ReCap and UAVs to Deliver 2D, 2.

5D, and 3D Data

for Your AEC and Infrastructure Projects
Dominique Pouliquen Michael Mizuno Marc Zinck
Product Manager, ReCap Photo Product Manager, ReCap Pro Senior Dev. Manager, ReCap Pro
Senior Manager, Bus. Dev. Reality Solutions

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Agenda
▪ Why Reality Capture?
▪ Why ReCap?
▪ Introducing ReCap Photo
▪ Hands-on Lab
▪ Step 1 – Basic Workflow
▪ Step 2 – Workflow with Ground Control Points
▪ Step 3 – Editing the photo-based mesh
▪ About the Reality Capture API on Forge
▪ Getting Started
▪ Additional ReCap Workflows (if time permits)
▪ 1 – Indoor + Outdoor Scanning
▪ 2 – UAV Photos to Revit
Why Reality Capture?
The Autodesk vision is to help people imagine,
design, and create a better world.
~80% of buildings are more than 20 years old
 Current practice is a painful, manual, & inaccurate
process that results in costly change orders
Get raster blueprints Trace and clean Measure and markup Eyeball installs Draft changes
Reality Capture

Image courtesy of 3D Robotics

Why ReCap?
From Scanned Data To BIM Workflows
Autodesk….Capture & Make Anything
What is ReCap?
• Hardware agnostic platform

• Multimodal Reality Data

• UAV photos & Terrestrial Laser scanners

• Scan to BIM deliverables from

streamlined workflows with
Autodesk portfolio
• Design: as-built 2D and 3D data
• Construction: 2D and 3D QA&QC
What is ReCap?
desktop

scan
Laser scanning
fly
UAV scanning

web mobile
Who is using ReCap?
Factories Plants Buildings Ships

Construction sites Quarries & Mining Infrastructure

Industry Focus

Scan-to-BIM
Buildings Construction/Infrastructure

Who: Architects, Engineers Who: Civil Engineers, Site Surveyors

What: Gateway from 2D to 3D What: Design context and site monitoring
(Laser) Scan to BIM

From Laser scans to AutoCAD, Revit,

Navisworks, BIM 360 Coordination & Maintenance

2D Modeling: AutoCAD

3D Modeling: Revit
ReCap Pro for Mobile
(UAV) Scan to BIM
From UAV photos to InfraWorks, AutoCAD Civil3D, BIM 360, Revit

Analysis & design: Revit, Civil3D,

InfraWorks

Site monitoring: BIM 360

What’s new with ReCap?
Laser Scans UAV Photos
1. ReCap Mobile: iOS platform for Leica BLK 360 1. ReCap Photo (formerly ReMake) for UAV
2. In-field registration workflows
3. In-field collaboration with ReCap web 2. Increased stitching capacity to 1,000 photos
3. Streamlined workflow with Infraworks and AutoCAD
Civil3D

Single Subscription
+ Single Installer
Introducing ReCap Photo
Hardware agnostic platform
Our focus for AEC & Infrastructure

Inspire 1

Phantom 4 Pro
Matrice 200
Solo
Sirius

$1,500 $4,000 $10,000 > $30,000

Drone Flight

Third party apps

(DJI, 3DR, Drone Deploy, Pix4D…)
GCP Collection
ReCap Photo Workflow

3D Point Clouds

2.5D Orthoviews

Photos + 3D meshes
GCPs

3D Meshes Revit FY14

Available Summer 2017

Hands-on Lab
Step 1 – Basic Workflow
Basic workflow

▪ Check the source photo exifs

▪ Look for GPS tags
▪ Open ReCap Photo
▪ “Create 3D”
▪ Select “Aerial”
▪ Select the source photos
▪ Add/remove images if
necessary
 Basic Workflow
Select the output formats Select the output In ReCap Photo dashboard,
Click on ‘Create’ at the that you need. coordinate system that the upload of the photos
bottom of the image you need. starts. You may pause it at
selection page. any time.

Select the pixel size in cm for the resolution of the

ortho.
Default is 1 pixel = 1 cm
Reality Data is ready!
Getting your Reality Data
After you have received an email saying that the
project is complete, you can download the You can also access your project data from your ReCap
project files from A360 directly from ReCap dashboard on the Web.
Photo.
All project files will be downloaded to your
selected folder.
Using Your Reality Data in ReCap Web
Our 3D viewer is now using Autodesk LMV (Large
From your project dashboard, you can view the 3D
Model Viewer) for a much better experience. It is still
model or the 2.5D orthoview, share the project with
using a low polygon-count 3D model though. To get the
team members, publish it to the ReCap gallery or
full res 3D mesh, you will need to download the RCM
download the project files.
and use ReCap Photo to view and edit it.
 Using Your Reality Data in ReCap Web
You can enrich your Linear distances are Annotations can be
project with tags, true 3D distances, enriched with text
Our 2.5D viewer allows to view the annotations, markups leveraging the elevation information, additional
geolocated orthoview. and linear map built with the photos or hyperlinks.
measurements. orthoview.

All these project metadata

You can zoom in / out are available by clicking
using the mouse wheel, here. They become part of
and navigate in the the information that will be
orthoview using the shared with your team
maps. members.
 Using Your Reality Data in ReCap Web
After selecting a point you’d like to The selected source photo is then
focus on in the orthoview, the software downloaded from A360 and displayed. You
Our 2.5D viewer allows to access to the
will propose a selection of the source can zoom in and out in the photo to look
source photos to look for further details or
photos that have the best view angle for the details.
side views..
for this point. Select one of the top
ones.

Click on “Precision Sort”. You can then enrich this source photos
with tags and markups, which will be
added to your project metadata.
Results
85 photos
@ 16 M Pixel

TIFF RCM RCS

55 MB 380 MB 213 MB
Other examples

▪ Area in Singapore RCM 1,450 MB

▪ Mavic Pro, 1,000 photos

▪ TowneStorage example RCM 306 MB

▪ Mavic Pro, 258 photos

TIFF 370 MB

▪ St Louis Construction Site RCM 206 MB

▪ Phantom 4 Pro, 191 photos
RCS 156 MB
Hands-on Lab
Step 2 –Workflow with Ground Control Points
About GCPs and Coordinate Systems

▪ GCP = Ground Control Point = Survey Point

▪ GCPs can be set in “Spherical Coordinate System” like WGS84 as well “Projected
Coordinate System” like UTM and State Planes.
▪ LLA (Longitude, Latitude, Altitude) is listed as LL84 in the list of coordinate systems.
▪ Input for LL84 in GCPs is Long Lat to be consistent with Civil3D and Infraworks. In earlier builds it was Lat
Long.
▪ The user can select different input/output coordinate system.
▪ If no GCPs are used, GPS information embedded with each photo will be used for
geolocation.
▪ Geolocated point cloud (RCS) and orthoview (GeoTIFF) will be geolocated in InfraWorks
and AutoCAD Civil 3D when using GCPs as well as when not using GCPs.
▪ XYZ in local coordinate system is not supported yet.
Workflow with GCPs

▪ Open ReCap Photo

▪ “Create 3D”
▪ Select “Aerial”
▪ Select the source photos
▪ Add/remove images if
necessary
Check the GCP data
Setting GCPs in ReCap Photo

▪ Select ‘Ground Control Points’ on left side:

▪ You then have access to the Survey Points editor.

Setting GCPs in ReCap Photo
▪ In the Survey Point editor, select the coordinate system that was
used for the Ground Control Points:
Setting GCPs in ReCap Photo
▪ Open GCP_LL84.txt

▪ Copy paste the whole set of GCPs in ReCap

Photo
▪ Copy/paste also works with a CSV file or an
Excel sheet with auto-column detection!

▪ Note that some GCPs may be used as

“checkpoints”
▪ Those points will not be used by the stitching
engine, but they will be used to check the
accuracy of the reconstruction in the Quality
Report.
Setting GCPs in ReCap Photo
▪ When selecting a GCP, the “Filter by GPS” will limit
the number of photos to be displayed.

▪ For each photo, select a first photo where the

selected GCP appears.
Setting GCPs in ReCap Photo You can review
your selection
using the left and Once you are
right arrows. finished setting the
Once the GCP GCPs, close the
has been set on Survey Point Editor.
one photo, you
need to set it in 3
more photos
(minimum).

You can use the

mouse wheel to zoom
in the main window or
in the magnifier.
 Workflow with GCPs
Select the output formats Select the output In ReCap Photo dashboard,
Click on ‘Create’ at the that you need. coordinate system that the upload of the photos
bottom of the image you need. starts. You may pause it at
selection page. any time.

Select the pixel size in cm for the resolution of the

ortho.
Default is 1 pixel = 1 cm
Workflow with GCPs - New Features
Other Example to Check the Accuracy
561 photos
40 acres

TIFF RCM RCS

615 MB 2,400 MB 449 MB
11,600 * 22,100 pixels 20 million polygons
UAV to Infraworks & Civil 3D
RECAP Web

RCS
3D Point Clouds

GeoTIFF
2.5D Orthoviews

Source
Photos
+ GCPs
Hands-on Lab
Step 3 – Editing the photo-based mesh
Some important editing tools in ReCap Photo
About the Reality Capture API on Autodesk Forge
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Getting Started
Getting Started

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4. Product Resources Guide

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Additional ReCap Workflows
1 – Indoor + Outdoor Scanning
Laser + photos alignment use case
1: Append laser scans (roof tops…)

Scans only
Laser + photos alignment use case
1: Append laser scans (roof tops…)

Scans +
Photos
Additional ReCap Workflows
2 – UAV Photos to Revit
UAV to Revit
RECAP Web

3D Point Clouds

Source
Photos
+ GCPs