Tools for rendering point-cloud animations to show off your work or communicate with clients have gone dormant over the past decade. Are meshes making point clouds obsolete?

If you're taking a 3D laser scan of a site’s as-is condition and creating a 3D CAD model to estimate, detail, or renovate MEP projects, you might wonder what a point cloud is.

Learn how to effectively convert a point cloud file that comes from laser scanning into an accurate 2D/3D Revit as-built model that complies with construction industry standards using Revit software, AutoCAD Civil 3D software, and AutoCAD software. We'll demonstrate a real case study of one of the biggest construction projects in the Middle East. Learn which different Autodesk tools we used in our workflow that already have been implemented in multiple real projects across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by FalconViz. This class will help you build an effective and reliable workflow for converting scanned data to an as-built, 3D Building Information Modeling (BIM) model.

A point cloud is a set of data points in space . Point clouds are generally produced by 3D scanners , which measure many points on the external surfaces of objects around them. As the output of 3D scanning processes, point clouds are used for many purposes, including to create 3D CAD models for manufactured parts, for metrology and quality inspection, and for a multitude of visualization, animation, rendering and mass customization applications.