pointcloud_conversions
- Software
- Perception
- Tool
A ROS 2 Humble package with three utilities for capturing point clouds and converting or reframing PLY and XYZ point-cloud files between coordinate frames.
Source on GitHub: github.com/li9i/pointcloud-conversions (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 189f36c (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- MIT (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (MIT) at commit 189f36c (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Captures a point cloud from a topic and stores it in .ply or .obj format.
- Transforms a .ply file from one frame of reference into a .xyz file in another frame.
- Transforms a .xyz file from one frame of reference into a .ply file in another frame.
- Built with colcon and installed with rosdep dependencies.
- Launch files are provided for each of the three utilities.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 189f36c.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Hardware it needs, as the project states it
- Requires ROS 2 Humble and the Open3D Python library, installed with pip3, for the pointcloud_to_ply utility.
- How to start
- The project's README (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Active: a commit in the last 90 days
- Newest commit
- 28 Jul 2026 on humble-devel
- Latest release
- None published on GitHub
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
Links
Robots that can run it
No robot on Robotheca is linked to it yet. Links come from a robot's robot.yaml, from its dependency files read as text, or from Robotheca's editors.
Robotheca lists software as a reference: nothing is hosted or run here, and every fact links to where it was read.