Reality Capture Applications

Start with the condition your project needs to understand.

The most useful reality-capture scope begins with the problem, the physical environment and the decision the resulting information must support.

Application Explorer

Where reality capture fits.

Each application changes what must be captured, how the dataset is reviewed and which downstream deliverable is appropriate.

Establish a coordinated record where drawings are missing, incomplete or out of date.

What is captured: Visible physical conditions within the agreed project limits.
Who uses it: Design, coordination, construction, facility or fabrication teams.
Next step: Define the decision, site constraints and required output.

Capture the geometry and constraints that proposed alterations must work around.

What is captured: Visible physical conditions within the agreed project limits.
Who uses it: Design, coordination, construction, facility or fabrication teams.
Next step: Define the decision, site constraints and required output.

Preserve equipment, services and structural relationships in congested spaces.

What is captured: Visible physical conditions within the agreed project limits.
Who uses it: Design, coordination, construction, facility or fabrication teams.
Next step: Define the decision, site constraints and required output.

Document dense equipment rooms where manual measurements are hard to organize.

What is captured: Visible physical conditions within the agreed project limits.
Who uses it: Design, coordination, construction, facility or fabrication teams.
Next step: Define the decision, site constraints and required output.

Record routed systems, valves, equipment and support conditions in spatial context.

What is captured: Visible physical conditions within the agreed project limits.
Who uses it: Design, coordination, construction, facility or fabrication teams.
Next step: Define the decision, site constraints and required output.

Create a reusable existing-condition reference for operations and future projects.

What is captured: Visible physical conditions within the agreed project limits.
Who uses it: Design, coordination, construction, facility or fabrication teams.
Next step: Define the decision, site constraints and required output.

Record site conditions at an agreed point in the project workflow.

What is captured: Visible physical conditions within the agreed project limits.
Who uses it: Design, coordination, construction, facility or fabrication teams.
Next step: Define the decision, site constraints and required output.

Give designers and fabricators reliable existing geometry to work from.

What is captured: Visible physical conditions within the agreed project limits.
Who uses it: Design, coordination, construction, facility or fabrication teams.
Next step: Define the decision, site constraints and required output.

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