This video (it doesn’t have sound) shows the process of importing in data from a Point Cloud file into Revit. In this case, it’s from a Faro scanner. The initial conversion process that you see is because Revit only utililizes .PCG files and it needs to convert any other format to this. In the case of Faro, it’s an FLS file.   This video isn’t intended to show best practices, instead it demonstrates how Revit imports in this data and the speed of which the data can be moved once it is brought in. The original Point Cloud file (FLS) was 106mb in size.  When converted to PCG it ballooned up to 671mb.

Behind the scenes magic:  The only thing that was edited in this video was the conversion time. It took my computer 8 minutes (in real time) to process the conversion from FLS to PCG.  Everything else (panning, zooming, sectioning, etc) in Revit is actual speed…. even the speed it took to import the created FLS file is real time.  My computer specs:  8GB of RAM,  Intel Core i7 CPU (1.60 ghz) and Windows 7 64bit.  So, average speed (at best).

The video can also be downloaded from the following link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9805131/Revit%20FLS.wmv