Good news - apart from the ‘jees’ follow-up!
Enablement may mean to import point clouds, but more to be able to rotate such huge ‘entites’ e.g. by decimating the display during rotation (or indeed to function at all).
PCs rotate magnificently in standalone Pointools, but much more ‘sticky’ in Microstation, which uses Pointools as its PC engine. I was told that Microstation does not have a full implimentation of Pointools, for some tech reason. Got too baffled by Acad/Recap 2018 on 30day trial, so don’t know how PCs work in Acad.
I was also told that the trick that Pointools and Recap do, is to generate about 10 different versions of the PC/mesh, at different LoDs, which can be switched between as appropriate during rotation. And I was told that the way RC works, that’s not possible, which partly explains RC’s speed! This may have just been ‘spoiling’ talk, as it came from a Bentley boffin.
BricsCAD, tho late to the game, look like taking a novel approach (as usual) to PC enablement, involving VR integration somehow!
My hope is for ordinary 2D Architect/Surveyor/Builder users to be able to be able to use orthophotos as ‘as existing’ survey base, for sites and existing buildings, with minimum need for augmentation by manual drafting.
And for 3D ditto users to be able to build their 3D model direct ‘into’ the point cloud/mesh/textured model.