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Scan to BIM is the process of using laser scanning technology to develop a point cloud documenting an existing structure to a greater degree of accuracy. Using measuring tools manually to document an existing project is outdated and currently being replace by Scan to BIM.
Point Cloud
Point clouds are generated by shooting laser rays towards the building (interior/exterior) from multiple directions. Each obstruction to the ray is documented as a point and a collection of several such points makes a 3D surface. The accuracy levels of point clouds are possible up to 5mm. Point clouds are complex and involve heavy data sets, requiring proper planning and hardware to manage the same.
BIM Conversion
Although point clouds as-is can be used accurately measure the distances and sizes of the building elements, the obvious next step to be able to use the data is by converting them to BIM Models. Conversion of point clouds to BIM Models is a manual modeling activity using the point cloud as the back grounds.
All major BIM enabled tools have the features to import the point clouds for referencing. However , efforts to develop an automatic pattern recognition to enable the software to covert the point cloud data into a BIM Model with little manual work are currently in progress.
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