Industry Standard Formats:
E57, LAZ, LAS, RCP, PTS.
3D PDF and CAD formats (DWG, DXF) are not recommended to be used to export point clouds.
Not all formats support Structured scans (See below)
Not all formats support Classified Regions (See below)
Unstructured Scan:
All points are exported in a single cloud
Just the point cloud
No station information is exported
Structured/Gridded Scan (E57 and RCP):
All points are exported with a relationship to their stations
Station information can be determined
Not all exports need to be structured
- Exporting Classified Regions:
Classified Regions are only supported in the LAS or LAZ format
A consideration here is that these formats are not structured exports