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REVIEW:: ClearEdge3D EdgeWise™ – High Definition BIM/CAD Models Automatically From Point Clouds
August 4th, 2009 | Author: Travis Reinke
Company: ClearEdge3D
Software: EdgeWise™
Website: www.clearedge3d.com
Quick Pitch: Automatically extract vector planar surfaces from point cloud data.
Overview:
Having used just about every piece of software on the market related to processing and extracting vector information from point cloud data, I am always looking for the next best thing that will make my life and my team’s life easier. We have seen the hardware side of laser scanning come a long way in a very short period of time; however, the software side has not improved at the same blistering pace.
When the availability of ClearEdge3D’s EdgeWise™ software was announced here back in June and webinars were hosted to demonstrate the abilities of the software, I was anxious to get my hands on a copy of it to test it out for myself. While a little reluctant to offer demo licenses in the beginning, ClearEdge3D quickly began to realize that skeptics like myself were not willing to spend $5,000.00 on a piece of software that we have not had a chance to try out for ourselves, especially in this economy. They quickly began to recognize the needs of the market and responded accordingly by providing time-based pre-release beta trials to highly interested parties.
