In pursuit of cool

Posted by - March 11, 2015
As the surveying industry develops, a greater number of ingenious applications of the technology are making waves

The numbers don’t lie

Posted by - 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 - 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 - November 19, 2014
Many innovations start out labelled as gimmicks, only to wait for other technologies and culture to catch up with them.…

Autodesk ReCap

Posted by - 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 - 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 - 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 - July 20, 2012
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is mainly focused on newbuild projects, but refurbishment and renovation requires a different approach. Using 3D…