Grasshopper
Volvox
Volvox enables you to create, edit and analyze Point Cloud data. You can download it from food4Rhino.
The plugin is developed in the frame of the DURAARK project: http://duraark.eu/
DURAARK (Durable Architectural Knowledge) is a collaborative project developing methods and tools for the semantic enrichment and long-term preservation of architectural knowledge and data. It focuses on establishing working practices and links between semantically rich BIM models and unstructured Point Cloud data. It Is funded through the European Commision's FP7 Programme and is running between 02/2013 - 01/2016. (Grant Agreement no: 600908)
This plugin is developed as a part of DURAARK project at the Center for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) by Henrik Leander Evers and Mateusz Zwierzycki.
Recommended downloads :
If you use the tool and want to refer to us please to so by citing the summarizing paper of ours:
Zwierzycki, Mateusz, Evers, Henrik Leander and Tamke, Martin (2016) Parametric Architectural Design with Point-clouds – Volvox. In Herneoja, Aulikki; Toni Österlund and Piia Markkanen (eds.), Complexity & Simplicity - Proceedings of the 34th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, 22-26 August 2016, pp. 673-682
The paper is open access
Zeynep Aksoz
Thank you mateusz this was really helpful!
Sep 12, 2017
Vongsawat Wongkijjalerd
Hey, not sure if its a limitation or a bug,
But I added a bunch of user keys to a point cloud, culled it according to one of the keys, and found out the culling component had deleted all the other keys as well..
Oct 9, 2017
dahchacho
Hoping @Martin Tamke will see. Been having trouble loading smaller sized E57 files into Volvox. Larger files downloaded from duraark.eu are loading fine. But any file from even the data resource under 1000mb isn’t reading. The error occurs when connecting the data path into the load E57 component. Error Message 1. Solution exception:Object reference not set to an instance of an object. This occurs also through all E57 components. If anyone else has had this error happen on smaller files what was your solution. The forum will not allow me to upload the e57 file but it was made through Autodesk ReCap
Mar 7, 2019