ReCap Ideas - Page 2

Anonymous · ‎07-22-2016

I do a lot of coordination for the MEP trades. Many of these projects involve adding new scope to existing buildings. So we spend a ton of time converting point clouds to Revit models. We also use Edgewise when possible. I am currently testing out Recap Pro's mesh capabilities. I was initially disappointed to see it only allows a 30 meter cube because that only allows me to process 5 point clouds at a time and I can be responsible for converting as many as 400 point clouds. My other concern is the process of converting these mesh files to a file format that Revit and Navisworks accept. It is not automated and it takes a huge amount of time to go from one step to the next. Here is my current workflow: 1.) Import an FLS or PTX to Recap (About 30 minutes for 5 points clouds) 2.) Bring the Recap file into the cloud to mesh (About 15 minutes for 5 point clouds) 3.) Have the cloud create an OBJ file (About 3 hours for 5 point clouds) 4.) Open the OBJ file in 3ds Max and make sure you are using the correct units/ scale. 5.) Export the file as a DWG That means that I have to click buttons every 30 minutes to 3 hours for one mesh and repeat that process about 80 times before I would have an entire building ready. In an ideal world there would be a plug-in that would automate this 5 step process for me and I could come back to the file when it is ready. Another concern is that currently (if I did my math right) even an automated process would take 13+ days for 400 point cloud files. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

ZoltanFerenczy · ‎05-13-2016

Similar to how points can be colored by Normals, coloring by slope would give the points a color based on the deflection angle (0 - 180 degrees) of the point's normal vector relative to the +Z-axis vector. This would be useful for identifying the slopes of land contours, ADA requirements for ramps, or visualizing drainage and water run-off.

hannah.parker · ‎01-27-2016

We create models from LiDAR data. Sometime we require contractors to work with this data but due to the data ownership, we are not able to give them access to the xyz files. What we need, to be able to move all of our artist team over to 2016 3ds Max, is some way to protect the ReCap point clouds, so that they can be imported, but not easily exported straight back out to xyz. Does anyone else have a similar requirement?

apaupert · ‎08-22-2016

Our firm has used Point Cloud Data on Revit Construction docs (demo in particular). Can there be a feature to let you use a limit box to get a range of points (say from 0 to 4' off the ground.) and then to export to image file? High Resolution is preferred. Thanks

Anonymous · ‎05-17-2016

I would like to be able to find the reflectance of my surface from the intensity data captured by a laser scanner.

SolidPoint · ‎05-18-2015

We need the slice feature during registration. It works great after indexing but would be great to be able to divide up floors within groups as sometimes they can become a bit of a jumbled mess especially when you want to add more data to a final group at a later data. Oh and by the way, slice after registration is tediously slow especially when needing to do it for a high rise building.

Light_Guy · ‎04-07-2015

We need a File Properties window, similar to iProperties in Inventor. Somewhere where we can give a brief overview of the project, identify the author of the file, note what project it is a part of...and so on.

Patrick_Aps_9121 · ‎04-06-2015

We work with hybrid models: the Recap Projects are attached in AutoCAD based applications to model the new things in the exising laserscan. But often, we have to break down some existing things in order to attach the new things. What I would like is that I am able to draw a Solid in AutoCAD (a basic solid like a box or a cylinder, to start with, a complex union of solids later on) and then be able to select all Recap Points withing that solid to change them to another region to be able to make them invisible. This functionality could be in Recap, but then we need to be able to attach a DWG as reference in Recap OR it could be in AutoCAD (Inventor and Revit) as part of the functionality of the ReCap plug-in.

SolidPoint · ‎06-19-2015

I think in general the 3D preview needs a bit of reshaping to be better to use in terms of being able to cut slices, see different scan positions as different colours, turn off perspective, easier control etc. etc. but I think one major development on it would be to have the option to see only the overlapping data between the scans selected. At the minute we see all of the data from the 2 (or more scans selected), but due to Recaps other issues I regularly use this now as a way to check the quality of the alignment before moving on with the registration. However this can be impeded by information we don't actually care about. I tend to rotate the preview so that I can see down a flat surface (wall, ceiling or floor) that both scans can see so that if there is a mis alignment I should easily be able to spot it. Unfortunately as all of the other data is in there as well I end up seeing things like door frames, pictures or other random things I don't really care about. Maybe a clipping box in the preview would be handy just to allow us to ook at the things we really want to check?

Light_Guy · ‎04-09-2015

Now that we can pull scans back out, it would help if the registration report had a column that showed which other scans the specific one in question is attached to. We don't always attach scans to the previous one, sometimes it was the one 25 files up. Being able to see what is linked to that file would be helpful. Maybe two columns - attached from (which file the current file was joined with) and attached to (files that were joined using the current file).

cody_austin · ‎04-09-2015

It would be of great value to compare point clouds against each other, or point clouds and a 3D CAD model, to see what is different. This will assist in the process of updating a 3D model to an "as-is" state as well as maintaining an "as-is" point cloud of an ever-changing asset.

r_de_nier · ‎06-02-2016

Point Clouds are often very big. But a lot of points are unnecessary. Let's take a football field. This is in fact a rectangular flat plane. The only points you need are the four corner points. In a point cloud there could be 1000 of points in this rectangle. They could all be cleaned up. Even a vertical or a angled plane could be cleaned up this way. As specialy pont clouds for large infrastructural area's can be a hazzard. By cleaning up the unnecesssary plane points sizes of these large point clouds could be a 1/100 t 1/1000 th of the original size without any loss of precision.

Anonymous · ‎03-10-2016

In most scans you scan some objects in te distance that doesn't look great with a big point size and are hard to recognise with small point sizes. Most of those objects would look great if the points wouldn't be squares, but circles. I know that would probably require more calculating when rotating, so it would be great if it would be toggable.

Light_Guy · ‎08-07-2015

One of my users passed this on to me this morning: When adding an image to a note in a scan it pulls it up in a static view window and you can’t zoom in. Need to make the view image window a dynamic widow so you can zoom in and pan the image.

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Automation for Revit

Color Points by Slope

locked points clouds

ReCap Snapshot feature to High Resolution 2D Image

Reflectance

Slice during registration

File Properties

Select points using CAD objects

See only Overlapping Points in 3D Preview

Expand the Registration Report

Point Cloud Differentiation

Cleanup Unnecessary plane points

Option to change point display to circles

Make attached image more dynamic

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