Currently, the coordinate system is created by selecting a very small sample of points to set each axis. We need more control over this. If we are setting a coordinate system for a large building, the small area of points to set an axis does not result in a good coordinate system where the building is completely square.
We should have an option to first set the z plane by selecting 3 points along the floor (or more points to get a best fit plane for the z)
then selecting 2 points along a wall (i.e one at each end of a long wall) that would represent the y axis
and then one point that would set x to 0
In metrology, this is refereed to as locking the 6 degrees of freedom. (plane = 3, line = 2, point = 1)
In most cases, the z level plane should already be set because the scanner does this for you. There is also no way to select the point on the floor and make it at a numerical elevation, currently it is forced to be 0. We should be able to translate the origin to an imputed numerical origin so it can translate to a
Revit model.
The current method recap provides is not very good, and is not a repeatable practice.
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