Does anyone have experience with creating objects in 3D from a point cloud?
We have a very detailed point cloud displaying a geological structure - but in the detail level of what architects are used to. To deal with it in a CAD-software, we need an importable 3D object ... which is quite a task considering the level of detail.
(Why we don't create a mesh first? - We can, and we did, but the mesh needs to become an object anyways to be read by our CAD-software.)
Dear Gisela;
It looks like your first concern is to see if it is possible to display the element in your CAD software: What is the name of the software and what are the file formats you are considering, importable in your software? Once you solved this, the ETL part should be quite straightforward to implement,
Tell me if this helps!
Some CAD programs can render point clouds and then you can draw using snap to the points. Microstation and AutoCAD can do that avoiding to load the points as points of the drawing. Generating a mesh with all the points in the cloud is probably a bad option because it can be very large. Another possibility is generating a simplified mesh merging co-planar triangles
Hi,
Microstation or standalone release Descartes can be a solution on large point clouds.
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