Revit and laser scanners

[Anonymous]

Good morning,

I would like to ask some questions, I hope someone can help me:

• How you can import and manage data from a laser scanner in Revit?

• Is it better as a point cloud or mesh?

• What are the recommended formats?

• Are there any limits or specific plug-in?

Thank you very much!

Best regards,

Andrea Martín
Fundación CARTIF

[sureshchotrani]

There are actually no limitations as such, what format do you have of laser scan?

[Anonymous]

Thank you Sureshchotrani.

I'm using a Leica scanner, whose format is *.ptx
Do you know if I can import it into Revit? Are there any limitations (number of points, etc)?

Thank you very much!

Andrea Martín
Fundación CARTIF

[sureshchotrani · Accepted solution]

You can open .ptx files in ReCap, then in ReCap save it as .pcg, which you can insert in Revit.

[Anonymous]

Thank you for such useful information.

Regards,

Andrea Martín

Fundación CARTIF

[Anonymous]

Please, where can I find all the formats currently available for point cloud importing into Revit (see the second picture of your 05-18-2015 answer)?. In parallel, could we work there with triangle meshes, and, again, what formats?.

Andrea Martín
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[sureshchotrani]

Click here & here

Hope this helps, I am not aware of triangle mesh.

[KyleB_Autodesk]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Please, where can I find all the formats currently available for point cloud importing into Revit (see the second picture of your 05-18-2015 answer)?. In parallel, could we work there with triangle meshes, and, again, what formats?.

Andrea Martín
Fundación CARTIF

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Andrea,

Revit's ability to handle large-scale meshes is nowhere near as efficient as what we do with Point Clouds, so we'd strongly recommend the ReCap route.

-Kyle