I just got a new iPad Pro in hopes that I could use lidar scanning to capture interiors of rooms so that I wouldn’t have to model them before I do remodeling suggestions for customers. I’ve watched videos and they seem to be able to get nice clean scans of rooms but when I do it, I would not trust it for pulling dimensions, etc.. I’m just wondering if anybody else is using it and having success and has tips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jdrfBS2FaE check out Matt’s Video where he compares measuring with tape to Lidar.
That’s a good video. I’ve seen it a couple times. I’m just hoping that somebody here is using this like I plan to for remodeling projects and is able to get precise results as well as scans that can be used to jumpstart the design process.
Can you provide an example. Where your scan is significantly off of your tape measure? It would help us to better understand what ‘margin of error’ you’re experiencing and whether or not that should fall into the ‘acceptable’ range.
Ok, so finally got around to testing my first scan I ever did, against my handy, old school, tape measure. Manual measure of a column says 8 1/4".
Apples ‘Room Plan’ scan got close with 7 3/8", but ‘floated’ the column from the wall.
The Canvas ‘mesh’ scan got closer with 8 1/8" but is all crooked and wonky in proportion/orientation.
So moral is, use it as a reference only and still do your manual measurements. Well, from my experience anyway. Perhaps with some practice I could get a better result but still, from this, I wouldn’t trust it completely.
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I think for now you still need an expensive laser scanner to create accurate point clouds, but maybe that will change in the future. In the meantime you can hire a scanner if you need something really accurate although you’ll need SketchUp Pro running on Windows to work on it.
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