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I suggest using the pcl_converter tool that I have committed recently, it allows to convert between multiple formats easily:

Available formats types for SOURCE and DEST:
           OBJ (Wavefront)
           PCD (Point Cloud Library)
           PLY (Polygon File Format)
           STL (STereoLithography)
           VTK (The Visualization Toolkit)

As for the creation of a mesh starting from a point cloud, this is not a conversion but rather a creation. The process of connecting points of a point cloud by faces is called triangulation, mesh reconstruction, meshing.

You will find more information in the PCL tutorials, greedy triangulation is a good start.