Reading a LAS file

Arpan:

I was trying to read a LAS file through MDL program to find out the x, y, z of the points in the file. I am working with version 1.1 LAS format.

I hadn't come across this particular TLA¹, so I Googled for 'LAS 1.1 format'. The first hit is the LAS 1.1 Format Standard. This tells you all you need to know about a LAS file to read it using C/C++, or any other language you care to use.

Arpan:

Can I read the LAS file like a normal file and get the coordinates of the points?

That depends on what you mean by read the LAS file like a normal file. It's a data file, of which you know the format. Your task is to write MDL or C++ code to parse that file into a list of DPoint3d coordinates. That task has little to do with MicroStation, and is more of a generic programming challenge.

Whether that's like reading a normal file depends, I suppose, on your definition of a normal file.

Regards, Jon Summers
LA Solutions

Footnote 1: TLA = Three Letter Acronym

Arpan:

I was trying to read a LAS file through MDL program to find out the x, y, z of the points in the file. I am working with version 1.1 LAS format.

I hadn't come across this particular TLA¹, so I Googled for 'LAS 1.1 format'. The first hit is the LAS 1.1 Format Standard. This tells you all you need to know about a LAS file to read it using C/C++, or any other language you care to use.

Arpan:

Can I read the LAS file like a normal file and get the coordinates of the points?

That depends on what you mean by read the LAS file like a normal file. It's a data file, of which you know the format. Your task is to write MDL or C++ code to parse that file into a list of DPoint3d coordinates. That task has little to do with MicroStation, and is more of a generic programming challenge.

Whether that's like reading a normal file depends, I suppose, on your definition of a normal file.

Regards, Jon Summers
LA Solutions

Footnote 1: TLA = Three Letter Acronym

Thanks Jon.....yeah after little bit of study i also got to know that it has nothing to do with the Microstation tools.

Its more generic programming. Anyway thanks for the insight.