WGAN-TV Immersaf Media Leica BLK360-#2760-What Is An As-built

[00:04:12] Dan Smigrod: That's awesome. That actually brings us right to our topic: How Architects Leverage Matterport Digital Twins Created with the Leica BLK360 Camera/Scanner. Can you talk about the use cases? You mentioned "as-built".. Perhaps we could start with that. What is an "as-built"...? [00:04:31] Matt S. Crowder: Sure. When an architect starts a project on a building that already exists, it's very helpful for them to know what's already there and if they don't have drawings, they don't have what the "as-built" is which is as-built documentation, be it CAD drawings, paper drawings and so on and so forth. That would be one of the use cases. That's an "as-built" showing what the current conditions of a building is. [00:04:54] Dan Smigrod: So, aren't there already CAD files – or original construction drawings – for a building so that – [00:05:06] Matt S. Crowder: Sometimes there are, sometimes there isn't and even if there are construction drawings, that doesn't mean that it shows current conditions. There may have been renovations, there may have been things in the building that have changed that were never documented, so they don't necessarily trust 20-year-old construction documents on a commercial building. [00:05:25] Dan Smigrod: So the architect has been engaged to re-imagine an existing space and perhaps rather than come out and take a bazillion photos and a ton of measurements, what does the scan data enable the architect to do? [00:05:44] Matt S. Crowder: Sure. Whether you use it in a Pro2 or a Leica BLK360, both of them generate a 3D model called a point cloud. In Matterport you can get that in the MatterPaks; the.XYZ file. There are a couple of other extensions that can be used for point clouds, but that essentially is a 3D model of millions or even hundreds of millions of dots that can be used to trace out an "as-built" in CAD or Revit or Vectorworks or whatever the architect uses. [00:06:17] Dan Smigrod: Is the architect using that to propose a design to the client? To create construction drawings for clients? What happens once the architect re-imagines a space using the XYZ file in a CAD program? [00:06:41] Matt S. Crowder: Sure. If they use the point cloud or I deliver the actual Revit file themselves. Most architects don't ever see the point cloud. But if I deliver the Revit file or the CAD file, then they can take that file itself; manipulate it in Revit or CAD software and then, yes, present that to the client with ideas for a redesign or renovation. [00:07:04] Dan Smigrod: I'm going to ask you more questions about a Revit file, but I'm going to put that aside for the moment and come back to that .RVT file.