Bring your visualizations into context with Project Helix, a powerful technology prototype enabling display and rendering of 3D laser scanning/LiDAR data sets with Autodesk® 3ds Max® and Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design software. With the 3ds Max Point Cloud Tools you can more quickly import as-built site references to help evaluate and visualize your designs in the context of their surrounding elements. Point cloud data sets are often created by 3D scanners and represent a set of measured vertices in a three-dimensional coordinate system. Using an automatic process, these devices measure a large number of points on the surface of an object and output a point cloud as a data file.
The Point Cloud Tool for 3ds Max and 3ds Max Design allows you to:
■Import .PTS format point cloud data into 3ds Max or 3ds Max Design scenes (release 2010, 2011, and 2012)
■Display the point cloud data in the 3ds Max viewport with a variety of rendering options and levels of detail
■Render point clouds using the mental ray® renderer*
■Slice point clouds into pieces using geometric display volumes
■Export multiple clouds or parts of clouds to new .PTS files
* mental ray is a registered trademark of mental images GmbH licensed for use by Autodesk, Inc.
The Point Cloud Tool for 3ds Max and 3ds Max Design allows you to:
■Import .PTS format point cloud data into 3ds Max or 3ds Max Design scenes (release 2010, 2011, and 2012)
■Display the point cloud data in the 3ds Max viewport with a variety of rendering options and levels of detail
■Render point clouds using the mental ray® renderer*
■Slice point clouds into pieces using geometric display volumes
■Export multiple clouds or parts of clouds to new .PTS files
* mental ray is a registered trademark of mental images GmbH licensed for use by Autodesk, Inc.
