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Quiz – which version of Revit was the last one to include ‘in product’ indexing of point clouds? Answer – Revit 2018 included AdPointCloudIndexer.exe, which could be used to index an array of raw poin…
It is extremely easy to reduce the size of a point cloud dataset using Recap. “Decimation” is the process of discarding points from the data to improve performance and reduce disk usage. With the rele…
Going back in time, there was 123D Catch and related processing engines. Basically, it was a tool that took photos and turned them into something real in 3D. There was also something called Remake. No…
There are a whole lot of paid and open source tools out there for photogrammetry (turning photos into 3D models), and it is easy to get lost. I found a very detailed post by Jesse over at We Did Stuff…
Revit doesn’t like big numbers. There, I said it. So when dealing with ‘world’ coordinates in a point cloud, sometimes things just don’t work too well. I thought I had this all solved recently by usin…
I got a virtual tap on the shoulder from Brian Nickel over at The Revit Saver today. He said he had been “searching for an answer like this for a year or two, and the guy posted it two days ago overse…
Direct Download at:http://download.autodesk.com/SWDLDDLM/Updates/ReCap/2.0.1.5/Autodesk_ReCap_200255_ML_Win_64bit_dlm.sfx.exe Readme:http://download.autodesk.com/SWDLDDLM/Updates/ReCap/2.0.1.5/Autodes…
We often work with consultants using Tekla Structures, but we only recently came across the issue of trying to import point clouds into Tekla. The officially recommended workflow is:Leica / Trimble sc…
BIM360 Revit 2015 Add-in link:http://download.autodesk.com/SWDLDDLM/Updates/BIM360Addin/2015/4.35.1209/B3AddinRvt.msi Recap 1.4.2.2_to_1.4.2.8 link:http://download.autodesk.com/SWDLDDLM/Updates/ReCap/…
If you are suffering “Autodesk University Excitement Fade”, maybe my tweets about the AU Extension in Australia might help get you back in the mood for learnin’… “we believe we are on the brink of the…