# How to load e57 files in LidarView

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-load-e57-files-in-lidarview/17504
**Category:** LidarView, Lidar, and SLAM
**Created:** [April 1, 2026, 7:52pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-load-e57-files-in-lidarview/17504 "2026-04-01T19:52:24Z")
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### Author: ![rowan](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e99b99/32.png) [@rowan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/rowan)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2026, 7:52pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-load-e57-files-in-lidarview/17504/1 "2026-04-01T19:52:24Z")

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I’m trying to load an e57 file in LidarView and I can’t figure out which reader to use. I’ve tried a couple of them, like the default AVS UCD Reader: I don’t get any errors but I can’t see anything loaded.

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2026, 7:39am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-load-e57-files-in-lidarview/17504/2 "2026-04-02T07:39:09Z")

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This should be readable by the pdal reader but a quick try with ParaView doesnt seem to work, please open an issue (in ParaView).

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### Author: ![rowan](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e99b99/32.png) [@rowan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/rowan)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2026, 4:54pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-load-e57-files-in-lidarview/17504/3 "2026-04-02T16:54:34Z")

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Thanks, here’s a link to the new topic: [Opening e57 files using the pdal reader - ParaView Support - ParaView](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/opening-e57-files-using-the-pdal-reader/17506)

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### Author: ![Gatien\_Ferret](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/gatien_ferret/32/9789_2.png) [@Gatien\_Ferret](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Gatien_Ferret)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2026, 5:14am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-load-e57-files-in-lidarview/17504/4 "2026-04-03T05:14:23Z")

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Hi @rowan , if you have a local build you should enable Xerces in the build. When I do, BunnyDouble.e57 file from [E57 Data Examples](http://www.libe57.org/data.html) loads correctly with the PDAL reader.  
We should probably consider include this in the binaries

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### Author: ![rowan](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e99b99/32.png) [@rowan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/rowan)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2026, 4:59pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-load-e57-files-in-lidarview/17504/5 "2026-04-03T16:59:47Z")

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I’ve got a build compiled with both PDAL and xerces superbuild options and now I’m getting these errors when I try to load my e57 file:  
ERROR: In vtkPDALReader.cxx, line 87  
vtkPDALReader (00000131E20D6BC0): Cannot open file C:\Users\raw17\Downloads\bunnyDouble.e57

ERROR: In vtkExecutive.cxx, line 730  
vtkPVCompositeDataPipeline (00000131E25EFEC0): Algorithm vtkPDALReader (00000131E20D6BC0) returned failure for request: vtkInformation (00000131E2CDA420)  
Debug: Off  
Modified Time: 1587610  
Reference Count: 1  
Registered Events: (none)  
Request: REQUEST\_DATA  
FORWARD\_DIRECTION: 0  
ALGORITHM\_AFTER\_FORWARD: 1  
FROM\_OUTPUT\_PORT: 0

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### Author: ![rowan](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e99b99/32.png) [@rowan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/rowan)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2026, 5:54pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-load-e57-files-in-lidarview/17504/6 "2026-04-15T17:54:57Z")

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Solution was posted in this thread:  
[OpenXR errors when using XRInterface in Lidarview - VR/AR - ParaView](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/openxr-errors-when-using-xrinterface-in-lidarview/17497/6)