Extracting Elevations From Recap Pro to AutoCAD + PDF 

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Good to hear from you Julia. Hope all is going well? If there's anything else I can help with just shout. R

@@emmockladdie All good here in my corner of the world 🇫🇮😁 Thanks, really appreciate that! Take care

@@mauriceshapero7200 Hiya. Using automated tools? Found most of those to be useless. I have some vidz that show how I work from point clouds - there's no shortcuts I have found, I promise I would be using them if they were worth using.

@@emmockladdie yep, I've worked with point clouds a few times over the years and found them to be difficult every time! Is it possible to clip the point cloud in Autocad? Or is it best to do it as you do in your video - clip and export in Recap Pro? Another question I can't seem to find anything on is making a mesh from the point cloud - do you ever do this? Thank you again.

@@mauriceshapero7200 hi, clipping is easy in autocad - file must be .RCS though. Can be tempting to copy the cloud and have lots of clips but then you risk a nasty crash. A couple of clips is ok ... Don't risk more. Recap pro is offering meshing again as a service - they email you when it's ready. Generates a crazy amount of triangles, very poor smoothness. I will dig out a couple of videos and post links as a new reply to you.

Making a model of a maternity suite at a local hospital - these are videos from a class that aren't public on RU-vid - just because they are a bit rougher. Hope these help. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_DtqEog9t2o.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6LAs7AVk_-E.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lyRARb3Qk8o.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vFRMsfgn6fM.html

@@emmockladdie Thank you so much - really really helpful. These are great.

You raise a good point there. I would generally deal with each elevation RCS file separately and just get stuck in in AutoCAD and trace the point cloud ( here's me tracing: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xPrZB1REo98.html ). I find PDFs in AutoCAD aren't the smoothest. Import the PDF into PhotoShop and save it as a big JPEG. Then import the JPEG in to AutoCAD instead. Best regards. Rich.

Hi. If you try to put in a dimension it will need scaled up because point clouds are life size. Command DIMSCALE enter 200 enter. Then try drawing your dimension - the number should be readable. If that was not your question get back to me.

It's a laser scan.

Print big A1 or A0. You have to adjust the cloud point size accordingly or there will be too much white space between dots.

@@emmockladdie thank you, I found out my error, i was scaling the cloud, i tried again without any scaling and the pdf is much better, thank you very much !

I'll give that a go, thanks