Export vertices as ascii text

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Hi,
I have a large complex mesh derived from a laser scan in Wavefront .OBJ format, and need to get it out in some form of ascii text format to give me in effect a point cloud of the mesh vertices… anyone know how I might do this?

Sorry if the answer is very obvious… have been struggling.

Thanks

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Have you tried to open the OBJ-file with text editor? OBJ-files are saved either in text form or in binary form. (I guess usually they are in text form.) In case it is saved in text form, you’ll find the list of vertices in form:

# vertices:
# <b>v</b> x y z
v 0.0 0.0 0.0
v 1.0 0.0 0.0
v 1.0 1.1 0.0
v 0.0 1.0 0.0
# faces between vertices:
# <b>f</b> a b c d
f 1 2 3 4
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Aha! Thanks SnifiX… that looks like it might do it.
Cheers!