

Request to have the builder pay for the scans as part of the quoting process (more on this in “why”). It is best practice to get a scan right after your quote is accepted on a project (or even before if possible, as it would assist you in assessing the costs and scope of the project). When, Why and What to use Lidar Scanning to create measured drawings When do I get something scanned? Suddenly, all the laborious tasks that make people go mad just got easier. Imagine having this data at your disposal when you are correcting inconsistent steps on a steep incline, drawing accurate piping diagrams 30 feet in the air or mapping the precise location of every truss. This level of detail allows us to take tasks that would be overly tedious and complete them with excellent uniformity. In most cases, we can tell you the size of a brick at the top of a 40-foot chimney or every single rock on the ground (larger than 1cm). How much data is available and how detailed can it be? Now with this software, on-site data reviewing capabilities are possible and it makes us all look cool. Not all of us have a fancy new $7,000 computing option and even if you did, no one would bring something like that on site. We have developed a way to take a file that generally requires a powerful computer and made it run on a turd of a laptop. The second one sounds a little funny, but it’s one of the most significant hurdles our company has had to overcome.
