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Thanks for the pointer towards Instant Meshes, that nearly does what I want. It nicely reduced a 100+mb model to just a few mb.
The issue is that the final output PLY or OBJ is monochrome ie it loses all color information.

I have the same issue with blender. When I import into blender my colorized ...

In the video on the cloudcompare home page 'How to subsample a point cloud and how to sample points on a mesh'--the example with the skull starting at ~4:20--my understanding was that he essentially simplified the mesh by reducing polygon count. Is that what was done, or is there another way of ...

I am interested in reducing the overall file size of a mesh (PLY) file.
The 'sample points on a mesh' tool appeared to successfully reduce the density of my mesh, but the file size remained the same. well over 100mb.
Is there a way, with cloudcompare or some other software, to essentially compress a ...