Automating the laborious process of manually tagging building infrastructure assets within laser-point cloud data is a Holy Grail ideal that promises to save time and money. A recently updated suite of software eases that manual workflow and allows hardware and software platforms from various vendors to work in conjunction.
"We go straight from the laser-scan data to intelligent 3D design," says Gary Farrow, vice president of 3D data-capture business management, LFM Software, AVEVA Group, Cambridge, U.K.