1. What if we could start over with all the technology we have today?
2. What would a truly integrated 3D built environment system architecture look like?
3. I have to think laser scanning would be one of the foundation technologies.

For those who were not able to attend the live session please visit the Autodesk Civil Engineering Resource Center.

Brent Gelhar from Optech correctly pointed out to me that my comment about structured light laser scanners being like a flash LiDAR was well, let’s say, wrong.

It’s called digital dentistry and what is so impressive is the end to end capability of the solution, at least in the case of 3M’s Lava C.O.S. Chairside Oral Scanner solution.

1. Structured light laser scans excel at scanning fine surfaces at great depth, such as human skin.
2. They use a camera to record the deformation of a line or pattern of light.
3. This makes them fast and accurate since the motion of the scanner is reduced or eliminated.

The National Science Foundation is funding a two-day workshop June 1-2 at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) in Boulder, Colorado.

1. PenBay recently selected Trimble’s Indoor Mobile Mapping System – TIMMS.
2. The system is capable of supporting real world coordinates on the platform.
3. This opens up many “indoor GIS” applications, particularly in public safety.

Intergraph recently announced that their 3D design software, SmartPlant 3D now includes support for point clouds, as well as other 3D enhancements.

1. There are 2 sessions at ILMF10 that caught my attention.
2. The first is on the changing need for breaklines when using LiDAR.
3. The second concerns using Adobe Reader to view 3D models.

Just when you think Direct Dimensions has touched all the bases they report on their virtual aerodynamic analysis in support of the USA luge team.