Mesh points only from poly lines / lines?

[MrSoleil]

Is there a way to create a mesh with points only (no lines/ridges) from a survey (lines, poly lines)? 

Mesh lines don't work for modifying the terrain later on. 

Please don't tell me Archicad only has manual input of those... 

[Christophe Fortineau]

Hello MrSoleil,

To import a survey you have to clic on Files/Interoperability/import survey data (or something like that I'm french).

Mesh lines works for modifying the terrain later on too !

[Ricardo Lopez]

Hi @MrSoleil 

As @Christophe Fortineau mentioned, you can import surveyor's XYZ points under File> Interoperability> Place Mesh from Surveyor's Data.

If you don't want to see the edges/ridges or points in your Floor Plan and Section or 3D views you can choose the Show User Defined Ridges and All Ridges Selection under Mesh Selection Settings for a cleaner look. Sometimes even changing or disabling the Cover Fills helps to achieve this.

[MrSoleil]

I mean to create points, not mesh lines. The lines are impossible to work with, modifications are incredibly difficult. Points can be deleted. Is there really not a way to get points instead of lines? Shouldn't be that hard for archicad. 

[AllanP]

if you have a mesh, and you select the mesh, and have the geometry Method set to Polygonal

then just double click at a point on the mesh, it produces a point, not a line.

click "OK", then you have your point(or hit the enter key)

repeat for all points...

i know its a bit slow, but it gives you points from 2D data.

I don't know if this helps.

[MrSoleil]

Yeah the "repeat for all points" part is what I'm trying to avoid here 😃 

I was hoping this could be done by archicad converting a line/polyline to points. But I guess not possible. 

[Patrick M]

import surveyors data (xyz file) works... but IME, good luck getting a surveyor to know what you are talking about when you ask for the raw data.

[Lingwisyer]

The ArchiTerra addon can create a points mesh based on user define spacing and intervals from a DXF containing contours. Probably more options now since I have only used V2 from Cigraph, and Eptar apparently rebuilt is and it is up to V6. It is not cheap though... and the product page does not state AC30 support...

Ling.

[Laszlo Nagy]

@MrSoleil,

Can you upload a ZIP containing the source file? Is it a DWG? Is it some other format? Seeing the exact source file would be helpful. Maybe there is a way to do this through Tapir but I would have to see the source file.