It is an interesting add-in for Revit that can import point data into the conceptual environment. It was written to “narrow the gap between computational concept design, terrestrial laser scanning and Building Information Modeling.”
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Version 2.1 has just been released (25 May 2013)
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GreenSpider conveniently parses ASCII text files representing 3D vertexes, whether generated by computational modeling software or terrestrial laser scanning equipment.
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GSpoints and GScurves. The first one simply imports vertex point cloud as reference points in mass modeling environment, while the second traces a spline interpolation among imported points sorted through a TSP process, in order to build surfaces after recursive .GSP imports.
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Decimated laser scanner point clouds are imported this way in Revit as many times as needed (using a reset function every time in Translator module), and generated curves can be used to originate surfaces very close to their real geometry.
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GreenSpider – The Autodesk Revit point clouds plugin – TC Project
Heads-up:
#GreenSpider 2.1 for #Revit almost ready to launch. Still some work on Eclipse installer!
— Simone Garagnani (@SiliconSimon) May 25, 2013
Many thanks for your interest in my work and for publish this post! GreenSpider is still a prototype but I hope it will grow better and better in the future!