ASCII (XYZ) to LAS

[KlausB__Vestergaard]

Thank you for implementing LAS Dataset and the new toolbar.

Since the new tools only supports LAS files, I need a tool to convert ASCII to LAS, so large ascii files containing xyz can be handled in a efficiant manner?

When I Google "ASCII to LAS" I get some very interesting hits, but I'm unsure where to start ....

[AntonLarsson]

This is the error i get with LasTools.

/ Anton

[XanderBakker]

That's not much information... Would it be possible to share (a small part) of the information?

[AntonLarsson]

it worked one time.

I didn't know i could make the error window bigger, when i did it said error: no input

Then i tried change file-"format" in the input window. (see picture)

Then I managed to run it successfully twice but then the same problem appeared.

EDIT: It seems like it's necessary to have the input-file on the same drive as ArcGIS

[XanderBakker]

So you made it work. I'm glad you could fix it!

[AntonLarsson]

Yes, Thank you. 

I think that the problem was just that i have two drives on my laptop. The input file needs to be on the same drive as ArcGIS. The parse string i used for my ascii file (see above) was cxzy. It worked fine.

Thanks for all support,

Anton

[Anonymous User]

@ClaytonCrawford we still need to convert TXT to LAS, any chance this  could be prioritized with Pro 2.9. If so we can finally lay ArcMap to rest?

[ClaytonCrawford]

I don't think we every had a supported tool in ArcMap to do that conversion. A sample utility perhaps. We don't get many requests for this so it's hard to justify prioritizing a new tool for it in 2.9. Would a command line exe callable from a script based GP too suffice?

[Anonymous User]

Hi Clayton.

Basically, I'm asking to have ASCII Text To LAS from 3D Sample Tools implemented in Pro ;o)

LAZ to zLAS and zLAS to LAZ are already part of Convert LAS so I was hoping that ASCII Text To LAS could be implemented in Conversion Tools/LAS?

Regards, Klaus