barkest Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 (edited) Ok its not gonna happen but still Edited May 16, 2017 by barkest Quote Link to comment
Markvl Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 It does appear to be able to upload to a sketchup file. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted May 16, 2017 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted May 16, 2017 Is the 48 hour turnaround because they actually have a human looking it over and modeling it? That time seems a bit odd for just a server operation unless theyre keeping costs low. To clarify; I find this fascinating and cool, just wondering about the odd details. Quote Link to comment
barkest Posted May 16, 2017 Author Share Posted May 16, 2017 12 minutes ago, JimW said: the 48 hour turnaround because they actually have a human looking it over and modeling i I thought the same. A small army of CAD Elves maybe? Quote Link to comment
bc Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 I can see this working but to what degree of accuracy? Quote Link to comment
rDesign Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 1 hour ago, bc said: I can see this working but to what degree of accuracy? Their website says the following regarding the precision of the scanning hardware device: 0.14% at 40cm, 1% at 1m Structure Sensor precision Quote Link to comment
Jim Smith Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 19 minutes ago, rDesign said: Their website says the following regarding the precision of the scanning hardware device: 0.14% at 40cm, 1% at 1m Structure Sensor precision So not ready for AEC yet. I was hopeful about an number of apps, but they still don't compare to a tape & a notebook &/or a laser device. Someday, but I may out of the biz by then. Quote Link to comment
DanJansenson Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 (edited) I think that if the 1% level of precision at three feet holds for distances beyond that, it could easily be reasonably suitable for most residential projects. A fifteen-foot room dimension would read +/- 1.8 inches, and that is well within the error margin for most manual measurements with tape. Not ideal, and a laser scan would obviously be far more accurate, but good enough for many jobs, especially if backed up with occasional manual measurements. My issue with this is that it would be hard to transfer the cost of the equipment and the service to clients for payment. At the moment, I can hire someone to do as-builts, and then charge for it as a discrete reimbursable, similar to printing at a bureau. In the past, when I printed using my own plotter, I had difficulty getting reimbursed for that, and now bureau printing is an explicit–and less expensive–reimbursable. Edited May 17, 2017 by DanJansenson 1 Quote Link to comment
rDesign Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 (edited) 22 hours ago, JimW said: Is the 48 hour turnaround because they actually have a human looking it over and modeling it? That time seems a bit odd for just a server operation unless theyre keeping costs low. 22 hours ago, barkest said: I thought the same. A small army of CAD Elves maybe? Apparently, yes - in this blog article over on the SketchUp blog, they say the following: Quote This “last mile” of CAD is really hard to automate, which is why we have a human in the loop to ensure the results are always professional-grade and design-ready. Edited May 17, 2017 by rDesign 1 Quote Link to comment
bc Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 I would tend to work more accurately than 2" in 15 ft. But that's probably just me. Perhaps all in good time. The cost of these "website generated" drawings could be the driver. So some machine is going to interpret nuances in elevations or variables in wall thickness. Old school processes might prevail for a while. bc Quote Link to comment
barkest Posted May 17, 2017 Author Share Posted May 17, 2017 3 hours ago, rDesign said: This “last mile” of CAD is really hard to automate, which is why we have a human in the loop to ensure the results are always professional-grade and design-ready. I was sure elves were involved (one scan to rule them all) Quote Link to comment
rowbear97 Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 This looks promising but no substitute for a survey. It looks like a point cloud. Couldn't we use the functionality in VW Landmark to import the raw data and go from there? Quote Link to comment
Andy Broomell Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 This Old House uploaded a segment on this technology over the weekend: 1 Quote Link to comment
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