As we bounced off our idea of creating the BLK360 with the Autodesk team, we felt that the time is right to start the joint development of the reality capture experience.”Īnd what is Hexagon’s vision for the BLK360? Boeckem said, “We are committed to the idea of ‘democratizing technology,’ and the BLK360 is a major contribution to this path. We began to look at how we could bring something to the market for these particular professionals. Hexagon’s chief technology officer, Burkhard Boeckem (Photo by Hexagon)īoeckem said, “Leica Geosystems is well known for its laser scanning capabilities in the surveying, plant, and public safety sectors, but we recognized a gap in the market when it came to the AEC market. Was there a lightbulb moment that brought the two teams together? Morris explained, “Leica Geosystems has a wide range of, from the DISTO all the way up to high-end scanners, like those surveyors would use, but not a lot in between. Autodesk is not a hardware company, so we’ve enjoyed working with Leica Geosystems on this.”
It is almost like a passion to work with this. Our team had dreamed about this for a very long time. Twelve years ago, a few of us assembled what was essentially a crude version of what this is. Morris said, “My background at Carnegie Mellon University included working with the earliest scanning systems. As Morris noted, “We feel strongly that getting immediate feedback, being able to see the results on the spot in the app, to be able to check the quality-it puts you in the loop, in real time.”Ī powerful little scanner would be the perfect fit for an intuitive and semi-automated workflow, one that Morris and his colleagues (and counterparts in Leica Geosystems) had been thinking about in parallel for many years. A lot of times it involved bringing in the specialist crew and the expensive gear.”īut there was another goal in this collaborative development, one that was the highlight of our test drive during the visit. “We had to think about how to make the process straightforward, with a simplified pipeline into tools that can use the data. “Non-traditional potential users and new entrants into the market: we wanted their first experience to be as delightful and as positive as possible,” Morris said.
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