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Using point clouds in Revit families

Using point clouds in Revit families

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Using point clouds in Revit families

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- [Instructor] If you've ever done any laser scanning then you've probably found some interesting items in your point clouds that would be really neat to have modeled as Revit objects. You want to go into the family editor and, you know, create a nice, little Revit model that is based on that point cloud. There's only one problem. You can't take a point cloud directly into the family editor. It's not supported. So what do you do instead? The only kind of file that you can bring a point cloud into in Revit is a project file. So we'll do that first, of course. And then once that point cloud is in the project file, you have two options. Option one is to go to in-place family mode, build your geometry relative to the point cloud in that mode, and then before you finish it copy and paste the geometry out to a true family. That's the essential workflow there. The other option is to create some views, sections…

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