title: Converting from .ply to .pcd format
body: <p>I have a .ply file and I want to convert it to a .pcd format but not exactly sure how.</p>
  
  <p>I have tried the methods described by the op here <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51350493/convertion-of-ply-format-to-pcd-format">Convertion of .ply format to .pcd format</a> but they are not sufficient/doesn't work anymore.</p>
  
  <p>when I try to open the .ply file its just a binary file  except the header which looks something like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>ply
  format binary_little_endian 1.0
  comment generated by Cartographer
  element vertex 000000207134849
  property float x
  property float y
  property float z
  property uchar red
  property uchar green
  property uchar blue
  property float intensity
  end_header
  bf/B¿ğBè)¿...
  ...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thus I don't evet know where to start the conversion.</p>
  
  <p>How do I do the conversion ?</p>
  
  <p>Any method/doc would really help</p>