As its name suggests, Autodesk Recap lets you capture and integrate reality data directly into your design process. ReCap and ReCap 360 work with Autodesk design and creation suites, so you can start your design, your renovation, or your retrofit work with accurate 3D scanning data and full photo-quality context.

Autodesk InfraWorks 360 is our preliminary design software that helps improve your project outcomes. You can combine and connect data to create, view, analyze, share, and manage information to make decisions in context. This is a big hit with city planners.

George Hatch is an Autodesk Senior Technical Specialist for Engineering/Natural Resources/Infrastructure, particularly in the area of Transportation. Moments ago I got an email from George. Check out what he did.

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From: George Hatch
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2015 7:21 AM
To: InfraWorks Tech Discussion; Reality Capture
Subject: InfraWorks and ReCap

Good day all,
Just figured I would share some good news on a Friday. Here are some screen shots of Rhode Island LiDAR in ReCap and InfraWorks. Both applications process and visualize this data VERY well in my opinion compared to previous releases.

LiDAR Stats:
48 Tiles
1500m x 1500m tiles
1.0 meter GSD (Ground Sample Distance) or better
Vertical accuracy of 15 centimeters RMSEz or better to support 2' contour

The best part of this story is that it only took my machine 15 minutes to crunch the original ReCap file and another 4 minutes to import and process into InfraWorks! It's a pretty picture that provides value to Autodesk customers.

Enjoying the Journey,
George A. Hatch

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Thanks George.

You may recall that Autodesk Recap started out as Project Photofly on Autdoesk Labs. Your thumbs up votes helped graduiate it to what it is today. Right now, there are 3 active technology previews on Autodesk Labs related to InfraWorks 360.

https://beta.autodesk.com/callout/?callid=301FC0880A59479F9CBC5B64410CA5B7">	https://beta.autodesk.com/callout/?callid=301FC0880A59479F9CBC5B64410CA5B7 - Corridor Optimization for InfraWorks 360 Use equations to find the most efficient roadway alignment.
https://beta.autodesk.com/callout/?callid={ABADE776-9718-43AD-9C88-47A011D71CBA}">	https://beta.autodesk.com/callout/?callid={ABADE776-9718-43AD-9C88-47A011D71CBA} - Project Boulder for InfraWorks 360 Match 2D flood simulations with 3D immersive models.
https://beta.autodesk.com/callout/?callid=0EAA31BF09E2439C9CB727DF771343AA">	https://beta.autodesk.com/callout/?callid=0EAA31BF09E2439C9CB727DF771343AA - Suitability Maps for InfraWorks 360 Leverage mapping data with corridor optimization.

Municipal data overlay is alive in the lab.