Hi, recently I've been just getting into Houdini and I'm having an issue importing .ply file to Houdini. The .ply file is a point cloud scan of an environment from the LUMA AI app. I am currently working in Houdini 19.5.752 and Mac OS 13.5.1. Any ideas what causes the issue? Other files like .OBJ seem to be working just fine.

Can you post the first 15 or so lines from the file?

Already got it solved. Thank you!

I have the same issue. May I ask how you solved it? Thank you

Same exact error message as OP. Driving me crazy, the ply loads fine in Blender/Meshroom/Cloudcompare. I re-exported it both as bin and ascii from Blender, even turning off every option like UVs and vertex colors.

Tested both in 21.0.440 and 20.5.613 on macos Tahoe.

Here is the file header (reexported version from Blender)

ply
format binary_little_endian 1.0
comment Created in Blender version 4.3.0 Release Candidate
element vertex 180268
property float x
property float y
property float z
end_header

If you can, please send the file to support so that it can be investigated.