REVIT – A comprehensive overview. Part 2.

We have seen some of the benefits of implementing REVIT into your future and on-going projects,but this technology also offers great advantages to previously finished buildings and structures, commonly known as “As-Built”. Sometimes you need to make adjustments and fine tunings to some of your CAD draftings, improve some of your layouts, or maybe even expand your constructions.

Whatever the reasons might be, the keystone to achieve great results lies in accurately measuring all of the building’s metadata so that you can fully view and understand what procedures and techniques will work best for your particular purpose. This information will also allow you to have full vision of the overall building’s constitution, and foresee any possible events that could compromise the structure.

Finding a company you can rely on to assist with these type of projects can prove to be difficult, because even though REVIT has been around for a while now, there are not a whole lot of companies that have mastered this technology.

One of these companies, however, has absolute knowledge and experience regarding as-built projects and other REVIT-related services – the RevitMart crew based in Washington, DC. Find more about them at http://www.revitmart.com/ – they are the leading REVIT company on the East Coast, but they can assist you and your company no matter where you are in the United States.

How does REVIT gather As-Built Information?

One of the most useful REVIT services, when it comes to working with As-Built project structures, is the seamless integration of laser-gathered data into 3D drafting services. Engineers and other REVIT professionals can then use all this data and process it into BIM models to have a macroscopic view of your entire project.

This feature will help you and your company reduce costs and most importantly, time. Because this information only needs to be gathered once, only one on-site visit is required and so the company you hire can then focus on developing and tuning all of your layouts and REVIT draftings for prompt delivery and your total satisfaction.

The way this works is a team of professionals will visit your site and perform a full laser scanning of the entire facility in order to take all of the data gathered and then deliver a composite REVIT drafting model of the whole structure.

How accurate is this Laser Scanning and how does it work?

The most effective way to perform complex yet high-resolution scannings is by using next-generation LIDAR scanners. A LIDAR scanner can aim its laser beam in an incredibly wide range. By rotating its head horizontally and tilting a mirror vertically, the laser beam can detect and measure the distance to the first physical object it encounters, with immense precision.

Each and every one of these scans produces millions of points per beam, accurately positioned in the X, Y, and Z dimensions of space (3D). Ultimately, all of these points are gathered and integrated into one whole compound 3D model known as a “Point Cloud”. This model can then be navigated through a variety of CAD software applications.

This remarkable feature not only helps the company working on the project, but it gives the client several benefits as well, such as greatly reducing costs related to Requests for Information and change orders due to field conditions.

Not only that, but by using the Point Cloud, engineers and architects in charge of the project can then access this information to make critical decisions in no time when it comes to overall design and structure. By having access to such accurate information, potential errors and omissions are reduced to virtually none. Especially when the project is handled by an elite crew of experienced professionals such as RevitMart http://www.revitmart.com/