Moving a Point Cloud RCS file in Revit 2018

[Anonymous]

Not sure if this is the correct forum. My question is, how can I select (using selection tool) an imported RCS point cloud model in Revit 2018 to rotate it ? I have no problem inserting the 2gig file by Auto Shared Coordinate. There is no manual option to import. So I am guessing there is no way I can select imported file to rotate.

The file in point cloud is a scan of our current building under construction. We scanned it so we could check for wall plumb on all our elevations and make adjustments to our furring channels as needed starting with the the most outside point of our scanned wall. If I can rotate the scanned model, then I can align the scan best per elevation separately. 

Thank you, Below are two outside North wall building corners. 

Tony

North East CornerNorth West corner (300 feet from NE corner)

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

OK I have my tail between my legs, The solution to my problem was to just check the box in the selection tool drop down menu, to "select linked files".

Use drop down menu from selection tool

[ToanDN]

The shortcut icons to that selection menu is on the bottom right of your screen.

[Viveka_CD · Accepted solution]

Hi there @Anonymous

More information in this articles:

• Options to Control Element Selection (option when you want to be able to select linked files and individual elements in the links)

  Linked files can include the following:

  • Revit models
  • CAD files
  • Point clouds
• Using Point Cloud Files in a Project

Hope that helps!

Regards,

[Anonymous]

I was able to zoom far enough out (1200 miles). Find my point cloud, selected it and my survey point, and moved both at the same time via dragging towards the project base point (for me the project base point was set at the internal origin point, revit's 0,0,0).  After that I realized the survey point was so far away as to be likely a useless reference for any real positioning data in X, Y.  So now, I'm keeping the point cloud at the same 'Z' for elevational data, and a surveyor will need to field confirm the X and Y.  Oh well.  also, side affect - imprecise placement / moving of the cloud:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles...

mine jumps by about 8" when I tried to move it.