Fields for entering your Edge, Geometric, and Snapping Constraints are provided, to allow you to get the results that you expect from these automated routines. Using the Trimble Scan Explorer, you can constrain the extraction of edges and surfaces vertically and horizontally to ensure you can model from them in SketchUp. If you tried to extract the edges directly from this kind of data, they would not produce good planes for efficient modeling in SketchUp. The trick is that scanning technology captures the bumps and curves in real-world surfaces. Maybe too accurate for effective modeling.
If you need more of the detail, use the rectangle or polygon selection tools to extract more “edge clouds” from a portion of the scan One click provides the shell of the structure This tool brings edges into SketchUp as guides - think of these as “edge clouds” that you can use as the basis for accurate modeling. To help you see where you are working in the point cloud, this extension includes an easy-to-use edge extraction tool that provides the important cues you need for modeling building space. Without any context in SketchUp for extracted points and edges, scan data imported straight into SketchUp would be pretty challenging to work with. These entities then appear directly in SketchUp in various ways.
You can rotate and zoom around the scan, and use simple tools to easily specify points, lines, edges and walls. This extension starts by visualizing point clouds as lightweight images created from the original scans. Introducing the Trimble Scan Explorer Extension for SketchUp: a tool for using scan data from Trimble RealWorks as a reference for accurate 3D modeling Using this tool in SketchUp Pro, you can now import scan data from Trimble RealWorks projects as references for building 3D models. With that, I am pleased to announce the Trimble Scan Explorer Extension.
Recently, though, we spotted an opportunity to update an existing Trimble tool and allow scan data to be leveraged in SketchUp without overloading or over complicating your models. Many of you have asked us: “How can scan data be used in SketchUp?” We care a lot about usability, so the notion of importing 500 million points into SketchUp often makes us twitch.