Revit Roof On Point Cloud

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Revit roof on point cloud.

Select the floor or roof to modify. Released 15 jun 2018 the latest update providing enhanced tools for accelerating point cloud modeling for aec professionals in revit the new release provides users with new tools for fitting and alignment of structural elements and a new contrast factor value improves point cloud appearance. Point clouds are great but they can slow down your revit session especially if you re navigating in 3d and your point cloud is quite large. Find xyz to roof on the add ins tab and click the button to load csv into xyz to roof it will create a new structural roof that accurately matches your point cloud image.

You can use the add point tool to add singular points to the element geometry. Insert a point cloud file insert an indexed point cloud file into a revit project or convert a raw format point cloud file to the rcp and rcs indexed formats. Work directly in autodesk revit with pointcloud instances to create topo floor and roof elements that accurately match the original pointcloud data. Image courtesy of imaginit point clouds are the product of 3d laser scanning.

Prepare your roof point data into a csv file in the numerical format of e value n value z value. Change colors for a point cloud. Roof boundaries will need some manual adjustment. About point clouds you can use point clouds to provide the existing condition of a building or site.

Use a section box to zero in on the area you re working on. The points are used by the shape modification tools to change the element geometry. Offers a decimation slider so that you can choose how many points are used to make the new surface element for either high accuracy or high speed depending on your requirements. A point cloud rendering of a building and its revit model counterpart.

The elevation edit box displays on the options bar with a relative check box next to it.