ReCap 2025.2 Beta Participation

[barmanr]

Hi,

We'd like to request your participation in testing ReCap Pro 25.2 Beta.

To do so:

• Go to https://feedback.autodesk.com/
• Under Opportunities, look for "Autodesk Infrastructure Futures"
  
• Click View Opportunity and apply for access
• After access is granted, click on "Autodesk Infrastructure Futures" tab menu
• Click on "ReCap Builds"
  
• Click on "ReCap Pro 2025.2 Beta"
• The instructions, release notes, and help doc are attached to the page.

Key features:

• Added support for Scan to Mesh for local processing, along with the necessary UI workflows. 
• Introduced the ReCap Mesh Editor, which offers an integrated UI for improved mesh visualization and classification, enabling segmented mesh generation for clash detection and BIM creation. 
• Launched the ReCap Mesh Revit Plugin, allowing users to import local Scan to Mesh outputs into Revit to generate corresponding BIM models.

Please post any feedback under User Forums > Reality Solutions > ReCap Pro.

Thanking You.

Warmest Regards,

[curtisridenour]

This is extremely exciting to me. Thank you. Hopefully, long gone are the days of slicing up point clouds into individual systems manually. I also am even more excited that the MESH aspect is being implemented. Having a point cloud and not being able to run clash detection between the new Revit model and the existing conditions has been a huge disappointment.

[marlon_strahl]

Hello,

I want to use the "scan to mesh local processing" feature. Is there a tutorial for this feature? 

I ran the process on my computer, but what comes out are RGDS, RGDB and RGGS files, which I cant open in any application. Opening the mesh by clicking on the mesh-symbol in ReCap again also doesnt work. It tells me there is a problem with the Desktop Connector, although it runs in the Background. How do I get a look at the generated mesh?

Thanks.

[eoghan_harris]

In the new Mesh Editor >model export function, It works fine when I select most file formats, but i cannot seem to export the ReCAP Revit Plugin Format (.pxf). In the Model Export - Scene Selection page, it will not select the geometry for export, although i have it selected in the window. how do i get it to export in this format? 

[marlon_strahl]

Is it right that PointFuse will be available in ReCap? And if so is it integrated in the 2025.2 Beta yet, or do I have to wait until next year to use the automatic segmentation? 

[ramesh_sridharan]

Yes, 2025.2 beta includes point fuse technolgy that is integrated in ReCap pro. Automatic segmentation will be embedded in this workflow as we move forward.

[mike_deacon2KEDC]

Hi @marlon_strahl ,

Thanks for testing the Beta. If you head back to the Beta portal at feedback.autodesk.com then there is a PDF help guide that should provide the answers you need. 

But quickly, those files you mention are the internal format for the mesh. You can open them in the Mesh editor to view and export your model to the desired format (e.g. nwc). 

There is also Beta specific forums at the link above which might contain some useful extra information for you as well!

Mike Deacon

Product Owner - Reality Solutions

AEC - Building and Infrastructure Design

[mike_deacon2KEDC]

Hi @eoghan_harris ,

Thanks for testing the beta. 

Currently, In order to export your data to the ReCap Revit Plugin format you first need to classify the segmented mesh into a model hierarchy.
You can do this by creating groups and layers within the model browser, and then selecting surfaces within the model and 'classifying' them into the layers.

If you head back over to the Beta forums at feedback.autodesk.com then there is a specific topic on this subject, 

Thanks again,

Mike Deacon

Product Owner - Reality Solutions

AEC - Building and Infrastructure Design

[eoghan_harris]

This works great, thank you mike, 

my only issue now is that, when i have my .pxf open in Revit, and I 'add to document' to add meshes to my model, my object is now made up of several meshes.

So when I go to 'convert to family, I can only convert one mesh at a time to a family. Whereas, I want all meshes for a single object included in a single family. Is there any workaround for this?

Great workflow, btw, has huge potential for asset management, where we can scan in objects now and control them as BIM assets. 

[mike_deacon2KEDC]

No problem! 

Yep you can solve this as part of the mesh classification process back in ReCap Pro:

• Open the mesh editor,
• select all of the mesh surfaces that make up your object
• Set your target layer
• Click "Merge" rather than Classify (see screenshot below). 
• This will group all of those individual faces into 1 piece. 
• Save and re-export to pxf

Should solve things for you. 

Thanks again for the feedback!

[eoghan_harris]

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[eoghan_harris]

That works a treat, thanks.

One last thing, as when scanning small scale assets (white goods / IT etc), its hard to make out the asset visually in shaded view as some detail is lost in the scan, is there any way to carry across RGB texture to Revit or Tandem so you can make out the object visually?

thanks again

[mike_deacon2KEDC]

The Texture in Revit/Tandem is on our roadmap for next year. Revit doesn't support texture for linked models (only imported OBJ's) so we are working on a solution that will allow the texture to be carried over. 

Thanks for raising that!