In pursuit of cool Posted by Greg Corke - March 11, 2015 As the surveying industry develops, a greater number of ingenious applications of the technology are making waves
NEWS: NCTech automates HDR point cloud colourisation Posted by Greg Corke - February 27, 2015 ColourCloud software to ‘transform’ laser scans with fast point cloud colourisation overlay
The numbers don’t lie Posted by Greg Corke - February 5, 2015 Group2 is using Reality Computing to bring control and efficiency to structural steel development and construction to UCAMA’s retrofit project.…
Feature: Scan-to-BIM Posted by Greg Corke - January 27, 2015 The ability to capture as-built conditions in 3D is finding many new application area beyond surveying. We evaluate the latest…
Reality extensions in AEC Posted by Greg Corke - November 19, 2014 Many innovations start out labelled as gimmicks, only to wait for other technologies and culture to catch up with them.…
PCIe SSDs for CAD, BIM and point clouds Posted by Greg Corke - September 29, 2014 The performance of PCIe Solid State Drives (SSDs) may look incredible on paper but how does it translate to the…
Autodesk ReCap Posted by Martyn Day - May 27, 2014 In 2012 Autodesk launched ReCap, a platform for the growing reality capture market. Since then, the company has expanded its…
CyArk 500 Posted by Super User - December 1, 2013 The CyArk 500 Challenge aims to digitally capture 500 global heritage structures in 3D, with the help of partners Autodesk,…
Point clouds at Bentley Posted by Martyn Day - September 17, 2012 Bentley Systems is very serious about point clouds. In the last twelve months alone it acquired Pointools and added powerful…
Scan-to-BIM: a reality check Posted by Martyn Day - July 20, 2012 Building Information Modelling (BIM) is mainly focused on newbuild projects, but refurbishment and renovation requires a different approach. Using 3D…