3D Laser Scanning Services

Capturing high-resolution three-dimensional data of complex conditions across any environment with 3D laser scanners provides a fast, efficient way to capture millions of data points in an “as is" environment.

3D laser scanners are a versatile, accurate solution that allows companies to obtain data they previously could not. This in turn facilitates making informed decisions while saving valuable time and money.

Our scans are registered together in the field and then aligned to your CAD (0,0,0) so all our customers need to do is insert or Xref the point cloud into their AutoDesk CAD software.

Scan data is linked directly into your 2D or 3D AutoCAD environment for the development of new or existing plant layouts. With laser scanning, we have the means to bring as built data directly into AutoCAD layouts without having to translate mark-ups on a drawing.

Field checking with tape measures is slow and filled with errors. Laser scanning takes this process completely out of the standard layout workflow, improving accuracy while reducing design time.

Working in the architectural world, you most likely will bring your scans directly into the Revit/BIM environments. Scans are commonplace in the architectural community in the estimating, design and engineering areas. Scans are increasingly used as a starting point for older buildings where no engineering drawings exist.

With laser scanning, you not only have accurate “as built” drawings to start, but you now have the ability to use clash detection tools that will find interferences between CAD models and point clouds. We now have the ability to run collision detections and pinch points between the existing as-built environment and new proposed changes.

We can use our scans and 3D models to generate a detailed report showing every pinch point per the customer’s standards and hard collisions throughout the system. There is no longer a need to send a team of engineers to the facility to try to find all these pinch points with tape measures, or other manual means.

Using 3D point cloud data and AutoCAD software, we are able to cut a cross section anywhere in the point cloud. This can be used to create accurate 2D drawings of the existing facility layout or simply take the dimensions in question, and measure each individual cross section required. This avoids issues such as missed dimensions, poor manual translation, and lost data leading to additional site visits.

The overall project timeline will accelerate because there will be just one “data set” that all employees are working from. All employees have the ability to understand the exact conditions of the environment and adjust, schedule, react, etc. to those conditions.

Laser scanning allows all employees to understand and work directly in a single source of truth.