LusoCAD 2025 - New Point Cloud Tools
With LusoCAD Undet Point Cloud, you can easily create point cloud projects with data from any laser scanner or drone in Undet Indexer, then open, transform and manage them directly in LusoCAD (Supported formats: *.E57, *.FLS, *.RCP/RCS, *.PTX, *.ZFS, *.LAS, *.LAZ, *.PTS, *.PLY, *.DP, *.FPR, *.LSPROJ, *.FWS, *.CL3, *.CLR, *.RSP, ASCII / NEZ (X,Y,Z/i/RGB) and customised ASCII / TXT file format import). LusoCAD Point Cloud also offers interactive editing and visualisation features, allowing users to view, analyse and navigate digital data as a panoramic view in the Undet Browser, speeding up the creation process.
Undet Point Cloud
The Undet Point Cloud tab provides a variety of tools for processing, visualising and managing point cloud data.
Visualisation and display
LusoCAD Point Cloud offers various visualisation modes that allow you to understand the geometry and focus on critical areas. You can adjust the point density settings to match the performance of the hardware, ensuring smooth processing even with large data sets.
Clipping Box Tools
The Clipping Box tools allow you to focus precisely on sections of a point cloud. You can create clipping boxes by line or rectangle and define the thickness and orientation, improving control over the data and making it easier to work with specific areas.
Feature and Mesh Extraction
The Feature Extraction tools allow quick detection and extraction of lines and wall planes from point cloud data, facilitating the efficient creation of CAD drawings. Mesh tools allow users to edit and modify meshes in their CAD drawings, making them ideal for representing terrain or structural details.
Draping tools
The draping tools allow polylines and objects to be precisely draped over the point cloud, aligning them with real-world contours to ensure a precise fit for design applications.
Generating Orthophotos and Profiles
The orthographic and profile image tools convert point clouds into high-resolution images. Adjustable resolution, rendering fonts and thickness settings help to capture details of the point cloud.
Undet Browser
The Undet Browser visualisation synchronises with the LusoCAD environment, allowing users to view panoramic images and check sections in real time, which is especially useful for quality control and analysis.
Undet Floor Plan
Undet Floor Plan improves the experience of working with floor plans by providing tools for vectorisation, annotation and efficient data manipulation.
Cutaway View
Section View provides tools for creating detailed sections directly from point cloud data, such as the Auto Line tool, opening tool, along with insertion tools for walls, doors and windows, making it easy to extract and detail key architectural elements.
Plan view
Floor Plan View allows efficient drawing and annotation of floor plans, including features for quick selection of layers, floor level markings and quick insertion of blocks, improving clarity and detail in drawings.
Ceiling view
Ceiling View also includes tools for annotating ceiling levels, quick layer selection and adding structural details to ceiling plans, ensuring both accuracy and efficiency.
Axle Control and View
LusoCAD offers UCS adjustment tools for precise alignment, along with view control options such as view change shortcuts, multiple viewports, visual styles and Point Cloud Orbit. These features allow for fluid 3D navigation and precise positioning of elements on floor plans.
Design and Modification
You can access LusoCAD's standard drawing and editing tools for quick design, along with layer management features that keep your drawings organised and adaptable to your design needs.
Express Tools
Undet Floor Plan offers additional tools, such as Measure Geometry, Get Distance, FitMarks, which further expand point cloud drawing capabilities, improving accuracy and optimising workflows, allowing more efficient manipulation of point cloud data directly within LusoCAD.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does the LusoCAD Point Cloud software suite consist of?
LusoCAD combines the powerful tools of the Undet Point Cloud plugin with the simplicity of LusoCAD to offer an intuitive workflow that allows you to quickly create 2D drawings based on high-precision as-built point clouds. It consists of:
- LusoCAD software integrated with Undet Point Cloud and Floor Plan plugins
- Undet Indexer (Project Creator)
- Undet Browser (Point Cloud Viewer)
What point cloud file formats can I import into LusoCAD?
You can import any point cloud from a 3D laser scanner, UAV or photogrammetry software.
Supported formats: *.E57, *.FLS, *.RCP/RCS, *.PTX, *.ZFS, *.LAS, *.LAZ, *.PTS, *.PLY, *.DP, *.FPR, *.LSPROJ, *.FWS, *.CL3, *.CLR, *.RSP, ASCII / NEZ (X,Y,Z/i/RGB) and customised ASCII / TXT formats.
It is recommended to use structured point clouds to access all the functions of LusoCAD Point Cloud and Undet Browser.
What is LusoCAD? Is it the same as AutoCAD?
LusoCAD is an alternative CAD software with high compatibility with ACAD. Thanks to continuous improvement and efficient innovation, LusoCAD stands out today in performance, stability and other key indicators and has quickly become a popular and valuable alternative on the market. It offers all the familiar functions of ACAD, making for a smooth transition, as well as innovative tools designed to optimise your design process.
Is the trial licence limited in functionality?
The trial version can be used for thirty days with all functions available.
Once the trial period is over, it will still be possible to open Undet projects and access basic functions such as visualisation settings, general visualisation and the Clipping Box tool. Advanced functions such as feature extraction, mesh generation or draping will no longer be available and you will need to activate your licence.
Is it possible to migrate the licence between computers?
Yes, there are no restrictions on transferring the licence between different devices.
I have very large point clouds; how does LusoCAD manage them?
LusoCAD Point Cloud is optimised to work with massive point clouds, even hundreds of gigabytes, on a conventional personal device, so file size is not a problem.
Does LusoCAD offer the same point cloud management functions as AutoCAD?
LusoCAD Point Cloud significantly improves point cloud management compared to AutoCAD's integrated tools. In addition to the basic import, clipping and analysis functions, it offers feature extraction, dynamic visualisation, advanced clipping tools, mesh generation and panorama integration, which creates more agile and precise workflows.
What are the system requirements for LusoCAD Point Cloud in order to achieve good performance?
There are no special requirements; today's workstations or gaming notebooks can handle massive point clouds:
- Operating System: Windows 10 and 11 64-bit OS.
- RAM: 16 GB or more
- Hard Drive: a solid state drive (SSD). For maximum performance, use an M.2 SSD.
- CPU: Intel Core i5 and later.
- GPU: NVidia or AMD graphics processor with support for OpenGL version 4.4 or higher. For example: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 / GTX 1050 Ti / GTX 1650 / RTX 3050 / Quadro K2000 and later. AMD Radeon R9 270 / FirePro W5100 and later.
Software dependencies: Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015-2022 and .NET Framework 4.8 or higher are required.
Can a point cloud project be stored on a server and used by several people?
Only one user can open a point cloud project from the server at the same time. To avoid performance loss, the network connection speed should be 10 Gbps for download and upload. Otherwise, we recommend copying the project to a local SSD disc.
Can I run LusoCAD Point Cloud on virtual machines?
Yes, virtual machines are compatible.
Do LusoCAD Point Cloud projects support large coordinate systems, such as those used in state or aerial LiDAR?
Yes, if you have scan files in large or state coordinate systems (e.g. UAV, aerial LiDAR, etc.), you can create an Undet project.
All Undet plugins have "coordinate system transformation" tools.
For example, if you try to open the project in a wide coordinate system, the Undet plugin will suggest moving the point cloud to coordinates (0,0,0). At any time, you can change the project's coordinate system from (0,0,0) to the original one with large values.
We do not recommend generating deliverables using the point cloud in large coordinate systems, as this can lead to errors when using modelling tools and cause the initial visualisation to fail when zooming in.
Can I scale or resize point clouds with LusoCAD Point Cloud?
The Undet plugin for LusoCAD maintains the initial structure and scale of the file. Using the "coordinate system transformation" tools, you can move and rotate the project, but scaling is disabled.
All scan files must be registered and in the same scale and coordinate system.
Can I snap to the points in the point cloud?
Yes, you can snap to any point in the cloud. Just make sure that the ObjectSnap tool is activated with the "Node" setting option.
Note: We recommend keeping the Node option permanently disabled. It's better to use "CTRL + right click" and select the "Node" adjustment for a single use. It will be a one-off adjustment; if you need to adjust many points to the cloud, activate ObjectSnap with the "Node" option enabled.
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