tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-252017402011-11-27T15:17:56.272-08:00Now here is a simple blog authored by a 3D laser scanner user to provide basic information about scanning technology, products, processes, uses, industry background and other simple explanations of what's going on in the fast growing laser scanning industry.Tim Redd, PLS 7527 (Calif.)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10121545867012218672noreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25201740.post-54637688253812410582009-09-04T08:29:00.000-07:002009-09-04T10:01:09.621-07:00

Even in the middle of this historic recession manufacturers continue to improve their offers. You might think this is pointless in these hard times, like trying to sell sunscreen to Eskimos in winter, but then you could be wrong about that. When is the right time to announce a new product? When the product is ready to ship, or when the buyers decides it's time for a new product? Maybe a

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Thanks to everyone who has recently been encouraging me to keep posting to this blog. I didn't realize how many people were following my writings on laser scanning. One of the distractions which cause delays in the blog was an article I was writing for Cal Surveyor. Cal Surveyor is a quarterly magazine published by the California Land Surveyors Association. You can view the article on page 28

Tim Redd, PLS 7527 (Calif.)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10121545867012218672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25201740.post-80455842957734499142008-05-24T23:42:00.000-07:002008-05-24T23:48:33.212-07:00

Now here is an organization you should check out. Cyark is a non-profit organization devoted to promoting the virtual documentation of cultural and historical sites throughout the world. It’s charismatic leader is Ben Kacyra the founded of Cyra, the company that really put laser scanners in the hands of surveyors. He started it all. I’ve worked with Ben for a few years now on a couple of local

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Like I said recently in my presentation at the CLSA conference, you should be scanning if your clients need it or request it, if it would be useful in your everyday surveying projects or if you simply want to jump in and be a pioneer. If your survey practice is a typical small operation with a few crews or less, scanning may only be useful if you are performing site topos and as-builts, interior

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Laser Scanning for land surveying and civil engineering purposes is such a relatively new technology that most of us, whether earlier adopters or new surveyor on the scene, have had to resort to inventing helter-skelter fashion work flows, especially for the post processing of our scan data. One idea or step follows another until we are temporarily satisfied with the results. Several projects

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So many new things to tell you about. Laser scanning for the AEC industry has been lukewarm at best for quite some the time. All the hype from vendors has fueled lots of articles in the various industry magazines. Most of the actual use out side of petrol industry is limited to a few pioneers, big firm which have embraced scanning and a few assorted niche areas. But I feel the changes coming.

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Cyclone is a full featured software suite by Leica with separate modules for controlling scanners (works with all Leica models), registration of multiple scans, modeling, and much more. All work done on the scan data is performed with the point data in Leica's proprietary file format for points known as an .imp file.

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RealWorks Survey office software is Trimble's software suite with separate modules for registration of multiple scans sets, modeling, and many more survey friendly functions. I must admit that I know very little about the actual performance of the various modules but I am told that it is more intuitive than some software suites but I haven't been able to verify this yet. I plan to thought. One

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Welcome to my first post for what promises to be a valuable source of information on laser scanning for surveyors and engineers. I just returned from Houston, site of the third annual SPAR POINT RESEACH conference on 3D laser scanning. Great show. Tom and his crew did a great job of bringing together many experts on this head-spinning new technology. If you are new to scanning, this would have

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Our firm recently decided to rent out our scanners when not in use by our own staff. This has worked out well so far. Most of the surveyors inquiring about rentals already have training and skills, their firms have just decided to not buy their own scanner (yet) or their own scanner is in for repairs or calibration.

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