Hello:
I am a longtime user of ReCap and Revit, for processing point clouds and adding value to them. Today I installed Navisworks for the first time and am VERY impressed.
Please watch this 2D model so I can explain further:
Mark Tyler: App Developer, Idea Explorer, Sleuth
As you can see, the author, Mark Tyler, is an excellent software engineer but he knows very little about 3D. Since I happen to have a detailed point cloud (Dealey-Plaza.pts) of that area, he and I are working together to add the 3rd. dimension that his model lacks.
That's when my big headache started. Mark tells me that if I provide him the Colored Triangles he will be on his merry way to upgrade his model. Like almost everybody, I am most familiar with Colored Points, so I did some reading:
3D point cloud generation from 3D triangular mesh
The task then is conceptually simple:
Input: My *.rvt or similar file.
Output: the colored points inside it, in some simple ASCII text format.
My first attempt was using the Revit API, but that route has been extremely fruitless and frustrating. In the Revit API forum I received the recommendation to use this:
"The Revit API supports a feature called Custom Exporter which is specifically designed to extract all triangles from a model:" (written by an Autodesk employee)
Custom Explorer that is supposed to extract all the Color Triangles from *.rvt file
but frankly, I have no evidence that such route is effective. For starters, the word "triangle" is not even mentioned.
Suffice to say that the support that I have received in that forum is suboptimal. Hence, my running to this forum.
Can the Navisworks API extract those triangles?
TIA,
-Ramon
JFK Numbers
