This is a plugin for CloudCompare for reading 3D model files (meshes). It uses the Open Asset Import Library (Assimp).
Currently MeshIO supports reading the following formats:
Unfortunately, because of the way CloudCompare is set up, you have to build all of CloudCompare before you can build a plugin for it. So the first thing to do is to get the CloudCompare source and build CloudCompare.
Once you have it building properly:
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clone this repository into the
CloudCompare/plugins/privatedirectory:cd CloudCompare/plugins/private git clone --recursive https://github.com/asmaloney/MeshIO.git -
re-run CloudCompare's cmake
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turn on
PLUGIN-3rdParty_MESH_IOin the CloudCompare cmake options -
build CloudCompare
Note: If you are building for CloudCompare 2.11.x, use the tagged version of MeshIO at cloudcompare-2.11.x
As long as it is a format supported by Assimp, getting the basics implemented is fairly straightforward (a bunch of copy-paste).
For example, to add a new format "Foo":
- copy and rename the header & source file of an existing importer (e.g. glTF)
- add the header & source files to the appropriate
CMakeLists.txtfiles - change the
FilterInfoinfo in the constructor for the new format (details of the struct are found in CloudCompare's FileIOFilter.h) - theidshould start withMeshIOFooFilter::FooFilter() : // clang-format off mioAbstractLoader( { "MeshIO Foo Filter", FileIOFilter::DEFAULT_PRIORITY, QStringList{ "foo", "bar" }, "foo", QStringList{ "MeshIO - Foo file (*.foo *.bar)" }, QStringList(), Import } ) { }
- add the new importer to MeshIO::getFilters() in MeshIO.cpp:
ccIOPluginInterface::FilterList MeshIO::getFilters() { // clang-format off return { FileIOFilter::Shared( new COLLADAFilter ), FileIOFilter::Shared( new glTFFilter ), FileIOFilter::Shared( new IFCFilter ), FileIOFilter::Shared( new FooFilter ), // <-- }; }
- set the CMake variable in
CMakeLists.txtso that Assimp builds the format:set( ASSIMP_BUILD_FOO_IMPORTER TRUE CACHE INTERNAL "override ASSIMP flags" FORCE )
This should result in the basic geometry and materials being loaded.
You may need to massage the data a bit to make it suitable for working with in CloudCompare. For example the IFC importer cleans up some naming, and you might need to clean up object hierarchies. This can be done by overriding mioAbstractLoader::_postProcess().
Once you have it working, please consider contributing it using a pull request.
This plugin is using another library to read these file formats. There will be problems with some files (e.g. IFC-SPF is not 100% implemented). It also means that some mesh names might be lost when importing some formats.
Because this plugin is basically translating the Assimp data into something CloudCompare understands, it can be tricky to figure out where the problem lies since it could involve any or all of the three components.
If you find files that do not work as expected, please add an issue here and attach the smallest example you have that isn't working. I will try to assess where the problem lies and either report it to the Assimp project or CloudCompare project as necessary.
The icon is by qubodup (Public Domain).
This project is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause license - see LICENSE file for details.
Individual source files contain the following tag instead of the full license text:
SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
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