To Bring in Point Cloud Data

Point clouds are large data sets composed of 3D point data.

Point clouds are only viewable in 3D. In any other mode, you'll see a bounding box where the point cloud data is in your drawing.

Note: Point clouds are not supported on 32-bit systems. To work with point clouds, you need a 64-bit system, and hardware acceleration must be turned on.

To add a point cloud to your map

  1. At the Command prompt, enter POINTCLOUDATTACH.
  2. In the Select Point Cloud File dialog box, select the .rcp (project file) or .rcs (scan file) file for the point cloud data store to add to your map
  3. Click Open.

    AutoCAD Map 3D toolset adds the point cloud drawing object to your map.

To create a point cloud layer for point cloud objects already in your map

  1. Click DataAdd Point Cloud DataFrom drawing object.
  2. In the Select Point Cloud dialog box, select the point cloud object or objects.
  3. To add point cloud objects to a Display Manager group, select Group Selection.
  4. Click OK.

    AutoCAD Map 3D toolset adds a point cloud layer to the Display Manager.

To adjust the display density point clouds in your map

  1. At the command prompt enter pointcloudlod (point cloud level of density), then enter a value from 1 through 10.

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