Combining Data from Multiple Platforms Provides Accurate Deliverables

Here’s a little substation eye candy compliments of our own CJ Ruch and Dan Palmer, Laser Scanning Technicians extraordinaire! Of course it’s an undisclosed location... Maser Consulting’s Static Laser Scanning department was tasked with scanning and modeling an electrical substation located in the US Northeast. The field scanning portion of this job required set-ups at 34 individual locations. The client was provided with a deliverable that included a model in AutoDesk Civil3D format. The cleaned and unified point cloud consisted of approximately 3.4 billion points, contained within a roughly 63 GB database. CJ used Leica Cyclone to model all the substation components, while Dan Palmer used Edgewise from ClearEdge 3D, to model all of the steelwork. ... Read More