POINTCLOUDSCAN2BIM command (Experimental)

Detects floors and rooms in a point cloud, then creates solids for detected rooms.

BricsCAD BIM

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Disclaimer

POINTCLOUDSCAN2BIM is an experimental feature which may not yet be stable, and could be removed in the future. Use the MANAGEEXPERIMENTALFEATURES command to enable or disable experimental features.

The Experimental mode is disabled by default. Enabling or disabling the Experimental mode requires a restart of BricsCAD.

Method

The command combines the POINTCLOUDDETECTFLOORS, POINTCLOUDDETECTROOMS, and POINTCLOUDFITROOMS commands in one step.

The command analyzes point clouds to detect floors and rooms. Then, it creates solids corresponding to detected rooms and gives the option to run the BIMINVERTSPACES command.

The command is supported only for point clouds for which normal vectors information is available.

For structured point cloud data, normal vectors are calculated during point cloud preprocessing. In case a point cloud has been preprocessed on an older BricsCAD version where normals have not yet been calculated, use the POINTCLOUDNORMALS command first.
Note: Normal vectors calculation requires a point cloud processed in HSPC format. Both POINTCLOUDHSPC and POINTCLOUDNORMALS system variable need to be set to On (On by default).

For unstructured point cloud data, normal vectors information is imported if present and used by the command. Otherwise it is not calculated and the command is not supported.

Note:
  • You can continue working during the background processing.
  • The point cloud Scan to BIM semi-automatic workflow is described in the Point cloud Scan to BIM workflow article.

Options within the command

Full
Analyzes the entire point cloud.
Selection
Allows you to specify the point cloud area to be analyzed.
Edit
Exits the command to let you edit the room solids.
Biminvertspaces
Runs the BIMINVERTSPACES command.