Working with point clouds

In BIMcollab Zoom you can add point clouds to your project in the same way as you would add an IFC model to perform a side by side comparison.
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In the menu select File > Add to project and select the point cloud file(s) you wish to add the project.

In the Open dialog, choose 'Point cloud file (*.e57, *pts, *.txt, *.xyz)'.
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When you have selected the correct file, choose ' Open'. The Point cloud will be loaded in BIMcollab Zoom.
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A good workflow when using very large pointcloud files is to choose the menu option File>Add only... when opening a pointcloud file. This way the file will be added to BIMcollab Zoom, but the model is not yet loaded.
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This way the model is not directly loaded and you can first see how many points the pointcloud contains. This is visible in the Summary tab:
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By right-click on the file or a scan of the file, you can choose to load the whole pointcloud, or only a part of it.
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If a point cloud is too large to handle practically, and it consists of multiple scans, you can also unload some scans that are less important.
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In order to load more or less points, right click on the scan in the model tree view and select 'Reload model' in the context model. You can then choose which percentage of points to load.
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Once loaded, the point clouds can be manipulated in the same way as you would an IFC including moving and rotating it. (see Aligning models)
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If you would like to compare the point cloud to your IFC models, add them to to your project as well.

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You can also color a point cloud in order to create more contrast between the point cloud and the IFC model. To do so simply select the point cloud in the model tree and then click on the color selection button in the menu.
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