Be sure and Pin the point cloud in place so it does not get accidentally moved.However, often the setting will need to be “Center to Center” and moved into position. “Origin to Origin” or “Shared Coordinates” may work for positioning.From the Insert tab, select the Point Cloud button and select this “.rcp” file. Typically, a file with a “.rcp” extension will be provided to you. It only addresses using the point cloud for creating a Revit model. This article does not address how to create a point cloud or manipulating it outside of Revit. Therefore, this article is geared to those not having any additional tools. There are some tools on the market that assist in getting a Revit model from a point cloud, but many people do not have the financial resources for them or rarely use point clouds. While I am sure some others do things a bit different, I have found that these work well for me.

In my Revit model creation from point clouds, I use a few techniques that I am sharing in this article to help ease the process for you. Points clouds are becoming more commonly used as a resource for creating a Revit model.

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