We are looking to do existing building interor surveys with a laser device. What we are looking to do is capture column location, wall lenghts, ceiling heights, etc with an electronic measuring device and transfer the data to our Microstation file. The device should be able to switch levels and communicate with a Latop.
I am not looking for a 3D scanning deivice. Just sometthing to do bacic measurements and send the data to a pc that would create the vector line in Microstation.
Is anyone using a this type of device sucessully?
What are you using?
What version of Microstation are you using to capture the vector data.
Hi Roland,
Such Survey Instruments, called total stations , not 3D Scanners are only able to measure horizontal, vertical angle and distances. You need a survey application running on microstation in real time for stationing (like free stationing) the instrument based on your cad coordinate system. Then the equipment can produce coordinates based on your CAD-files.With this coordinates you may draw vectors like lines and line strings.
I remember a Bentley product called "OnSite", which may be able to do this? Maybe you will have a look for "Bentley InRoads Survey", too.
Sadly, Bentley InRoads Survey do not process the insturment data in real time or let say online.You may find information for that in http://communities.bentley.com/products/road___site_design/default.aspx
Regards
Frank
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Thanks Frank,
I was aware of Total Station but, that is not what I am looking to use. I was looking for is more an handheld laser measuring device the would communcate with a laptop to place vector lines on a drawing.
Sort of what you would use to just verify a wall lenght without a measuring tape. I believe these devices exists and can communicate via blue tooth to the computer. Just not sure if anyopne has any experience using a handheld laser measuring device in this way.
Something like this device:
http://www.leica-geosystems.us/en/Leica-DISTO-D330i_83106.htm
Roland
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Not sure how you can really make something like that work. You have a measurement but its not really relative to anything. So you measure a wall and is 6" shorter than your drawing. What end of the wall is it supposed to shorten? What if the wall on one side of a room is 2" longer than the opposite wall where do you make the adjustments? You don't have enough information to resolve any discrepancies.
The Disto (like similar products) is just an electronic tape measure for point to point measuring as demonstrated in the videos on their website. Total stations and point cloud scanners all work relative to points recorded and interrelated by the resulting survey data so output data that is of use to a CAD system.
If a disto type device existed with sufficently accurate GPS location that also worked indoors then the measurements would have a coordinate system to be relative to. Without that all it is storing is a set of point to point measurements relative to wherever the device is placed. Record those places and you have useful data but it will still need manual input once the coordinates are transferred by bluetooth to your laptop, presumably in a CSV file?
Marc