v.in.ply imports a vector map in PLY vector format. A PLY
file always holds a number of vertices which are imported as points. PLY
vertices can have a number of properties in addition to their
coordinates. These properties are stored in an attribute table. For
larger PLY files with many vertices (> 1000) it is highly recommended
to not use DBF as database driver, but SQLite (default in GRASS GIS 7),
PostgreSQL or MySQL, because the DBF driver is rather slow and can
consume a lot of memory. The database driver can be set with db.connect.
NOTES
v.in.ply is designed for large point clouds with the
possibility to have only coordinates, and no attribute table (for speed
reasons).