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Importing point cloud data

Importing point cloud data - InfraWorks Tutorial

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Importing point cloud data

- [Instructor] Importing GIS point cloud data within InfraWorks 2020 can easily be done through the data sources panel. As you can see, you can see our point cloud. Now with InfraWorks, you can actually extract objects from the Lidar scan and turn it into a 3D model. So when I zoom in, as you can see, I used a point cloud modeling feature tool. It's right here under your Create and manage your model. And tell this tool, Point Cloud Modeling and this tool basically allows you to look at your Lidar scan and convert some of the objects into a 3D model. So I'm going to turn off the actual point cloud to show you what it looks like. So I'm going to go into my Model Explorer, and over here under Overlays, I'm going to turn off the point cloud and underneath that option is the point cloud also. And there you go, as you can see, the yellow boxes represents objects that I can turn into 3D objects. And then we also have our…

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