DURAARK publication on automated creation of BIM models from Point Clouds

Martin Tamke — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 11:51:49 +0000

The DURAARK partners from University of Bonn (Ochmann, S., Vock, R., Wessel, R., and Klein, R. ) have recently published ajournal article on the “Automatic Reconstruction of Parametric Building Models from Indoor Point Clouds” in the highly esteemed journal “Computers & Graphics”.

The paper introduces and discusses the approaches to the generation of BIM models from laser scan data. The outcome of this research is very promising and has been tested on an extensive set of Point Clouds, that were collected from stakeholders. Many of these are as well publicallyavailable on data.duraark.eu

more information in the published paper and slides

DURAARK releases new version of VOLVOX Point Cloud Plugin for Rhino

Martin Tamke — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 17:09:37 +0000

The DURAARK partner CITA has released version 0.3.0.0 of the popular point cloud plugin VOLVOX for Rhino/Grasshopper. The highlight of this release is the full support of E57 format (im- and export).
Further new features in Volvox 0.3.0.0 :
– Volvox is now distributted with an installer
– E57 Exporter – also within the Engine/EngineX
– Script Cloud component enables the user to write custom VB.NET code to process the point cloud
– E57 Metadata now outputs scanner positions
– Point cloud type now stores the scanner position as well (that’s useful with E57 files. Position follows the transformations of the point cloud
– Several reported bugs were killed

The plugin can be downloaded from here (food4Rhino)
Manuals, Forums and discussions are on here (Grasshopper3d)
and the source code for the plugin is finally available on the DURAARK github and for the .net E57 library as well here on Github

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DURAARK publication on automated creation of BIM models from Point Clouds

DURAARK releases new version of VOLVOX Point Cloud Plugin for Rhino