Virtual Reality and Reality Capture Become Reality in Vectorworks Cloud Services
Jeffrey Heimgartner posted on March 28, 2018 | | 90 views
There is a lot to be excited about with the latest release of Vectorworks Cloud Services. These services feature a new “reality capture” feature set, called Photos to 3D Model. Also included is the company’s virtual reality (VR) feature web view VR. Both of these new features, as well as the addition of Bluebeam integration, are available in the latest update to Vectorworks Cloud Services in addition to Service Pack 3 (SP3) of Vectorworks 2018.
Vectorworks Cloud Services is available to anyone who signs up for a free account. Users can share and store files via the included 2 GB of cloud storage, which can upgraded to 20 GB of storage by enrolling in Vectorworks Service Select. Vectorworks Cloud Services can connect directly to Dropbox to further aid file access and sharing.
Vectorworks’s new web view VR (Image courtesy of Vectorworks)
Reality capture has become an integral part of building information modeling (BIM). Capturing site data to help design a construction project or gathering as-built data to confirm that what has been built matches the build plans are just two examples of how reality capture can be used to bring that information into your CAD data. The process is not quite as easy as the creators of the buzz phrase “scan to CAD” would have you believe, though. The new Photos to 3D Model…