The ability to capture measurements from a distance can increase safety and reduce scaffolding expenses. The resulting 3d scans provide a wealth of data from which can be extracted CAD model, panoramic imagery, ortho-images, and other useful aids to your projects.
3D laser scanning for chemical plant applications
Piping equipment is one of the best applications for 3D laser scanning. The ability to accurately map structural elements allows engineers to avoid conflicts that in the past would not have been caught until the construction phase.
The accuracy, time savings, and most important safety; make 3D scanning the most complete way to as built these facilities. There are many distinct advantages of using 3D laser scanning for chemical plant applications. In this blog by Hive Virtual Plant, we talk about 3D laser scanning for chemical plant and industrial plant applications.
How the data from 3D Laser Scanning is used
Just as engineering is more than providing construction drawings, three-dimensional scanning is more than just providing point cloud data. The scanning consultant should not be a one- dimensional solution provider. Although the point cloud data can be considered a commodity to be purchased at the lowest cost, there is a significant value-add from engineering consultants who can integrate the 3D scan with the proposed new work.
The value of 3D laser scanning lies in how the data is used after the scan. If the point cloud data is used only as an image of the proposed work area, the advantages of laser scanning have been lost. Once again, if your laser scanning consultant does not integrate an engineering solution directly into the point cloud, then the technology has not been used to its greatest advantage.
While 3D laser scanning is used in various fields, the technology is widely used in Industrial plants. The ability to accurately map Mechanical Electrical & Plumbing (MEP) and structural components allows engineers to avoid conflicts that in the past would not have been caught until the construction phase. Utilizing 3D scanning in industrial plants is a drastic improvement from the conventional methods. The accuracy, time savings, and most importantly, safety; make 3D scanning the most complete way to as built these facilities.
How 3D Laser scanning and Modelling of plant Saudi Arabia works
You may think 3D scanning is complex but on the contrary, it’s wonderfully simple. Instead of using cameras to take a virtual image, accurate laser scanners are deployed to capture a highly detailed image of an object in space. This relatively advanced technology captures the shapes of physical objects with pinpoint precision and digitally converts them to three dimensional textured models, plans and elevations. These objects can now also be duplicated using 3D printers with data captured by the scanner.
Unlike previous methods that only capture individual points one at a time, a 3D laser scanner captures rich detail of an entire scene. This is due to the instrument recording approximately one million points per second, rotating and throwing out miniscule dots which bounce back to measure any kind of physical space. This in turn creates a reality capture of what’s there in dot (or point cloud) form. The more scans conducted, the more overlap achieved and the higher accuracy and density of the dot points.
This allows us to design straight from dot form, or point cloud, and then we include layers of reality modelling. This might include still photos or videos from a UAV amongst other tools and when this is all layered over the scan it reveals an interactive model which is accurate to a few millimetres.
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