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
- At the Command prompt, enter POINTCLOUDATTACH.
- 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
- 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
- Click
DataAdd Point Cloud DataFrom drawing object.
- In the
Select Point Cloud dialog box, select the point cloud object or objects.
- To add point cloud objects to a
Display Manager group, select
Group Selection.
- 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
- At the command prompt enter
pointcloudlod (point cloud level of density), then enter a value from 1 through 10.