Scan 2 Design

SketchUp for iPad
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iPad 9th gen here, it says no LiDAR in this model but suppose to be supported.

Anyone advice please.

Thanks

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iPad Pro only iirc. Mine’s the 3rd gen 11"

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yes, scan to design needs a lidar. the ipad 9thgen doesn’t have one.

it’s simple to spot, look at the back, if you’ve only got one small camera, no lidar. if you’ve got a big bloc with several cameras, one of them is a lidar.

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Thanks, what iPad do you recommend for LiDAR?

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Thanks google was useless. What is best with LiDAR , only the pro? What would you buy.

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a pro with LIDAR ^^

I don’t know, I’ve been looking at second hand pro ipads with lidar, but they’re still a bit expensive and I don’t really have a use. I could probably find a use, but… yeah.
I’m not much of an ipad connaisseur, couldn’t tell you what upgrade is worth it or not.

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Just has to have lidar. Mine is the 1st gen to have it iirc and so far no issues. I’ve used it a few times with mixed results. It should get better as time goes on. Yes they are expensive.

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Cheapest is 11 inch version. If you buy second hand, the 2nd Gen 11 inch (what I use) works great,

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I sprang for the least expensive 11" M4 version that comes with 16 GB of RAM which is the 1 TB one. A bigger screen would be nice, but less portable and more expensive. I also really like the Apple Pencil Pro over the 1st gen Apple Pencil I was using.

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Can you use an iPhone instead of an iPad? All iPhone Pro’s from version 12 onwards include Lidar.

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No, but you can put it in for a feature request.

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People have been requesting scan support for iPhone Pro’s since the feature was released for iPad but Trimble don’t seem to be bothered with wanting to do it. I don’t see why it should be difficult for them - the iPad and iPhone are pretty much the same OS.

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Because the app that it sits in (SketchUp for Ipad) is built for a significantly more powerful device from a hardware standpoint?

I love the assumption that something hasn’t been added just because a team is lazy and not because there are technological limitations in place

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Is it though?
It’s working on older ipad pros with a lidar, and I ‘m not so certain that the newest iphones pro with lidar are less powerful.

They are smaller and lack the design tools bit still, their computing power (especially the latest ones) could maybe deal with it.

It would make the iphone a good on-site companion. Take photos, scan, and back at the office, use the point clouds, or the mesh scans or other thing you got on location

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I mean, just from a simple benchmark, the newest iphone pro holds its place next to the last 2-3 generations of ipad pro. And they were already compatible with scan to design.

Man these devices are powerful… :open_mouth:

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Honestly I’ve not compared the hardware between Ipad and Iphone recently. I thought the Ipad was on the M chip and the Iphone is on the A chip, which I THOUGHT was less powerful, but that might have changed.

In any case, since Scan to Design is embedded in SU for Ipad, I would assume for it to work you’d have to have a full version of SU for Ipad that runs on an Iphone, which would raise a number of questions and technological issues. It’s not as easy as just “plugging the code into the Iphone” and having a version that works.

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