New Tools in the Tool Chest

Trimble EdgeWise Feature Extraction from a Point Cloud:
Cloud with Pipe and Walls / Planes created:

 Pipes and Walls (as Surfaces):

Pipes alone:

Matterport for Reality Capture

If you're interested in the Reality Capture tools out there and want to integrate the workflows into your practice, you might take a look at the Matterport 3D Camera. It is an amazingly simple tool and process for capture of existing conditions and their online platform with hosting and Mattertags is very powerful. Give it a look and let me know what you think!
3D Scanning for AEC

ReCap - Getting Started and Best Practices Guide

If you're interested in getting into Reality Capture or just want to read up on it, check this Guide out from the folks at Autodesk ReCap. There's a dataset and document to get you all learned up!
ReCap Best Practices Guide

BLK 360 & ReCap 360 Pro

This is big time! With this scale of democratization of such powerful technology, Autodesk and Leica have changed the landscape of Reality Capture. Where are you applying Reality Capture currently and / or do you have it in your projections for this year? If so tell us about it. Let us know if you have any questions.
Leica BLK 360 and Autodesk ReCap 360 Pro

ReCap 3.1 has been released!

Great new additions to the ReCap workflows. ReCap 3.1 is now out!
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/reality-computing/four-more-reasons-to-love-recap/ba-p/6595808

Autodesk and Leica transforming Construction Industry...are you ready?

Autodesk and Leica partnership is going to accelerate the world of Reality Capture as well as streamline workflows throughout BIM. Good news for Autodesk users incorporating Reality Capture and BIM. Are you utilizing Laser Scanning in your current workflows? If not, what is the barrier to getting into this technology? Are you getting the most out of your BIM projects, or could you be doing more with the information you're already putting in?
http://inthefold.autodesk.com/in_the_fold/2015/06/autodesk-and-leica-transforming-the-building-construction-industry-together.html?linkId=14865801

Autodesk BIM 360 Layout App (BIM 360 Glue)
http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/bim-360-glue/getting-started/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/ENU/BIM-360/files/GUID-C5C405EF-2A5B-4CD4-8D83-E6E1D529B3DC-htm.html

Let us know your thoughts on this and other tech...and Revit 2016? Especially the Fabrication Parts. Pleased with this, unhappy about it...meh...what do you think?