Converting from .ply to .pcd format

Question

I have a .ply file and I want to convert it to a .pcd format but not exactly sure how.

I have tried the methods described by the op here Convertion of .ply format to .pcd format but they are not sufficient/doesn't work anymore.

when I try to open the .ply file its just a binary file except the header which looks something like this:

ply
format binary_little_endian 1.0
comment generated by Cartographer
element vertex 000000207134849
property float x
property float y
property float z
property uchar red
property uchar green
property uchar blue
property float intensity
end_header
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...

Thus I don't evet know where to start the conversion.

How do I do the conversion ?

Any method/doc would really help

Answer 1

I Haven't tried, but something seems to be available in Ubuntu distributions probably doing sudo apt install pcl-tools:

• pcl_ply2pcd http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/focal/man1/pcl_ply2pcd.1.html
• pcl_pcd2ply http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/focal/man1/pcl_pcd2ply.1.html