CloudCUBE provides the Technicians with various work tools to work easily on the points clouds acquired by Laser scanner. AutoCAD® is the work platform, which is the indisputable CAD standard in the world of drawing and familiar to most Technicians of the field. 

The picture displays the workflow of CloudCUBE. The first phase is importing the points clouds obtained by laser scanner and then arranging them in sub-clouds. These operations are performed by the functions of the MANAGER module, which allows to organize the data acquired in the survey as well as to prepare them to be treated in a profitable performing way in all the representation phases. 

CloudCUBE is structured with modules. Each module provides the user AutoCAD® inner tools which propose two main work methods, according to the detail level which has to be reached. 

2D method

The first method is based on the historic roots on which AutoCAD® was born, i.e. the bi-dimensional drawing. As it is evidenced in the diagram, the DRAW module provides the user with appropriate tools to extract sections directly on the points cloud and AutoCAD® entities. In this way it is possible to easily obtain plans, sections and elevations of the scanned object. 

3D method

The second method follows the evolutional choice of the most famous CAD present in the worldwide market starting from the 2007 AutoCAD® version, i.e. the improvement of the three-dimensional modelling and photorealistic rendering. As it is evidenced in the diagram, by using the MESH, DRAW and SURFACE CloudCUBE modules, it is possible to use three perfectly integrated 3D modelling techniques which allow to obtain the surface three-dimensional model directly on the points clouds.

The three-dimensional models produced can be used to obtain all the desired bi-dimensional information (plans, sections and elevations) as well as a basis for rapid prototyping and photorealistic rendering or, in general, virtual reality applications.