1. A 15 acre culturally significant site in Saudi Arabia included the ruins of a number of mud buildings. Scanning was the only practical method for capturing the as found condition.
2. Much to the surprise of many AU attendees the firm was able to come up with a workflow that eventually loaded the point clouds into Revit.
3. The Revit product managers need to hear from users that point cloud support is important.

1. The last day was as good as the first. Word from the feedback session was the majority of the requests were software related.
2. Dr. Hesse is using a phase based scanner turned on its side in 2D mode to record structural deformations in real time under dynamic loads.
3. They are using scanning and other remote sensing techniques to search for a missing da Vinci painting.
4. Quantapoint announced integration support for point cloud images in Revit.

1. Alice Labs has ported their Studio Clouds point cloud plug from Maya to 3D Studio Max.
2. It can reportedly handle billions of points smoothly and efficiently.
3. This allows for streamlined rendering and modeling with the point cloud in the background.