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import pointcloud .pts file to revit or convert .pts file to .rcs

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 11:59:37 GMT

Hi all

I'm makin a Revit AddIn in C#, where I need to import a .pts pointcloud file into Revit. I can't find anywhere a solution to do this, but what i can understand is that the pointcloud has to be .rcs, so i thought that i could find a way to convert .pts to .rcs.

Some old posts in here says that PointCloudIndexer in the Revit Api should do the trick, but apparently it is not available anymore.

Other places says that ReCap is needed for this, but i can't find a ReCap Api or any other help on the net to achieve this.

I did make my code so that i can import .rcs pointclouds into Revit, so i only need help to convert .pts to .rcs.

I hope someone can help?

Best regard

Martin K

Re: import pointcloud .pts file to revit or convert .pts file to .rcs

jeremy_tammik — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:37:57 GMT

I performed an Internet search for you, targeting 'rcs file format':

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rcs+file+format

It is apparently proprietary, but not very secret anymore:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/recap-forum/rcs-rcp-file-format-documentation/td-p/7815795

Apparently, in 2015, you could use a free version of ReCap to convert other file formats to rcs:

https://www.agisoft.com/forum/index.php?topic=1491.0

The RCS file reader seems to be something different:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/navisworks-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2017/ENU/Navisworks-Manage/files/GUID-7F1C93E2-66A8-4884-85E1-15B180E0C46F-htm.html

Looking forward to hearing what else you can find out and how you end up solving your task.

Thank you!

Re: import pointcloud .pts file to revit or convert .pts file to .rcs

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 05:54:59 GMT

Hi Jeremy

Thank you very much for the quick response. I will look through your links and see if that can help me and then i will return 🙂

Best regards

Martin K

Re: import pointcloud .pts file to revit or convert .pts file to .rcs

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 08:35:00 GMT

Hi again

It doesn't seem like importing pointcloud in .pts format to Revit can be done programmaticly.

To convert .pts file to .rcs file either doesn't seem like it can be done without it is costing a lot of money, because i have to use some converter in ReCap which neither seems to be possible in C#.

To read a .rcs file so that i might be able to convert it my self neither seems it can be done.

I really don't understand why it is that impossible to import pointclouds in a format other than .rcs to Revit.

I hope that someone has an idea out there.

Thanks anyway 🙂

Best regards

Martin K