Reality Capture & Digital Twins
Know exactly what's there before you design around it.
You're planning an upgrade, retrofit, or expansion inside an operating facility, and the drawings on file don't match what's actually built after twenty years of unrecorded changes. Sending an engineer to hand-measure a plant floor is slow, disruptive, and still leaves gaps. You need an accurate, current record of the facility as it exists today, indoors and out, before anyone commits a design to it.
Start your digital twinWhat you get
A mobile SLAM LiDAR capture of interiors, structures, and hard-to-reach areas, processed into a classified point cloud, a 3D model, and an as-built export that drops into your BIM/CAD workflow. Where aerial and indoor capture both apply, the two are combined into one continuous digital twin of the facility.
What it lets you do
Design upgrades against what's actually built, not what the 20-year-old drawing set says is there. Build an asset inventory without shutting down operations to measure it. Give engineers, owners, and contractors a shared, accurate model to coordinate against, cutting the field visits and RFIs that come from working off outdated as-builts.
Why Axis
SLAM and mobile LiDAR workflows built specifically for indoor and hard-to-access capture, backed by the same survey-grade accuracy standard (1–3 cm when the project demands it) as our aerial work. We completed a LiDAR capture for Loera Brokerage's warehouse and are returning for a large indoor SLAM capture of their newest facility: real repeat business from a client who's seen the deliverable.
Frequently asked questions.
What is SLAM capture, and how is it different from a drone flight?
SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) LiDAR is handheld or cart-mounted, built for indoor and GPS-denied environments a drone can't reach: plant floors, structures, tight mechanical spaces. We pair it with aerial LiDAR when a project needs both the interior and the exterior/site context in one model.
Will the digital twin work in our BIM software?
Yes. Deliverables export to standard BIM/CAD/GIS formats (.rcp, .dwg, .las/.laz/.e57 and equivalents), so the model drops into the workflow your engineers already use.
Do you need to shut down operations to capture the facility?
No. Capture happens around your operating schedule. We scope the walkthrough or flight pattern to minimize disruption, including after-hours or phased capture for active facilities.
How detailed is the resulting model? Can we take real measurements off it?
Yes. Point clouds are classified and dimensionally accurate, not a visual reference only. Engineers can pull real measurements directly from the model.
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