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As the 3D is getting more important in some of the big Oil&Gas compnies, the need to get realistic 3D models is becoming a pain to most of the managers. The main problem comes when the plant to virtually visualize is very old, may be from the 60s or 70s of last century, when of course there was no 3D modeling at all like there is nowadays, in most of the companies. To face this problem some companies offer scanning services that can do very interesting work. Of course, scanning the whole plant and viewing it as a pointcloud, is not enough for most of these big companies as the final idea is far more ambitious than just visualizing it. As I have commented in previous posts, the final idea is always integration with other SWs and DBs. In order to do this, these scanning companies are also evolving to include in their services what is being called “modeler”, to allow the end user to obtain the 3D data as polygons instead of 3D points. These modeling tools are just semiautomatic and require quite some time to model a whole plant, although they are becoming a real need to get valid 3D data that can be really integrated.

I leave a nice post about laser scanning of one of my colleagues: