- From what I can find out Revit is still not point cloud friendly.
- Small quantities can be imported via DXF or IFC’s, but the workarounds are painful.
- Autodesk will be releasing there annual product updates in the next month or so. Hopefully Revit will have some kind of point cloud support.
I just did a little on line research to see if things had changed at all, but from what I can see Revit is still not very point cloud friendly. What makes this so difficult to understand is the fact that Revit has become the de facto standard for BIM, and with so much interest in the link between laser scanning and BIM one would think this is fertile ground for product development.
From what I can find it seems that you can import point clouds via DXF or IFC’s, but only in very small quantities or slices, and that people are using multiple software packages to perform each required task. It’s almost “laughable” when you think about it, considering the lost opportunity.
When I spoke with the Revit product managers 18 to 24 months ago about their plans for supporting point clouds the answer was that customers were not requesting it, so it was not a priority. Hopefully there is a secret project underway to change all of this. The annual Autodesk product releases are due any time. Let’s see if support for point clouds has made the list of new Revit features.
