If you add up the cost of sending a survey team into the field and implementing this information into a drawing, the Cyclone software quickly pays for itself. The justification is even more compelling when you weigh the construction savings that result from the better quality and more complete as-built information captured by Cyrax. There are dozens of active service providers and systems available. Since early Egyptian times, surveyors have used various instruments to collect measurements. A surveyor first locates a benchmark, then acquires data one point at a time.
Laser scanning accelerates data acquisition.
Three basic types of range measurement techniques are used in 3D laser scanning systems. Triangulation , as the name implies, sends out a laser beam from one end of a known-length oblong scanner and captures the return beam at the other end. By triangulating the angle, the scanner calculates the distance to the point. Accuracy falls off rapidly over longer distances. Immediately after scanning, you can shrink-wrap the 3D point cloud to create a fine, shaded wire mesh 3D model of the facility that you can use for interference checking against proposed designs.