https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/Free-multi-platform-Point-Cloud-processing-software/m-p/240227#M30894 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"><R>One ARCHICAD user mentioned a software on Twitter which I think could be very useful for anybody who is trying to bring in Point Clouds to ARCHICAD:<BR /> <BR /> <A href="https://twitter.com/OddGoderstad/status/684675050738442240" target="_blank"><LINK_TEXT text="https://twitter.com/OddGoderstad/status ... 0738442240">https://twitter.com/OddGoderstad/status/684675050738442240</LINK_TEXT></A><BR /> <BR /> Turned out that he is using a free multi-platform Point Cloud processing software called <B>CloudCompare</B>:<BR /> <BR /> <A href="http://www.danielgm.net/cc/" target="_blank">http://www.danielgm.net/cc/</A><BR /> <A href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CloudCompare" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CloudCompare</A><BR /> <BR /> It is very capable and opens lots of Point Cloud formats.<BR /> But one of its greatest features is that it can "thin down" the point cloud so the number of points in it can be drastically reduced:<BR /> <BR /> <A href="https://twitter.com/OddGoderstad/status/791747390592192512" target="_blank"><LINK_TEXT text="https://twitter.com/OddGoderstad/status ... 0592192512">https://twitter.com/OddGoderstad/status/791747390592192512</LINK_TEXT></A><BR /> <BR /> So you can use a function called "subsampling" in this software and this way you can take a huge Point Cloud file which may be too much for ARCHICAD and reduce the number of points to, e.g. by a factor of 10.<BR /> <BR /> I hope this helps people who encounter such problem with this technology that will be increasingly part of our workflows.</R></DIV> Sun, 30 Oct 2016 22:04:08 GMT Laszlo Nagy 2016-10-30T22:04:08Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/Free-multi-platform-Point-Cloud-processing-software/m-p/240227#M30894 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"><R>One ARCHICAD user mentioned a software on Twitter which I think could be very useful for anybody who is trying to bring in Point Clouds to ARCHICAD:<BR /> <BR /> <A href="https://twitter.com/OddGoderstad/status/684675050738442240" target="_blank"><LINK_TEXT text="https://twitter.com/OddGoderstad/status ... 0738442240">https://twitter.com/OddGoderstad/status/684675050738442240</LINK_TEXT></A><BR /> <BR /> Turned out that he is using a free multi-platform Point Cloud processing software called <B>CloudCompare</B>:<BR /> <BR /> <A href="http://www.danielgm.net/cc/" target="_blank">http://www.danielgm.net/cc/</A><BR /> <A href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CloudCompare" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CloudCompare</A><BR /> <BR /> It is very capable and opens lots of Point Cloud formats.<BR /> But one of its greatest features is that it can "thin down" the point cloud so the number of points in it can be drastically reduced:<BR /> <BR /> <A href="https://twitter.com/OddGoderstad/status/791747390592192512" target="_blank"><LINK_TEXT text="https://twitter.com/OddGoderstad/status ... 0592192512">https://twitter.com/OddGoderstad/status/791747390592192512</LINK_TEXT></A><BR /> <BR /> So you can use a function called "subsampling" in this software and this way you can take a huge Point Cloud file which may be too much for ARCHICAD and reduce the number of points to, e.g. by a factor of 10.<BR /> <BR /> I hope this helps people who encounter such problem with this technology that will be increasingly part of our workflows.</R></DIV> Sun, 30 Oct 2016 22:04:08 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/Free-multi-platform-Point-Cloud-processing-software/m-p/240227#M30894 Laszlo Nagy 2016-10-30T22:04:08Z