PointCloud cast to C++ object

[Terry_Chappell]

I changed the initial Rhino Plugin and am able to pass pointclouds back and forth between Python script and C++ DLL using the serial number of the pointcloud. The details are in the listings of my scripts (Python and C++) here:

Can point clouds be merged? Or anything else to make them lighter?

Arthur, The first pass of the script is done and posted below. When using it to make 32 point clouds and then merge these into one, I noticed the peak memory usage can be over 20 GB when the full 238M point pointcloud is created. This comes down to 12 GB or so when a Skip factor of 2 is used on the larger files (>200MB); this makes a 122M point pointcloud. If you run the script more than once, the amount of memory Rhino uses increases. So if you want to try using it to make the full 238M point …

Not sure if this helps you as this is from a Rhino pointcloud in Python using Rhinocommon to a Rhino pointcloud in C++ using the C++ SDK. You want to go from a .NET pointcloud to C++. Could you do this by first transforming the .NET pointcloud to a Rhinocommon pointcloud in Python and then going to C++ land?

I like the combination of Python & C++ DLL because I can use all the rs.stuff and Rhinocommon in Python to interface with the user and create Eto Forms and then get the fantastic performance of parallel execution inside C++ to do the heavy lifting. Now I can work with 6.6GB pointclouds with 1/4 billion points in under 15 sec for import, combining and coloring which is a 7th heaven for me.

Regards,
Terry.