Autodesk Image Modeler

[owen]

Has anyone seen this?

Autodesk Image Modeler

That is pretty damn cool

At the moment it only seems to export DWG + FBX so no real Revit integration? But i guess that will come one day...

[Anonymous]

Very Impressive!
Please note the system requirements : available for MacOSX as well...

[owen]

Wow! Thanks for pointing that out .. being Autodesk i had not even considered a Mac version being a possibility (and so did not bother looking at the req. specs)

[Rob]

do not get too excited we've been there and seen this a long time ago:

http://www.cigraph.it/cigraph/pagetrans.do?action=current_product&prodotti_id=3&lang=en

[Ralph Wessel]

Rob wrote:
do not get too excited we've been there and seen this a long time ago

I might be missing something, but Archi-Facade seems to do only a tiny fraction of what Image Modeller does - in fact, I can barely see a connection between them. Image Modeller looks really stunning from I've seen in those clips.

[owen]

Ralph wrote:

Rob wrote:
do not get too excited we've been there and seen this a long time ago

I might be missing something, but Archi-Facade seems to do only a tiny fraction of what Image Modeller does - in fact, I can barely see a connection between them. Image Modeller looks really stunning from I've seen in those clips.

No .. ArchiFacade seems to simply facilitate perspective correction and conversion of these into images for use in ArchiCAD.

Image Modeller on the other hand lets you assemble a series of images which are taken from a variety of positions into a 3D space which you can then model over/in .. something way beyond ArchiFacade (unless i am really missing something?)

This would be incredibly powerful if it were integrated into ArchiCAD/Revit (still pretty useful as is). I downloaded the demo and had a quick play using some snaps at home ... wasn't quite as smooth as i expected but the main reason was the relationship of the photos used wasn't ideal for how the program works (a 'RTFM first!' lesson). I will retake them and have another go when i have time (and maybe upload some examples)

[Anonymous]

Would be nice to know in what format it is imported to ArchiCad and how the 3D elements are represented in ArchiCad?
Joseph

[Rob]

alright so it is a different cup of tea...
I have come across with a similar type of software that my mate uses for 3D printing.

http://www.3dsom.com/index.html

Anyway, if you were interested there is a lot of similar solutions:
http://www.photomodeler.com/index.html
http://www.interstudio.net/DigicadE.html
http://www.canoma.com/ (mac/win)
http://www.3dphotopro.com/ (a bit messy web)

[owen]

Joseph wrote:
Would be nice to know in what format it is imported to ArchiCad and how the 3D elements are represented in ArchiCad?
Joseph

see attached (straight from the manual) ... no DWG export on the Mac.

Ha!

So the only format useful for AC is OBJ, but AFAIK AC can only Export OBJ, not Import (forget something GS??)

Thats kind of funny (and i wonder if intentional on Autodesks part re: leaving out DWG)

Rob wrote:
alright so it is a different cup of tea...
I have come across with a similar type of software that my mate uses for 3D printing.

http://www.3dsom.com/index.html

Anyway, if you were interested there is a lot of similar solutions:
http://www.photomodeler.com/index.html
http://www.interstudio.net/DigicadE.html
http://www.canoma.com/ (mac/win)
http://www.3dphotopro.com/ (a bit messy web)

Thanks for the links .. curved surface unwrapping in DigiCAD looks useful, and i'm wondering what Adobe plans on doing with Canoma since they aquired it (and stopped selling Canoma).

So Image Modeller is not so original but i think the execution is still pretty good for a first release ... it will be very interesting to see where it goes, particularly with integration into their other CAD apps (being Autodesk i dont imagine interoperability is high on their list of things to improve)

[Anonymous]

So Image Modeller is not so original but i think the execution is still pretty good for a first release ..

Image Modeler was originally developed by Real Viz, a French company.
Autodesk acquired the company in 2008. At that time, I believe they were at version 4.
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?id=11247884&siteID=123112

An other example:
http://www.imodeller.com/en/products/
http://www.shapecapture.com

Classic photogrammetry software
http://www.technet-gmbh.com
http://www.archimedes3d.de
http://www.curamess.de/
http://www.elcovision.com/
http://www.phocad.de
http://www.kubit.de/