ArchiCAD 3D Scan Anything Using iPad LiDAR

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Today we review how you can take a 3D lidar scan from an M1 iPad pro and convert it into a workable site mesh on archicad.

Who would have thought that technology would have advanced so much that we could literally take our iphone/ipad and scan the entire world! The m1 ipad pro makes this video possible.

By using the app SCANIVERSE we can walk on a site, scan the entire area and create a 3D model of that site.

Then by exporting an STL file directly from scaniverse (this is a premium feature which you will have to upgrade too, but don’t worry they have a 7 day free trail which allows you to access all of these premium features without paying, just make sure you cancel your subscription rather quickly after youre done) we have the ability to import the file directly into archicad and create an site mesh that will form the basis of any architectural design.

Note: archicad does struggle with the STL files as there are millions of polygons in this file, thus it may case some systems to lag or crash. Even on a high end, custom built pc, this process was a challenge.

00:00 Intro
00:23 Scanning
03:00 Importing
04:05 Orientating
06:42 Video Sponsor
09:45 Mesh Building
14:44 Outro

[alexanderdukov]

Great video, showcasing the strengths of the iPad for professional uses. Well done!

[josephcorr]

Thank You so much, I was thinking about buying an Ipad so I can use this feature among the whole other ones for architecture. Very useful

[PhentomV]

is there a possibility of rotating an XYZ point cloud? I imported XYZ point cloud to ArchiCAD and had the same issue with orientation.

[philippdworschak]

Would be great if you could export a e57 file from the iPad. This is the normal way to import pointclouds to AC

[realpulsecoin]

Cool David. Is there simular tools to scan a floorplan or exterior geometry of a house? Thx, greetings Norway

[chejz]

what is the file format of the terrain you have imported? did you make it as a point cloud or something else?

[AidanNewsome]

Great vid, David. I'm working on a project in the next few days where I'm doing a photogrammetry scan of the site (poor man's LiDAR) and will bring it into Archicad. I will experiment with cleaning and reducing the polygon count of the mesh before bringing it in, however, to see if that makes the workflow you've created here even smoother.

[mohammedarifkhan]

Sir what are the recommendation for rendering like GPU, RAM etc for a good quality render.

[AndyGraumann]

This looks painful. I bet editing the mesh in Rhino and bringing it into ArchiCAD afterwards would be 10x faster.