Point Clouds in AutoCAD

Since point clouds have been introduced to the CAD world, users have been thinking "Point Clouds offer a great deal of information, but how can I use it to start my CAD model.  The 2016 release of AutoCAD has added a great set of tools to enable users to begin their CAD model from the point cloud.  These tools include how to extract edges and corners (points) from interpreted planes in the point cloud.  The most useful tool is the Extract Section Lines command.  This allows the user to create a section plane, and extract geometry of the point cloud to the section plane.

 I recently was asked to help a customer take a ReCap point cloud to AutoCAD to help develop elevation views.  I struggled to find any good help on the new tools.  To help the customer I recorded a Screencast of the work flow.  I though a lot of people could find the workflow helpful, so I recorded a version of the Screencast that shows the process with the Tech Shop sample ReCap file.

The video can be found on the Autodesk Knowledge Network HERE

Thanks for reading,

Steve