# Working with Canvas Scanner Device

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**Category:** Pro\
**Tags:** advice\
**Created:** [October 23, 2018, 12:23am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/working-with-canvas-scanner-device/79695 "2018-10-23T00:23:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![MikeWayzovski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/mikewayzovski/32/98346_2.png) [@MikeWayzovski](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/MikeWayzovski)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2018, 5:02pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/working-with-canvas-scanner-device/79695/8 "2018-10-24T17:02:21Z")

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There is a thread here on the forum somewhere:

> [@Structure, canvas and SketchUp](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/structure-canvas-and-sketchup/33629):
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> Anybody had any experience using the structure sensor and sketchup . [https://canvas.io](https://canvas.io) If this works the way it’s portrayed then it sounds amazing - they do a scan to cad service - delivers back a .skp. This would massively speed up my surveys and existing model builds - the accuracy seems to be there.

> [@sproutsradio](#):
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> I get the idea that they have an algorithm that coverts the point cloud into a Sketchup vector drawing

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