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If you use Structural Columns, you can schedule them… I suggest you get rid of all column types in the project, and just keep one Round and one Rectangular OOTB column family loaded. Easy, right? Well, then you have to clean it up. You essentially get to pick points, choose decimation, and then you get a topo. The topo creation tools in Scan to BIM work great.

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Optionally – use the “Work on Wall” button, Select Wall, and use the resulting section to edit wall profile, add windows etc. The latter is preferred if you want to modify the resulting wall in any way. Sloping / Slanted Walls – You can either use the Wall by Face option on the Wall Region Grow tool, or create an inplace wall out of extrusions by using the Set Workplane tool.

Use Wall Region Grow tool (3 point click on face)Ĭarving – A quick way to reduce the extent of the wall is to use the Split Tool – rather than trying to find the edge, just Split the wall horizontally or vertically or both, and delete the bit you don’t need.

Crop 3D view with Section Box as much as possible.

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You can also access an archive of webcasts by filling out this form. I recommend you watch this video to start: You can use Set Workplane to pick this triangulated plane and work from there.

To facilitate setting of a Workplane based on already modelled geometry, I made a simple 3 point adaptive component with a surface formed by these 3 points.

You may wish to turn off “Snap to Remote Objects” in your Revit snaps, these can get in the way when working with Scan to BIM, and Point Clouds generally.

Note: This new Section Box will also remain selected, so you can adjust the crop before switching to the newly created view This is actually better than using Duplicate View, which adds this silly “Copy of” to the front of the new view name. It will appear in Project Browser with same name as previous 3D view, but with any digit on the end of the view advanced by 1.

When making a new 3D view, the quickest way is to select an existing Section Box and copy it using Revit copy (not Ctrl C) and drop it close to new desired location.You should also set and use a keyboard shortcut for the Show Workplane button on the Home tab. When Revit says -not associated-, it means ‘use the current workplane’. After triggering Orient to a Plan, just click OK. The above workplane shortcuts work well after using the “Set Workplane” tools in the various add-ins.Set Current View as HomeUsing these shortcuts, you can quickly reorient yourself and use the Viewcube properly. I recommend that you set keyboard shortcuts for: You will be working in 3D a lot, and making lots of 3D views cropped to section boxes.Did you know that Point Clouds when imported to Revit have a Phase Created and a Phase Demolished parameter? Revit respects this when it comes to Phase Filters and Graphic Overrides – keep this in mind if you can’t ‘find’ a point cloud in your project.It seems that Scan to BIM can still interact with a Point Cloud in a primary option of an option set. If you are using Revit 2013 and you want to restrict Revit from highlighting (pre selecting) a point cloud, which can be annoying, just place it in a Design Option.Working on the same point files using Cloudworx will consume about 2gb of RAM, depending on your view settings.You may have to periodically close and re-open Revit, depending on your system specs. Working with 2 of these 7gb PCG files in Revit 2013 on XP64 with Scan to BIM will consume about 11gb of RAM easily.

Indexing 2 x 27 gb PTX using Recap version 1.0 and basically default settings.

Will take about 7 hours for a mid-range PC.

Revit will consume big amounts of memory when working with large point clouds.

Scan to BIM seems to be the better tool for feature extraction and geometry creation, while Leica Cloudworx puts you in direct contact with the original point cloud data – not decimated by Revit. On the project in question, we received the following from the surveyor: I will add to this post over time to make it as useful as possible. I explored various different workflows and add-ins. This post is about my experience working with point clouds and Revit 2013 on a recent project. Bring on the automatic, one-click “Make a Building from my Point Cloud” solution.

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Happily, OCR software improved, and I hope that geometry-from-point-cloud automation will also improve. It reminds me of the early days of document OCR – you could scan a document, but there was no easy way to infer the intelligence (text) of the document. I find it interesting that we can receive a point cloud (laser scan) of a project, which essentially describes the geometry and colour of the whole 3D space, and yet have to re-model everything in Revit elements to make it actually useful in a BIM / FM context. What Revit Wants: 3D Section Box crop add-in WITH automatic rotation – Boost Your BIM I am enjoying using inverted background (black) when working with Revit and point clouds.