For any of your needs concerning the production of the main architectural representations, CloudCUBE is the software for you!

Nowadays the optimization of the work tools and human resources is basic for guaranteeing quality and margins of profit. For this reason CloudCUBE has been conceived and developed to provide a wide range of possibilities in obtaining the main architectural representations, according to the costs and realization times.

With CloudCUBE the user can choose between two main working modalities: 

1. computing plans, elevations and sections directly on point clouds and then redrawing them by hand (wasting time) in order to obtain a suitable result for the following phases of drawing completion with AutoCAD;

2. constructing the 3D model on point clouds by using CloudCUBE tools to immediately obtain plans, elevations and sections. Moreover, by the 3D model they could be obtained axonometric projections and perspective cross-section view of the model and realize virtual reality or rapid prototyping (scaled plastic models) applications.

Below an example is displayed a plan realized directly on the point cloud and another one realized on the 3D model with CloudCUBE.  It is clearly noticeable that the plan realized starting from the 3D model is suitable for the requirements needed to start the planning phase.

The choice between the two modalities depends on factors such as the number of architectural representations required by the client or the type of data to interpret. In general the more high it is the number of representations required, the more it is convenient to realize the 3D model (method 1.), instead of extracting the two-dimensional information directly from the point cloud (method 2.).

Realizing the 3D model means to remarkably expand the quantity and quality of outputs which can be obtained, increasing at the same time the competitiveness of the company in a more and more competing market.

The new commands 

Starting from the 3D model, all the commands allow to obtain quickly the architectural representations in AutoCAD (and vertical products, such as AutoCAD Civil 3D e AutoCAD Architecture). All the outputs can be completed with further information by using CAD tools.

 The new commands available are the following:

• horizontal sections (plans) computing;

• vertical sections computing;

• elevations computing;

• axonometric projections production;

• perspective cross-section view of 3D model.

Conclusions

The advantages offered by the new survey technologies are changing the work methodologies and only the ones who know how to catch the new challenge will keep competitive in the market. It is a real cultural revolution, comparable with the change of the technical drawing from the drawing table to the CAD. The realization of the 3D model of the scanned object, certainly, needs time and “trained for the third dimension” technicians. Once the transition phase is concluded, the profit compared to the invested time is continuous and impressive: the repetitive activities are reduced to the minimum, the productivity increases and the money is saved.

3D laser scanner is a powerful measurement tool and only a software which allows to model directly in 3D allows to make the best of its potentialities.