Point Cloud From Your Smartphone Into Archicad
Tips and Tricks • Andras Bognar • 15 March 2022
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You can use any applications with LiDAR 3D scanner functions on your smartphone that can make an XYZ or e57 filetypes, and then you can import that point cloud file to an Archicad Project as a 3D reference and as a 2D view drawing for floor plan, section, elevation.
Watch this video:
Note: The point cloud doesn’t have any surfaces that is why it can’t be shown in a rendered picture with Archicad, also it won’t show in 3D documents.