From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

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Link a point cloud to Revit

Link a point cloud to Revit

- [Narrator] Field surveying and capturing existing conditions has come a long way in recent years, and many firms are now relying on LiDAR, or laser scanning, to actually capture point clouds of their existing conditions. So a point cloud is quite literally a collection of thousands if not millions of points that are captured from a laser scanner. So the laser scanner shoots lasers in all directions, and it records the distances to the bounce back of every one of the laser beams that it fires and it records all of those as a series of points, and then that gets compiled into a file called a point cloud. So what I want to talk about here is how we would take that point cloud file and bring it into Revit to use as the basis for the existing conditions in a Revit project. Now you don't have to be in any particular project for this example, so I've just created a brand new project from the out of the box template. I'm going to go to the insert tab and click on the point cloud button here…

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