I just tried to import a large (700MB) binary PLY file and Blender has been working on it for a couple hours. I need something faster. Does anyone know a way to efficiently import really large meshes into Blender? Is there a binary API I can use to write an import plugin in C/C++, or is there a technique to move large datasets through the Python API without creating a logjam?
There was a fellow, a while back, who wrote a script to interpret the data set for the moon’s surface. He had to deal with a large dataset. Perhaps you can locate that script for tips?
#Script by ValterVB
#Italian blog: http://moonmaplab.blogspot.com/
#Web site (Work in progress): https://sites.google.com/site/moonmaplab/home