# how to use paraview PDAL las reader
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-use-paraview-pdal-las-reader/2349
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [August 2, 2019, 3:44am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-use-paraview-pdal-las-reader/2349 "2019-08-02T03:44:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@seasonsfx](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/seasonsfx)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2019, 3:44am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-use-paraview-pdal-las-reader/2349/1 "2019-08-02T03:44:02Z")
I noticed that since paraview version 5.6.0, PDAL point cloud reader has been added.But when I use paraview to open a las file, it seems still using libLAS reader to load the file, which only give me the color and intensity attribution in the las file(the file itself contains attiributions like classification, time etc.). Like described in [this article](https://blog.kitware.com/reading-point-cloud-lidar-data-in-paraview-vtk/)
I wonder how to use the PDLA reader to load the las file and get all arributions in the las file to paraview. Thanks
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2019, 7:06am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-use-paraview-pdal-las-reader/2349/2 "2019-08-02T07:06:04Z")
You have to build ParaView and then build the plugin in the article. It has not been integrated in ParaView (yet).
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### Author:  [@seasonsfx](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/seasonsfx)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2019, 7:19am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-use-paraview-pdal-las-reader/2349/3 "2019-08-02T07:19:54Z")
I’ll try building, hope it will soon be intergrated
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2019, 7:24am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-use-paraview-pdal-las-reader/2349/4 "2019-08-02T07:24:23Z")
That is not planned currently as this would require a founding effort.