Autodesk ReCap 360 at the Commercial UAV Expo

Yesterday afternoon at the Commercial UAV Expo in Las Vegas over 30 vendors provided Product Previews and updates on their latest developments and launches.

One particular announcement caught our attention: Autodesk ReCap 360

The San Rafael, CA, based company has been developing design software for over three decades with its flagship product AutoCAD; in recent years Autodesk has been making huge inroads in the areas of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Software as a Service (SaaS).

A good example of SaaS is their product for the UAV and mapping/surveying industries ReCap 360 (http://www.autodesk.com/products/recap-360/overview) in which the user can submit unprocessed images of real-world objects and expect, within a short period of time, a final product in the form of a point cloud that can be used for immediate visualization or conceptual modeling.

ReCap 360 offers online tools for cleaning and organizing point cloud data, combining data from multiple sources and automatically cleaning all moving objects from the point cloud.

With this solution, UAV final users do not have to own any processing software and can pay for each job or contract the service through the Autodesk Subscription model.

It’s good to see software giants such as Autodesk joining our industry, bringing with them decades of experience and introducing innovative approaches to our daily challenges.

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Juan Plaza

Juan received a degree in Geodesy and a master in digital photogrammetry from Universidad Central de Venezuela and a MBA in international Finance from Florida International University. He has over 750 hours of experience in photogrammetry navigation and camera operation in aircraft as varied as WWII B-25, Cessna 310, Lear Jet 25C and Piper Aztec. Juan holds a Commercial, Multi-engine Pilot certificate. Juan has been selling mapping UAV’s in Latin America for four years and is a frequent guest speaker in events where the safety of flying UAV’s and the fact that unmanned and manned aircraft inevitably will share the same airspace, is a relevant topic. He is the CEO of Plaza Aerospace Corp., a services’ firm specializing in UAV and general aviation issues.