topic Point Cloud data access from the API in Archicad C++ API

Point Cloud data access from the API

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 13:00:34 GMT

Hi,

I was wondering whether it was possible to access the points of a point cloud via the API.
I noticed that when loading a point cloud into Archicad, it is converted to a proprietary .gspc format and the GDL object uses it. Because of such processing I can't find a way to access the point cloud's data.

Re: Point Cloud data access from the API

Akos Somorjai — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 14:45:26 GMT

twBIM wrote:
Hi,

I was wondering whether it was possible to access the points of a point cloud via the API.
I noticed that when loading a point cloud into archicad, it is converted to a proprietary .gspc format and the GDL object uses it. Because of such processing I can't find a way to access the point cloud's data.

Hi,

The .gspc format is private. What would you like to achieve?
The point cloud data can be imported into a GDL script, or directly from ARCHICAD: Point Cloud

Best, Akos

Re: Point Cloud data access from the API

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 07:53:09 GMT

Hi,

I would like to get the coordinates of all points in the point cloud for some processing using the API.

Re: Point Cloud data access from the API

Akos Somorjai — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 06:56:50 GMT

twBIM wrote:
Hi,

I would like to get the coordinates of all points in the point cloud for some processing using the API.

I'm sorry, that's not possible at the moment, partly due to the sheer amount of data. Try to parse the source point cloud file if that's available.

Best, Akos