POINTCLOUDREFERENCE command

Loads point clouds from cache or inserts new point clouds to the current drawing.

BricsCAD Lite; BricsCAD Pro; BricsCAD Mechanical; BricsCAD BIM

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Description

Opens the Point Cloud Cache Manager dialog box where you can load point clouds from cache or insert new point clouds to the current drawing.

Process a file
Search
Cache used
Available space
Settings
Table of scans
Details
Attach

Process a file

Allows you to select a new point cloud file to preprocess and opens the Attach Point Cloud dialog box.

Click the drop-down button to access the Process a folder option.

Process a folder: Opens the Choose Input Folder dialog box. Select a folder to process.

A progress bar is displayed in the Status column of the Point Cloud Cache Manager dialog box while processing. A notification balloon displays when the point cloud is fully cached.

Note: When geographic information is available in the original data, it is stored in the point cloud's cache (only if the point cloud is preprocessed in HSPC format). You can access this information in the Properties panel under the Misc category for a selected point cloud instance. To overwrite the DWG file's geographical information with that of the point cloud instance (possible only if the CRS of the point cloud is the same as the CRS of the DWG file), set to On the Geolocate property of the selected point cloud instance.

Search

Displays in the table of scans only the point clouds containing the typed search string. The results are filtered as you type.

Cache used

Specifies the total amount of the used cache.

Available space

Displays the total amount of available cache.

Settings

Opens the Settings dialog box to set the POINTCLOUDCACHEFOLDER system variable value that specifies the folders where point cloud cache files are stored.

Table of scans

Lists the available preprocessed point cloud scans.

Right click a column header to display the table context menu:

Columns list: Show or hide a table column by clicking on its name in the list.
Show all columns: Shows all table's columns.
Restore column positions: Restores the default position of all table's columns.

Table columns

Name

Displays the point cloud cache name.

Note:

The point cloud cache name is a user specified name for the preprocessed point cloud. It's the default point cloud name if you do not specify a point cloud name for insertion.
The double-byte characters are accepted for the point cloud name.

Path: Displays the point cloud file location.

Size: Displays the point cloud file size.

Status

Displays the point cloud file status:

Progress bar: the file is in preprocessing.
Click the Cancel button () to interrupt the preprocessing of the file. Once the point cloud file is preprocessed and ready to use, the Cancel button disappears.
Ready: the file is available to be attached.
Inserted: the file is inserted in the current drawing.

Click the Cache options button (

) to display two options:

Delete cache: Removes the selected point cloud in the list and deletes the point cloud cache from the disk cache folder. The Remove file pop-up dialog box opens for confirmation.

Go to log file: Opens the selected point cloud's log file in the default text editor.

Details

Displays all available metadata of the selected preprocessed point cloud.

Note: For LGSx files, the number of available UCS is also displayed. You can select the active UCS in the Attach Point Cloud dialog box. You can also set the active UCS for an attached point cloud instance by selecting it and updating the UCS property in the Properties panel.

The following fields are editable:

Data Name: Displays the point cloud name.

Unit: Displays the point cloud unit. Click the drop-down menu button and select a unit from the list.

GIS Coordinate System: Displays the point cloud GIS Coordinate System. Click the menu button to open the Choose GIS Coordinate System dialog box and select a GIS Coordinate System.

WKT: Displays the WKT string to be converted to a GIS Coordinate System.

Attach

Opens the Attach Point Cloud dialog box to attach the point cloud file in the current drawing.