When one wants to remodel his home, he needs to have a computer-generated 3D map of what he is working with. This is a problem if he doesn’t have the electronic blueprints and has to measure the physical dimensions and lay them out in the computer. It is pretty laborious considering he has a big room or a mansion.
A modern scanning technology presents an easy solution for this same job – just with an iPad and the Structure Sensor.
Through an app called Canvas, homeowners and designers alike can simply scan a room in minutes and automatically generate CAD software files. The process is made with functional outputs that architects and engineers can use and manipulate for remodelling.
Point-to-point measurements and as-built baselines are easily done by raw scans of spaces but they have a limitation: it is complicated to create a 3D model out of the given data. But still, they can be used for rework, remodelling or envisioning changes in the scanned space.
This is what Occipital, the company behind the Structure Sensor, aims to harness.
Canvas allows its users to measure entire rooms – everything in view – all at once with the magic of 3D depth sensing. It has the ability to capture fast, accurate dimensions of objects and environments for large-scale reconstruction tasks.
Once the users scan a room and send them to Occipital, they could get the CAD files after two business days and work with it in most modelling software like SketchUp. The sky is the limit upon transforming their present spaces into full-color 3D files wherein they could virtually add just about anything.
Adam Rodnitzky, the company’s VP of marketing, boasts, “I think we’ll probably look back at today as a time, just like the 1830s, when we just started to have photographs.
“We’re now entering the era when we’re going to start having a 3D record of the world around us.”
Source: WIRED
