Recap usage witn inventor users

[Anonymous]

Is anyone using Recap to overlay drone/photograps material on Inventor site views or groundfloors? We usually have to implant our machinery/tanks on the clients plant. We use Google maps (satelite) to have a picture on how the site is built up and decal that on the  a part that serves as "the ground". Maybe Recap can repalce this in e better way?

[admaiora]

To use Recap you will need a point cloud.

With AUtoCAD you can insert a satellite map, for a best design.

[dgorsman]

With the online ReCap tools, a series of drone or ground-based photos can be changed to a mesh with the image draped as a texture.  However, this wouldn't be useful inside Inventor or most other design tools.  Instead, both the design models and the textured mesh (or a point cloud from a LiDAR scanner) would be brought together inside Navisworks or similar review software so everything can be viewed in the same context.

ReCap also has the ability to reference Navisworks NWD files along with point clouds in a kind of pseudo-augmented reality system.  I've used it with ground-based LiDAR scans, not sure if that would work with reconstructed drone imagery.