Technology demonstrations

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  AI Structural Failure Inspection

  AI Structural Failure Inspection is a technology demonstration that leverages an AI/ML-based image recognition method to showcase how Construction/Facility management companies and inspection agencies can automate the detection of structural failures by identifying potentially dangerous cracks. The proposed automation will significantly improve the safety inspection efficiency and accuracy, and reduce the accident risks caused by structural damage.
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  AI Warehouse Robot Simulator

  AI Warehouse Robot Simulator is a technology demonstration of simulating, suggesting, and training robots suitable for warehouse technical constraints based on the warehouse model to achieve greater efficiency, accuracy, and flexibility in logistics, supply chain operations, and warehouse management while also enhancing workforce safety and reducing the risk of workplace injuries and other health emergencies.
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  AI Construction Takeoff

  With increasing materials expenses in the construction industry, mastering takeoff calculations is a crucial step for accurately forecasting project expenses and enhancing bidding strategies. Aiming to address key business challenges in the industry, AMC Bridge has created AI Construction Takeoff, a new proof-of-concept tool that aims to show what the future of construction takeoff can be. AI Construction Takeoff is a technology demonstration of automating the detection of a predefined set of symbols in construction drawings and the calculation of room square footage to streamline the construction takeoff process.
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  Construction Quality and Progress Checker

  Construction Quality and Progress Checker is an ML-based technology demonstration of ensuring floor plan accuracy that helps optimize spatial arrangements, prevent costly rework and delays, and help make informed decisions in the construction, architecture, real estate, and facility management industries.
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  LiDAR Scan-to-BIM Floor Planner

  LiDAR Scan-to-BIM Floor Planner is a technology demonstration that simplifies the process of floor plan generation for facility management based on existing real estate, showcasing automated and rapid floor planning and floor plan export flexibility and enabling cost-saving estimation of materials required for construction or renovation, offline work capability, and improved property marketing. The technology demonstration paves the way to enhance the design, sales processes, and construction in the real estate industry.
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  AsBuilt Plus

  AsBuilt Plus is a technology demonstration of comparing CAD model prototypes with point clouds of the manufactured parts to establish and analyze deviations between the designed and produced parts. The technology demonstration is developed for the Autodesk Inventor® CAD software to interact with the Unreal Engine® real-time 3D creation tool.
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  AI for Facility Management

  AI for Facility Management is an IOS®-based technology demonstration of using machine learning to extract elements of a building façade from a plain photo image and automate the creation of a bill of materials (BOM). With AI for Facility Management, users can: Take or upload images of façade openings to their iPad® mobile digital devices for recognition Use the Recognize functionality to label each image Get an editable list of manufacturing details for each opening (door or window) Edit image notes Select which recognized images to include in the BOM Send the resulting BOM to their email as an email draft Review the BOM in the email draft Email the BOM to other recipients
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  Web View/Convert for Reality Capture

  Web View/Convert for Reality Capture is a technology demonstration of viewing and converting point cloud files in a web browser. It can accept the Autodesk® RCP/RCS and convert them to the formats supported by the HOOPS® Exchange technology.
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  Machine Learning Formula Scanner

  Machine Learning Formula Scanner is a technology demonstration of optical character recognition and reconstruction of mathematical formulas and expressions from images. It converts formula images to editable expressions and saves the converted formulas to a Microsoft Word document.
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  Web Point Cloud Viewer

  Web Point Cloud Viewer is a proof of concept (POC) that enables users to upload, store, and preview point cloud data. Using the Autodesk® Forge™ platform, Web Point Cloud Viewer is integrated with Autodesk A360 cloud service. Point cloud data, as the output format of 3D scanning processes, is now widely used in AEC, manufacturing, and engineering. Nevertheless, a limited number of applications allow users to process point cloud data online, as well as support collaboration options.
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  AsBuilt

  AsBuilt™ is a technology preview of a plugin for SOLIDWORKS®, enabling users to load, manipulate and compare point cloud with mesh or BRep models. 3D scanning becomes a commonly used way for comparison of the manufactured part and initial CAD model. To prototype this workflow for a popular 3D CAD software, AMC Bridge conducted a research of various comparison algorithms, and as a result created AsBuilt, a technology demonstration add-in for SOLIDWORKS. It adds an option to load point cloud model to SOLIDWORKS session and visualize it with OpenGL, so that it could be aligned to a CAD model for detecting differences. 
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  Point Cloud Generator

  Point Cloud Generator is a standalone lightweight application that generates point clouds of different formats. Strict following the current point cloud formats specifications makes the generated files compatible with the different types of point cloud viewers. Optimization of the process enables users to generate large point data sets while consuming few hardware resources. Main capabilities:
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  Point Cloud Viewer

  Point Cloud Viewer is a lightweight application for viewing point clouds. Point Cloud Viewer optimizes use of hardware resources by cleaning up data received from 3D Scanner. The ultimate goal of the application is to be able to display arbitrary point cloud while maintaining constant memory footprint and acceptable frame rate.
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  VR-Architecture

  VR-Architecture™ is a technology demonstration of creating a 3D model of a single floor or a whole building on an Android™ device using floor plan images or hand-drawn sketches. It demonstrates an implementation of an algorithm that accepts image files of floor plans either saved to storage or taken with an Android device camera from a hand-drawn sketch or a printed picture and converts them into a 3D model of a specific floor or a high-rise building. The user can open the resulting DWG file in ViewER or ViewER-VR™ to see the 3D representation of a corresponding model.
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  Construction Safety—Hard-hat Detector

  Construction Safety—Hard-hat Detector is a web-based technology demonstration of identifying people without hard hats on construction sites from a video file. Using the TensorFlow™ open-source software library with embedded machine learning and image recognition algorithms, the technology demonstration performs video analysis and extracts the frames where non-hard hat wearers are detected.