POINTCLOUD — Import point cloud

Imports a LAS or LAZ point cloud (LiDAR).

Imports a LiDAR point cloud (LAS or LAZ files) and shows it in the drawing as point objects, in the drawing's coordinates.

Usage

Enter POINTCLOUD or click the button on the Survey tab. The dialog box opens and the command line asks at the same time.
Choose the LAS or LAZ file with Browse or enter its path. The number of points and how many remain after subsampling are shown.
Choose the point colour (RGB, intensity, class or elevation) and, if needed, the file's coordinate system.
Click OK.

Reading is pure Rust (the las crate with LASzip laz), with no C components.
Large clouds are subsampled to a manageable number (maximum points configurable in the dialog): 1 of every N points, spread across the whole file, is kept.
If the file carries its coordinate system (WKT) it is reprojected to the drawing's (GEOGRAPHICLOCATION); if not, you can enter it by hand.
Each point is an ordinary point object: the 2D and 3D viewers draw it and it is saved in the DWG. The massive engine (billions of points) is out of scope in this version.