[SML] Favorite Disto Tool

[Bill Conner]

Wenger and StageRight use them for measuring for pit fillers. Some
companies do whole buildings - 3D - all ready for Revit so sure AutoCAD is
possible. Recent PAC client had their whole facility done.

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020, 4:45 PM Richard Niederberg via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> There are 'Laser Transit' -looking-devices that can scan a whole room, but
> I don't have access to one.[nor could I most likely afford one or know if
> they can ;talk' to an AutoCAD or competing application running on Windows
> 10 or the Apple equivalent.
> /s/ Richard
>
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 2:12 PM Dougherty, Jim via Stagecraft <
> stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
>
>> Joe Dunfee wrote:
>>
>>     On a related note, are there any distance meters out there, that have
>> an application to integrate it into a drawing program.  I have long hoped
>> there would some day be a simple device, that would just scan a room, and
>> quickly produce a usable 2D drawing. But, that seems to be one of those
>> elusive things that the marketing folks love to talk about.
>>
>> I saw a device like that on a forensic anthropology documentary called
>> "Bones" and I think the gummint has something like that they let their CSI
>> labs use, but I haven't seen anything that reliable and integrated in real
>> life.  I'd ask for 2D as well as 3D - might as well ask for the moon.
>>
>> - Jim Dougherty
>> Middlebury College Theatre Dept.
>>
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