From the course: Learning FARO As-Built for AutoCAD

As-Built for AutoCAD overview - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: Learning FARO As-Built for AutoCAD

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As-Built for AutoCAD overview

- [Instructor] As-Built is a plug-in that sits right on top of AutoCAD and gives us the ability to model at a point cloud. These additional tools help us make modifications to the points, such as, clipping, sectioning, analysis, fitting, and tracing. Now, let's take a look at the available features. Just navigate to our exercise files. So, we're going to start by opening, move over to our desktop, Exercise Files, and Chapter 01_01. So, let's say we're working inside our native AutoCAD environments that we've got some additional menu tabs that have been included. So, when we look across the top, you'll see that we have As-Built Modeler, which contains all of the, I call these generic functions. So, things like clipping the point cloud, sectioning, navigating, measuring. We have As-Built Plant, which contain, obviously, the plant specific functions, such as walk-the-run for piping, tie-point fitting and structural steel fitting. We have As-Built Building plans, and this is a quick tool that allows you to generate floor plans, so take room measurements, locate doors and windows, and create 2D floor plans from the point cloud. We'll also touch on a few of the features inside the As-Built Analysis tab, and you'll also notice there's a few additional tabs that we're not going to cover. So, we're not going to cover As-Built Total Station Design, As-Built Total Station Control, As-Built Photo or the feature data. These are a little bit more advanced topics that require specialized equipment, and so, we're not going to cover this in the basics for now. Now, that you've seen where all the commands are, it's time to go start modeling.

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