
Once a site is scanned, a detailed set of data or “points” is captured for further processing. Reality capture is the process of producing a digital 3D model representation of your object, building, or site by scanning it in the field using hardware such as laser scanners or camera-mounted UAVs.

The output is a highly-accurate, actionable set of real-time data, which can be directly connected into 2D and 3D design processes. Reality capture helps teams reduce errors, minimize labor requirements, save time, and reduce risk. Verifying and updating these manually is a lot of leg work.ĭigital reality capture is changing this. You’re almost guaranteed to start a project using static 2D image documentation of existing conditions.


Renovations projects are a particular challenge since the infrastructure or building may be decades old and designed before the age of digital blueprints. As any surveyor or field engineer knows, capturing existing field conditions for an infrastructure project or building renovation is a tedious, manual, often analog, and inaccurate process – not to mention dangerous.
