Licensing options for this format begin with FME Professional Edition.
The Pointools POD (POint Database) Reader/Writer allows FME to access data in the POD format.
POD files are the proprietary file type directly loaded by Pointools applications.
A POD file consists of:
- File version and basic structure
- Extended metadata
- Point cloud structure
- Point cloud channels
A single POD file contains a point cloud scene which contains one or more point clouds composed of at least a geometry channel and optionally intensity, RGB, classification, and normal data channels.
Note: Attributes in a POD file are stored at the scene level, not the point cloud level. That is, all point clouds in a scene will have the same attribute values.
Reader Overview
FME considers a single POD file to be a dataset. Each dataset contains one or more point cloud features.
Reading requires an installed, licensed Pointools application (version 1.x, 2.x).
Writer Overview
FME considers a dataset to be a folder name. The feature type of each dataset is the filename.