NEW - PointCloud FreeEdition! AutoCAD 2011 now contains a native point cloud engine which is powerful enough to handle up to 2 billion points of scan data. Currently, AutoCAD only supports a few data formats for import to .PCG. kubit is happy to fill this gap by providing many more import options with our new PointCloud FreeEdition. Users can now take advantage of the powerful AutoCAD .PCG engine and import the data from their laser scanner directly into AutoCAD. Yes, it is free! |
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kubit PointCloud is the premier software for working with laser scan data within the AutoCAD environment. In addition to managing millions of points, PointCloud offers a variety of functions, which facilitate and speed up the processing and evaluation of pointclouds in AutoCAD. Kubit has developed PointCloud for basic cloud manipulation and evaluation as well as PointCloud Pro for advanced modelling and clash detection tools. PointCloud is hardware independent meaning that it will work with just about any scanner on the market.
PointCloud: Multiple point clouds can be edited and worked with simultaneously giving users a virtually unlimited amount of information within one DWG. Sections/slices along AutoCAD curves and AutoCAD UCS’s are created effortlessly. These slices and contours are easily managed through kubit’s section manager and points can be snapped using AutoCAD osnaps. In addition, PointCloud supports all viewing modes and visual styles.
PointCloud Pro: kubit understands that the ability to merely import large data sets into AutoCAD is not the only advantage to point cloud technology. The manipulation and modelling of this data must be made efficient. PointCloud Pro supplies a number of advanced modelling features that make this process much less demanding. In addition to clash detection, automatic line fitting, cylinder (pipe) fitting and plane fitting tools help to speed the modelling process up tremendously. Defined planes can be easily intersected resulting in accurate object edges and corners.
Functionality to overlay or orientate photos (provided by the scanner) into the processing speeds up user workflow and increases the precision of the evaluation. Lines drawn on these high resolution images are accurately relayed into the point cloud. The ability to work on a high resolution image versus a lower quality cloud means that corners, edges and lines are determined much more easily and accurately.
"I am using the PointCloud software. This, in my opinion, is the single most important advancement in point cloud management in the past 12 months. Your software will now allow me to scan and forget."
Mark Phelan, Maptech Group
