Hello all, in the interest of saving time/money I’ve been exploring digital scanning options instead manually measuring residential projects. I’m currently getting familiar with Polycam which seems ok so far. I’m curious if anyone uses the Planix R1 scanner for SketchUp specifically. I know it’s compatible as it produces DWG/DXF files. I’ve seen YouTube videos of it capabilities and I’ve seen several virtual walk throughs on real estate listings it provides. It’s pretty expensive so I’m curious if anyone uses it as part of a SketchUp workflow specifically. Would appreciate any feedback or insights
If you have an ipad pro with lidar, sketchup for ipad has a native scanning feature, personally I prefer the Magic plan app cause i can use it on my phone as well and it gives a cleaner mesh that’s easier to edit than the one generated with the native ipad tool and other tools like polycam. Imo Polycam is better for scanning small things for industrial design, it struggles a bit with bigger places like house interiors, I’ve had many times to go again to the apartment or house use my old trusty laser, notebook and pencil to make a survey before using Magic plan. actually I used Magic plan for some years and still have my old perpetual license that gives me the basic features like the free version, I stopped using it cause back then it wasn’t as accurate as it is now and i had to do it everything manually , now it also uses lidar but also uses AI to detect what kind of furniture are on the room or you can tell it what you’re about to measure, that’s just my experience, I haven’t used Planix R1 so I can’t give you any positive or negative opinion.
Thanks for all that info franciscofiallosb. Yeah I’m struggling with trusting the accuracy of Polycam but some of the problem might be operator error too. I’ll keep practicing my scanning technique and I’ll take a look at Magic Plan.