In my main job, I have a need to place large 3D point arrays in half built spaces, and I need to show them to clients.
in my home life, I’m working on this by building a model of my fence replacement, but then also working on how to get this into AR. its a good project because its generally planar, and has givens (old fence posts I’m reusing) and new constructions, such as 2x4s and fence pickets. All of the geometry are boxes or cylinders.
just a short list of features that could make this really sing.
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AR orientation points. Even if a location is not finish built, AR survey points which then scale the model into the space would be amazing. designate points in the rhino file to be AR markers, and the model scales into the space.
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point cloud scanning. Being able to scan a site, including some sort of QR or other item to bring into rhino would be amazing. For instance, my fence was built in the 1950s the distances between posts are non uniform, and actually they are not planar for a single flat surface across all 7 of them. Also, since the ground is uneven, I don’t really know where the bottom of all these posts are, so it would be amazing to bring a point cloud or mesh from the real world into the rhino file.
So far, I’ve really liked the app. I scanned my bathroom very successfully, and even without modeling the toilet or sink, it put a box there and named it “toilet” so it clearly recognizes it without putting a full mesh together.
Thanks for all your hard work on this. To me, the goal of this app would be first and foremost to bridge the gap between the digital and the physical world. Anything that increases fidelity of either side when bringing it into the opposite side is great.