drawing in a pointcloud using BIM v25

Fishplate
Fishplate
in BricsCAD BIM

I have been working on a largish point cloud of a 3 storey steel frame building and just line tracing the wall panels. All went well for a few hours and then bricscad wouldn't snap to cloud any more. Closing and restarting the app solved this for a while. Then the point snap cross changed colour from blue to violet and although I was drwing a line it was not visible in the active floor. If I exit the building manager I can see the lines at 0m elevation. Now I cant draw anything in the point cloud. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Adrian.

Comments

  • Virgil
    Virgil

    Hello.

    If this case is about drawing 2D entities while the top view mode (TVM) is active, then this feature is not fully implemented.
    Consequently, behaviors like the one you described could occur.

    Something useful could be to place the UCS at a certain Z level, and then trace the point cloud using 2D entities - polylines and arcs.
    The 2D entities will be drawn in the XY plane of the current UCS.

    Lines are not useful in this case because they are drawn in 3D and the resulting geometry won't be planar.