With the Matterport Pro 3D Camera, Bergman was able to capture a medium-density single registered point cloud (200 MB) of the MEP room in under an hour. THE SOLUTION Matterport Scanning 60% Faster than Hand Measuring, Point Clouds Speed Revit Modeling by 40% So he began searching for new tools which would make modeling the MEP room more efficient, without adding additional time or cost to the budget. Finally, acquiring a laser scanner would add a significant unnecessary, expense to his budget.

Laser scanning would also take longer than manual measurements in addition to the time required to register the point clouds and still require hand modeling. with a Leica system) in such a complicated and tight space would require a large number of scan positions. would take 4-5 hours for a contractor to accomplish, and 4-5 days for an engineer to model in Revit, as well as potential additional follow on site-visits.īergman also knew traditional laser scanning (e.g. Hand measuring the boiler room - from wall to pipe, from pipe to pipe, floor to ceiling, floor to pipe, etc.

One project he recently completed involved a complicated MEP room of a high-rise apartment building in which the domestic water heater needed to be retrofit. THE CHALLENGE Optimize BIM Modeling in Revit for Complex Construction Projects, Reduce Time Spent on Measurements and As-BuiltsĪryn Bergman, lead engineer and founder of TL Circle, is frequently confronted with complex engineering projects requiring days of laborious, time-consuming BIM modeling in Revit, usually from hand-drawn measurements, notes and photographs.

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