Waterman’s Bay Scanning Project
This project needed to answer several questions to the customer:
- Has the cladding of the house been deformated?
- Where can I build a swimming pool?
- How much ground has to be moved to fill the lower level of the backyard?
- Where can I add more living room and how would it look like?
This family house in Waterman’s Bay was one of the first projects that was done for a private person by using our new 3D Laser Scanner. The outcomes of this job were:
- Classic 2D CAD drawing of the buildings and topographic features
- Deformation maps of the claddings
- Volume calculation for the backyard and the pool
- Calculation of contour lines
- Development of a 3D model for further planning of the house
The premises were scanned from 14 standpoints to capture all important features of the project. In total 700 million points were measured in just four hours on site (including preparation).
Overview over the premises - Result of the scanning process
Starting from this stage the CAD drawing and the contourlines were derived. Many objects were captured above ground level like trees, a trampoline, hedges and a power supply line which would falsify the contourline interpolation. In a first step all these features were removed, which led to the result shown below.
Then the outlines were extracted and imported into AutoCAD for further processing.
To determine the deformation of the cladding the building was scanned two times (30min for each scan) after the first survey. A comparison between the first and last survey led to the results below.
