Andrew Lees

Thanks @michaelk some good tips there. I think shaded view makes it a little more punchy. I definitely will do it room by room next time. I can also imagine that a tripod would make it much better - kind of more like a proper fixed point cloud device. The Nomad instructions just said start it up and walk around - so that is what I did. @Tom W. I was hoping that the weird tartan pattern was something easily fixed - like a grid setting I don't know about that can just be toggled off. As I said, I'm new to VW so what is obvious to seasoned users might be completely unknown to me. It seems a little more useable now though, so I will persevere and see if I can translate this into a serviceable plan.

I am new to Vectorworks and this is my first attempt to use point clouds captured with Nomad. Now, my scan of this floor plan seems to be a bit of mash-up, but that is not my main issue right now. I have seen a VW video on this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cQv1da242Q) and the point cloud model shown in that seems to behave somewhat differently than mine. In the video the presenter is able to zoom in and trace the point cloud - which looks great. When I zoom in however I get two problems: The density of the point cloud seems to decrease - to the point of it being too vague to find hard edges to trace once I get close. I have a grid pattern superimposed over my point cloud. The size of this grid (which is manifest as gaps in the point cloud) gets denser and more obscuring the more I zoom in. The attached images show progressive zoom-ins as described above. This is an orthogonal top view (not plan view) with section box cutting the horizontal slice. For info, the point cloud was imported at 100% points resolution. Suggestions? Thanks