{"id":106,"date":"2014-10-31T14:11:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T08:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.co.uk\/blog\/?p=106"},"modified":"2014-10-31T14:11:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T08:41:07","slug":"what-is-file-positioning-in-revit-and-how-to-place-point-cloud-files-in-current-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.co.uk\/blog\/what-is-file-positioning-in-revit-and-how-to-place-point-cloud-files-in-current-project\/","title":{"rendered":"What is file positioning in Revit and how to place point cloud files in current project?"},"content":{"rendered":"

File positioning is nothing but the process of placing or locating the newly linked files in specific locations in ongoing Revit project<\/strong>. While creating 3D BIM Services<\/a><\/strong> in Revit, a lot of additional information apart from clients’ specifications is required by project execution team. Such information is always received by the service providing company in different file formats. Indexing and scaling of these files are required before linking or importing them to Revit project.<\/p>

What is Indexing?<\/h2>

Indexing is the process of converting a raw format file into a Revit \nreadable file format. So the scanned data which is often obtained in raw\n format files is normally converted to .rcp file or .rcs file formats. \nBoth .rcp file or .rcs file formats can be easily linked to current \nproject by Revit users.<\/p>

• .rcp file stands for Reality Capture Project File<\/p>

• And .rcs file stands for Reality Capture Scan file<\/p>

• In a .rcp format file multiple .rcs files are contained<\/p>

File positioning in Revit<\/h2>

Auto- Center to Center: While importing a point cloud file in Revit, \nits users have to select the location of the file before importing it in\n the project. In other words, Revit users have to decide where to place \nthe file in Revit project once it is imported, so depending upon what \nthey have to select a location such as ‘Auto-Center to Center.’ When \n‘Auto- Center to Center’ is selected by Revit users, it helps in placing\n the center of point cloud bounding box into the center of models \nbounding box. However sometimes what happens is the model lacks \nvisibility and due to which this center point also lacks visibility in \ncurrent view. To make it visible Revit users should set Zoom to Zoom \nview. This assists in placing the view in the center of Revit model.<\/p>

Auto- Origin to Origin: ‘Auto- Origin to Origin’ is also used for \nportioning linked models in current Revit models. ‘Auto-Origin to \nOrigin’ option is optimized by Revit users for easily aligning the \nproject base points of both the host model and linked model.<\/p>

Auto- By shared coordinates: By using ‘Auto- By Shared Coordinates’ \nRevit users can place the point cloud origin to the origin of shared \ncoordinates. Revit users can access it with the assistance of survey \nbase point.<\/p>

Above mentioned are some of the options that are present in Revit Family Creation<\/a><\/strong> for importing and placing the files in the current project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

File positioning is nothing but the process of placing or locating the newly linked files in specific locations in ongoing Revit project. While creating 3D BIM Services in Revit, a lot of additional information apart from clients’ specifications is required by project execution team. Such information is always received by the service providing company in different file formats. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_image_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teslacad.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}