Development of Cloud Point Data Processing Program for 3D BIM and 2D Cross Section Needs

Abstract

The need for technological developments is needed to facilitate performance, accuracy, and effectiveness of work, especially in the field of civil engineering, is needed. With the emergence of innovative LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) technology scanners that are popularly used for 3D printing, developed into LiDAR Scanners for real field scanning. The result of using a LiDAR Scanner is in the form of point cloud data in a certain format, with a large enough memory. The purpose of this research is to use field point cloud data as 3D BIM data and then form a cross-section of the object. For this purpose, a special program is needed that functions to process cloud point data complexly, and is easy to use to change the shape of cloud point data to 3D data surface and 2D cross sections. The method used in this study is by creating a special program to process data point clouds using script code with the python language and several data point cloud processing libraries. In the program, 2 sub-menus will be created with certain functions: 1) Point Cloud (voxel downsampling, outlier reduction, normalize); 2) 3D model (ball pivoting/poisson surface, reduce vertex, slice mesh, transform mesh). In each data processing, the created program can only process on a specific file format; for point cloud processing in .xyz, .xyzn, .xyzrgb, .pts, .ply, .pcd formats; while for 3D data processing models are in .ply, .stl, .obj, .off , .gltf/glb format. The result of data processing using the created program can be a 3D surface with .ply /.obj format, and for cross-section generated 2D data with .jpg / .png format, and can be in the form of .dxf data for Autocad software. 3D surface data can be used as BIM data, while 2D cross-section data can be used as built 2D.