Reality Solutions Public Roadmap - March 2020
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We are pleased to provide an update to our Public Roadmap for ReCap products and services.
This roadmap may make statements regarding future events and development efforts for our products and services. These statements reflect our current expectations based on what we know today. Our plans are not intended to be a promise or guarantee of future delivery of products, services or features and purchasing decisions should not be made based upon these statements. We do not assume any responsibility to update this roadmap to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the publish date of this roadmap.
We’ve grouped our plans by product:
- ReCap Pro
- ReCap Photo
- ReCap Web
- ReCap SDK
We use colors to keep track of the roadmap details.
RECAP PRO
The focus for ReCap Pro is to 1) add performance improvements and stability fixes and 2) add high impact feature and feature enhancements that are most frequently requested. In addition to improving scan import and large scan project manipulation (with many regions), we are also fixing defects in RealView PNG export as well as in the snap to walls feature in AutoCAD. For online collaboration workflows, we will be adding support for BIM360 and focus on reducing file sizes to optimize cloud storage. A360 Drive is being retired within the next 8 to 10 months, so migrating to Autodesk Drive (for users without a BIM360 subscription) will also be completed in that time frame.
RECAP PHOTO
OrthoTIF resolution is limited by 256 mega-pixels currently. Also, in some cases, the calibration of aerial scenes resulted in suboptimal accuracy required for survey workflows. The immediate priority is to make these couple of pending 3D reconstruction quality and orthoTIF resolution improvements to achieve survey grade accuracy. The focus after achieving survey grade accuracy, is speed and scale. Removing the 1,000 photo limitation while preserving “overnight” processing time frame is something we will be working towards.
RECAP WEB
Integrating better with other Autodesk products and ecosystem is the focus here. Structured scans published and 3D photo reconstructed meshes are currently only viewable on ReCap Web (https://recap.autodesk.com) and don’t play well with BIM360, Autodesk Drive nor Autodesk Viewer embedded in 3rd party apps. This is going to be prioritized. First step is adding support for RealView visualization in Autodesk Viewer, which is the viewer in Autodesk Drive, BIM360 and also 3rd party forge app. Next is moving the ‘scan publish’ and ‘3D photo reconstruction’ features from A360 Drive to Autodesk Drive and BIM360 (users preference). Achieving these will bring us one step closer to visualizing and using reality data with BIM data in BIM360 and Autodesk Drive.
RECAP SDK
We are happy to announce that ReCap SDK will be accessible via ObjectARX APIs in AutoCAD 2021. What this means is that AutoCAD plugins will now have access to the same APIs that we released previous in ReCap SDK. Importing & exporting scan projects, spatially filtering and iterating through points to run custom classification algorithms, etc. are workflows that are now possible in 3rd party AutoCAD plugins. And more APIs to enable more powerful workflows will be added in the future. We also are listening to you! We are adding the most requested APIs and continuing to focus on performance to make your apps run better and faster!
HOW DO I GET INVOLVED?
If you don’t see something listed here, it doesn’t mean that it isn’t on our radar. If you have specific suggestions for ways we can make the product better, we encourage you to submit them to ReCap Ideas.
We will continue to post updates periodically, and your feedback helps! Let us know what you think.
Thanks!
The Reality Solutions Team