How to Import a Point Cloud into Revit (and What a Revit Model From It Actually Includes)
Importing the cloud is the easy part. Whether it is usable in Revit is decided by registration, coordinates, and how the model scope was defined.
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LOD 200 vs LOD 300 for Scan-to-BIM
LOD is a buying decision. The right level depends on what the Revit model needs to support after delivery.
CT Scan Reverse Engineering
You have a hydraulic manifold with undocumented intersecting galleries, a legacy pump housing with no surviving drawings, or a turbine component with sub-millimeter internal cooling passages. A structured-light system will give you a precise point cloud of the outside and nothing
Reverse Engineering Marine Propellers
Marine propellers sit at the intersection of precision hydrodynamics and brutal real-world service conditions. When one comes out of the water worn, damaged, or simply undocumented, you need geometry you can trust - not a rough digitization that a foundry will reject. Our workflo
As-Built Drawings for Tenant Improvements
You're designing a tenant improvement. The landlord hands you a set of drawings dated 2003. Three prior tenants have come and gone, each pulling their own TI permits - or not. That PDF is not a base plan. It's a liability. Here is how we turn the space as it actually exists into
How Much Does Scan-to-BIM Cost?
There is no honest one-line price for scan-to-BIM. The cost changes when the model scope, LOD, access, schedule, and file requirements change.
Existing Conditions Documentation for Renovation Projects
Renovation work gets harder when existing conditions are treated as a guess. The right documentation package depends on what the design team needs to decide.
Laser Scanning Site Prep Checklist
A scan day goes better when access, visibility, escorts, and deliverables are settled before the field team arrives.
How Much Does 3D Laser Scanning Cost? Day Rates, Turnkey Ranges, and What Drives the Price
Field 3D laser scanning is billed by the day ($3,200-$5,000) or hour ($200-$500), not per square foot. This guide covers scan-only rates, modeling ranges, and turnkey project costs by building type, plus the multipliers that move the price up or down.
Registered vs Unregistered Point Clouds
Having scan files is not the same as having usable scan data. Registration is the step that makes many scan positions work as one dataset.
What Is BIM LOD 300?
LOD 300 is useful only when the scope is clear. It says more about model intent than it says about every object in the building.
Scan-to-BIM Workflow: From Field Scan to Revit Model
Scan-to-BIM is not one button after the site scan. The useful handoff happens through intake, registration, modeling decisions, QA, and review.