Use 3D laser scanners to generate façade plans

Creating façade plans or the entire envelope of a building is seen as a prerequisite for many planning and decision purposes within the scope of different projects.

Creating a façade plan serves the following purposes:

• Refurbishment of buildings
  to retrieve accurate data about the current condition of the façade or a building’s envelope.
• Obtaining façade data
  to create façade plans, to measure surface areas, to assess and quantify damages, and to analyze a façade’s surfaces.
• Measurement of tolerances in the structure
  to permit prefabrication of parts and extensions for buildings.
• Energy evaluation
  to be able to exactly determine a building’s envelope, such as windows, walls, pillars, roofs.
• Orthophotos
  to automatically create dimensionally accurate and rectified images from laser scanning point clouds.
• Documentation of buildings
  to obtain and document building data for Facility Management and the Building Information Modeling (BIM)
• Protection of historic buildings and monuments
  to survey historic buildings and structures, such as trusses, stucco, decorations, etc.

Nowadays, 3D laser scanners are usually used to generate façade plans. Laser scanning technology replaces not only traditional measurement methods, but it incorporates also optical measurement devices (e.g. laser distance measuring device, leveling instrument, tachymeter, theodolite). Besides this advantage, laser scanning comes with many advantages over photogrammetry, combining several devices into one.

Laser scanning has the following advantages:

• Exceptional measurement rates
  State-of-the-art laser scanner equipment is a big time-saver for you and your team.
• Millions of single measurements
  The unique and detailed measurement method makes data analysis faster allowing you to easily evaluate data results.
• Completeness of laser scanning measurements
  Compared to traditional methods, laser scanners provide you with complete and accurate measurements in less time.
• Real representations
  Laser scanning provides a geometrically correct and visually faithful representation of the reality.
• Laser scanning is a cost-effective method
  This non-contact and fast measurement method makes measuring objects easier and renders auxiliary structures superfluous.
• Easy analysis of data
  Collected laser scanning data is automatically analyzed and easily transmitted to your familiar CAD software.

CONCLUSION: When it comes to façade plans, laser scanners provide unrivaled speed. Thanks to the non-contact measurement method, working and operating hours are reduced to a minimum at the place of work. There is certainly no other current method that allows to create such detailed and complete façade plans, which are both graphically superior and extremely accurate. Modern tools allow their users a fast and cost-efficient use of laser scanning data. The results can be processed in existing CAD programs.

Data examples can be found in our download section:

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Try our powerful Point-Cab software right now if you already have a façade plan in the form of a point cloud. Please find more information at:

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