use Y as the up axis, in that case -Z Forward, Y Up is needed.

Scale

TODO.

Geometry

Apply Modifiers

Export objects using the evaluated mesh, meaning the resulting mesh after all Modifiers have been calculated.

Normals

Todo.

UVs

Todo.

Vertex Colors

Todo.

Usage

Use the operator to import ASCII or binary PLY-files, you can select multiple files at once. For exporting, you can choose to enable or disable the modifiers during the export and you can choose which data you want to export (UV textures, Color Attributes, …).