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# Create new point cloud

| **Description** | Request to create a new point cloud layer. |
| --------------- | ------------------------------------------ |
| **Endpoint**    | `/path/pointCloud`                         |
| **Method**      | POST                                       |

### Access Level Rules

| **Minimum Access Level** | edit+ on the parent folder or account holder when in the myDrive root |
| ------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |

### Processing Units

| **Processing units** | 0 |
| -------------------- | - |

### Parameters

<table><thead><tr><th>Name</th><th>Description</th><th>Required</th><th>Default</th><th data-hidden>Required</th><th data-hidden>Default</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><code>name</code></td><td>The name of the new point cloud layer.</td><td>true</td><td></td><td>true</td><td></td></tr><tr><td><code>parentId</code></td><td><p>The id of the parent folder of the new path.</p><p>If omitted the new path is placed in your myDrive root.</p></td><td>false</td><td>Default null.</td><td>false</td><td>null</td></tr><tr><td><code>publicAccess</code></td><td><a href="/pages/jWHxOKKaASR2HwgmIQkh">Public access object</a> with properties "hidden" and "accessTier"<br><br>"accessTier" must be between "none" and "edit" and "hidden" must be a boolean.</td><td>false</td><td>Default {accessTier:"none", hidden:true}.</td><td>false</td><td>publicAccessLevel</td></tr><tr><td><code>metadata</code></td><td>A JSON with properties "description", "properties",  "license" and "link" containing metadata of the path.</td><td>false</td><td>Default null.</td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>