If you’ve ever held a modern LiDAR scanner or even an iPhone with a lidar sensor, you know exactly what I’m talking about. The industry calls it "reality capture." The rest of us call it
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Reality Capture Crack: Why 3D Scanning is the Most Addictive Tool in AEC If you’ve ever held a modern LiDAR scanner
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It starts innocently enough. A client needs as-builts for a 100-year-old building. The drawings are wrong (they always are). You rent a scanner for a day, set it on a tripod, and hit "Start."
Then it happens.
So go ahead. Set up the scanner. Watch the dots appear. Get your hit of digital reality.