Revit render including point clouds

[Anonymous]

When rendering in Revit, the point cloud doesn't show up.

Screencast: http://autode.sk/2bSW1Fy

It could be really interesting that Revit also renders the point cloud.

Actually, to render with a point cloud, the workflow goes like this:

- Import point cloud in Revit,

- Move point cloud to correct coordinates,

- Work in Revit,

- Save work as .rvt,

- Start 3ds max,

- Import .rvt in 3dsmax,

- Import point cloud in 3dsmax (even if linked, point cloud is lost from .rvt when importing in 3dsmax, because why not...),

- Put point cloud back to correct coordinates (does not import in the same place as when imported in Revit, because why not...),

- Render!

Screencast for the 3dsmax part: http://autode.sk/2cpDr4l

The whole 3dsmax part could be skipped if Revit would render the point cloud (or at least would show it as it is in the render).

We are more and more working with 3d scans of buildings, and having this workflow being more fluent seems a nice idea.

[JADAstudio]

Yes, and some way to control the render or display size of the points would be necessary. It would be awesome if the display / render size of each point was related to its distance from the camera.

[samuelsanf]

With Arnold Render (3Ds Max 2018) rendering point cloud is not supported.