Decreasing the pain with Point Clouds
A few tips from Adam Sheather: Change your (Recap) temporary folder locations for conversion If you need to move cloud file between offices, convert them first to lower transfer times. Ask for ptg fil…
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Going from helicopter RC drone GoPro photos to a conceptual model in Revit using Recap 360
From viewing the video, it looks like you just: Take some pictures with your drone and GoPro Upload to Recap 360 and make sure you get an RCS output Link it into Revit and do your conceptual modelling…
Guide to choosing a free Point Cloud viewer (via geonext)
Summary: Download pdf viahttp://www.linkedin.com/groups/comparison-free-point-cloud-viewers-4408378%2ES%2E5880013264796033028…
Recap 2015 Hotfix 1 available
Readme:http://download.autodesk.com/SWDLDDLM/Updates/ReCap/Autodesk_ReCap_2015_Hotfix1.html 1. This hotfix addresses Heartbleed vulnerability – a security bug in the open-source OpenSSL cryptography l…
Are you keeping up with Recap? Have you tried Pro and 360?
To get a Free trial of Autodesk ReCap Pro click on the following link: ReCap Free Trial You can use Autodesk ReCap 360 now for free if you have a Autodesk 360 account. If you don’t have an account, yo…
How Developers can Gain Access to the Autodesk REST API
Autodesk offers several different browser-based user interfaces for different reality capture scenarios.They all use the same underlying ReCap REST API.You need a special developer key to make use of …
Extracting MSP Files
Had a pretty persistent error which wouldn’t allow Recap to install SP1. In hindsight, it was probably related to the error at this post:http://upandready.typepad.com/up_and_ready/2013/07/autodesk-rec…
PCG Point Clouds exported from Recap will not import into Revit 2013
The scenario: you receive raw point cloud data, and want to process it in Recap (part of 2014 suite), export to PCG, and import back into Revit 2013. Or: you request a PCG from a surveyor for Revit 20…
Recap for Windows XP – get it while it lasts
The current version of Recap Pro runs on Windows 7 and 8 (download link). However, for the time being you can still download Recap version 1.0 from this link:http://labs-download.autodesk.com/us/labs/…
Navisworks and PCG Point Clouds
Navisworks may have issues importing PCG point cloud files. For example, if you try to append a PCG directly to Navisworks Manage 2013, it will say “No plugin exists that will open pointfile.pcg”. If …