LASIO Plugin

This is a plugin for CloudCompare to add LAS file 1.3 reading & writing based on LASzip and libLAS.

It bascially forks the old LAS file handling before CloudCompare moved to using PDAL and puts it in a plugin.

Versions

I compile using:

• LASzip master from 23 Feb 2016 (ff16991b) (later versions have breaking changes)
• libLAS master from 19 Jan 2019 (09d45518) with one small change in src/CMakeFiles.txt:

add_library(las SHARED ${LIBLAS_SOURCES})
add_library(las_c SHARED ${LIBLAS_C_SOURCES})

to link statically:

add_library(las STATIC ${LIBLAS_SOURCES})
add_library(las_c STATIC ${LIBLAS_C_SOURCES})

Adding To CloudCompare

• clone and build LASzip and libLAS
• clone this repository in the CloudCompare/plugins/private directory
• rerun CloudCompare's cmake
• turn on PLUGIN-3rdParty_LAS_IO in your cmake options
• set the LIBLAS_* options to point at your libLAS build

Note: If you are building for CloudCompare 2.11.x, use the tagged version at cloudcompare-2.11.x

License

This project as a whole is licensed under the GPL-2.0-or-later license - see the LICENSE file for details.

Individual source files may contain the following tag instead of the full license text:

SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later

Using SPDX enables machine processing of license information based on the SPDX License Identifiers and makes it easier for developers to see at a glance which license they are dealing with.