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3D scanning delivery and archiving

3D scanning delivery and archiving

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3D scanning delivery and archiving

- You've collected a small continent of data, processed it, and marveled at the fruits of your visual bounty, and patted yourself on the back for getting the registration precise, perhaps even beyond the expected standard. Well done. With data in their hand, your client now asks, well, we're trying to bring this into our BIM software, but it's really slow, any thoughts on how to speed this up? You suggest parsing the data, loading bits at a time, maybe trying the point cloud platform you suggested, and so begins the tedious process of working with your client, guiding them on how to handle this data for a real project. This is one of many stories I've personally experienced which taught me a lot about the importance of considering the client's first, their capacity and need, and what I can do to get ahead of the potential pitfalls they'll experience. 3D scan data or point clouds can be tricky to work with, yet there are…

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