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.
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