From the course: Reality Capture Foundations for AEC

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The delivery and archival problem

The delivery and archival problem

From the course: Reality Capture Foundations for AEC

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The delivery and archival problem

- Cloud software has been useful to share project information relatively quickly with team members and clients. It has often been a better choice when sending relatively small files and makes more sense than sending external hard drives around through snail mail. However, since the boom of reality capture and the large data files this technology produces, many people have taken a step back in time and resorted to using external hard drives again to move this data around, Due to slow upload and download speeds inherit with large data transfer over the internet. Not only that but since this technology is constantly changing, with software companies continually innovating. We are currently seeing data formats quickly becoming extinct, and even unusable from one moment to the next. In that sense, reality capture technology, while very useful still has data management challenges. To meet these challenges for data…

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