Potree getting started tutorial

Potree is a WebGL based viewer for large point clouds.It is free and open source to enable anyone to view, analyze and publicly share their large datasets. (http://potree.org/)

Download PotreeConverter from this site:
https://github.com/potree/PotreeConverter/

Unzip the PotreeConverter and run it like this, example:
PotreeConverter.exe D:\lasfile.las -o c:\xampp\tomcat\webapps\examples\potreeTest\ --generate-page testpage

If you get an error message that the dll msvcp140.dll is missing when you try to run the converter then you have to download an install the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 from this site:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=48145

For me it didn't work to download it with Chrome so I had to download it through IE.

To view the files you have to put them on a webserver. You can for example use XAMPP:

https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html

Or if you have Python on your computer you can use Pythons SimpleHTTPServer:

1. Open the command prompt

2. CD to the directory you wish to have accessible via browsers and HTTP:

Ex: cd d:\temp\httptest

3. Start the server:

Ex (I have Python in my ArcGIS directory):

"c:\Program Files (x86)\Python27\ArcGIS10.3\python" -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080

Then you can look at the generated web page in a browser, ex:

More images from my little example: