XYZ Converter
Plain text point lists, optionally with colour. Convert XYZ files into other formats, or write XYZ files from any supported input, all inside your browser.
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What is XYZ?
An XYZ file is one point per line: three coordinates, sometimes followed by RGB values. It has no faces and no header, which makes it trivially easy to generate from any script or measurement device.
Typical uses
- LiDAR and survey data
- Quick point dumps from scripts
- Vertex extraction
Supported by
- CloudCompare
- MeshLab
- AutoCAD
- QGIS
Format details
- Extensions
- .xyz, .pts
- Full name
- XYZ Point Cloud
- Category
- Point cloud
- Encoding
- Plain text
- MIME type
- text/plain
- Direction
- read and write
Questions
What is a .xyz file?
An XYZ file is one point per line: three coordinates, sometimes followed by RGB values. It has no faces and no header, which makes it trivially easy to generate from any script or measurement device.
Which applications use XYZ?
CloudCompare, MeshLab, AutoCAD, QGIS all work with .xyz files.
Are there limits with XYZ?
Point clouds carry no faces. Exporting a mesh to XYZ writes its vertices and discards the triangles.