building 3d terrain

Hi

I'm trying to build a 3d terrain using information extracted from google earth. I have a mesh in .3ds format but its made up of several overlapping mesh planes.

I want to try to clean it up by creating a new mesh with a point cloud plugin.

but I'm having problems converting the 3dfaces into points.

Anybody know how I might do this ?

cheers

I'm having problems converting the 3dfaces into points.

Anybody know how I might do this ?

You might be able to do it with a custom lisp routine, but I don't know of any standard Autocad command that will do it.

What is this point cloud plugin that you mentioned?

Hi

its called 'point cloud for autocad' and developed by Sycode. I have a trial version. If I can get beyond the stage of converting 3dfaces to points then it may turn out to be a good plugin.

I know nothing about lisp - any suggestions on how to find a lisp routine to do this ?

cheers

Anthony

what's the problem with the planes overlapping? don't they match?

what happens if you project a colour (map) on the data "as it is"?