Blast2dem64 pcs.csv file path bug

[ncwil...@gmail.com]

I believe I found an issue with blast2dem64. It's trying to find the pcs.csv file in a folder that doesn't exist with the regular install. Works fine if I either use blast2dem or create the file path shown in the warning and copy the pcs.csv over there. 

Here is what I'm trying to run:

C:\lastools\bin\blast2dem64.exe -i LAZ_TINTEST\*.laz -step 2 -keep_extended_class 2 40 -kill 100 -o LAZ_TINTEST_C40_C2_TIN.tif -odir GridChecks_LAZ_TINTEST -merged

It fails to create an output tif, this is what I see printed out to the command prompt:

terrain finalization (using 2d quadtree) to level 8 with empty 0.
WARNING: cannot open [C:\lastools\bin\serf\blast\serf\geo\pcs.csv]. please check your installation.
ERROR: unknown EPSG code in '-epsg 6333'.
have bounding box. first pass not needed.
second pass: populating finalization counter grid ...
second pass: done. created 47449 leaf grid cells and stored 47449 sprinkle points
spfinalizer: needed 53.665 seconds
created parent grid cells (new total is 63953 cells)
third pass: using finalization grid to spatially finalize 6092542 points...
output precision is float ...
third pass: done. stored at most 8238972 chunked points (plus 47449 sprinkle points)
spfinalizer: needed 60.379 seconds
duplicate_points 11404
spdelaunay2d: needed 60.27 seconds
read 6092542 points. produced TIN with 6081138 vertices and 12162225 triangles
WARNING: set nverts 6092542 but v_count 6081138

[Jochen Rapidlasso]

Hi,

we can not confirm this issue.

Did you use the latest version?

What is the excact console output if you use the "-v" argument?

It should start with something like:

LAStools BLAST blast2dem (by ...@rapidlasso.de) version 250304 (demo only)
llx/lly unspecified. set to lower left bounding box 476940/4.36647e+06.
terrain finalization (using 2d quadtree) to level 6 with empty 0.

...

Cheers,

Jochen @rapidlasso

[ncwil...@gmail.com]

Hi Jochen, 

I just grabbed the most recent LAStools release, below is the console output. Different set of sample tiles than the previous test I did, so now it is looking for the vertcs.csv. 

D:\_test>blast2dem64 -i *.las -keep_extended_class 1 2 9 40 -kill 100 -merged -odir _grids -o test_out.tif -v
LAStools BLAST blast2dem (by in...@rapidlasso.de) version 250304 (commercial)
step size was unspecified. set to 1.
llx/lly unspecified. set to lower left bounding box 452500/8.723e+06.

terrain finalization (using 2d quadtree) to level 8 with empty 0.

have bounding box. first pass not needed.
second pass: populating finalization counter grid ...

WARNING: cannot open [C:\LASTools\bin\serf\blast\serf\geo\vertcs.csv]. please check your installation.
ERROR: unknown vertical EPSG code in '-vertical_epsg 9001'.
second pass: done. created 51223 leaf grid cells and stored 51223 sprinkle points
spfinalizer: needed 3.375 seconds
created parent grid cells (new total is 68582 cells)
third pass: using finalization grid to spatially finalize 14323830 points...

output precision is float ...

third pass: done. stored at most 19525842 chunked points (plus 51223 sprinkle points)
spfinalizer: needed 12.46 seconds
duplicate_points 102
spdelaunay2d: needed 12.456 seconds
read 14323830 points. produced TIN with 14323728 vertices and 28647341 triangles
WARNING: set nverts 14323830 but v_count 14323728
took 15.883 sec to create '_grids\test_out.tif'.

[LAStools - efficient tools for LiDAR processing]

Hi,

thanks for the additional info. Finally we could fix this problem.

Please download this fix 

    https://downloads.rapidlasso.de/beta/bin_serf_blast.zip

and replace the files in \LAStools\bin\blast\serf with the new files.

Thanks,

Jochen @rapidlasso