Got a request from a client today that has me thinking. It is a high rise building, on the West face there are CMU walls filling between every floor lab. To this he needs to attach a curtain wall fascia but he has concerns that the CMU walls aren't inline wit the slab edges. He would like me to shoot the CMU's and slab edges (from outside as walls are solid) and confirm if the walls are in plane with slabs. Was thinking that a graphical cut/fill would be the best visual, making the slab edges "existing grades" and the CMU wall the "stockpile" but am unsure of building a .tin or .grd on a vertical face. Office work will be done in Carlson Civil Suite 2017.
Attached is a markup of what he is looking to be located.
I think there is an old thread on this I think the easiest solution was to swap the Z cord with the X cord
I did this on a rock fall mitigation job. Equate left/right with east/west, to and fro with height and vertical with northing. The easy way is import a p,n,e,z,d as a p,z,e,n,d.
On the field end I have used and like Leica's "Reference Plane" software routine. You can set up the FRT so that it gives an in and out to the plane in a report on export. It allows for defining the plane with either calculated or measured points, and has a scan the plane feature for defining the grid of shots.
Looks like a job for a scanner and deformation analyses software
Create vertical meshes all of the time using 3DReshaper.
Luke
How are you planning on doing this from the outside on the 20th floor? That seems like the real challenge.
