Inserting Point Clouds

To insert a point cloud into your Revit document click on the Insert Point Cloud button inside the Qbitec Ribbon to open the Insert Point Cloud dialog.

While the main purpose of this dialog is to insert the relevant point clouds into your Revit document, it also enables you to browse, sort, filter, preview, and inspect the metadata of all datasets from specific data sources.

Workflow

1. First, select the data source that contains the point cloud you want to insert.
2. Search the list of point clouds for the specific dataset you want to insert.
3. Click on the Insert button and choose the appropriated Insertion mode

Insertion Modes

• Center to Center - Aligns the point cloud center with the center of the project center
• Origin to Internal Origin - Places the point cloud origin at the internal project coordinate system origin
• By Shared Coordinates - Geo referenced point clouds are placed correctly if the survey coordinate system has been set correctly beforehand, e.g. using Set Survey Coordinate System
• Origin to Last Placed - Positions relative to the previously placed point cloud (available after the first point cloud was inserted)