Staying Ahead of the Curve

PPS has always tried to improve its products and services by implementing new engineering and design tools. This has been happening since their beginning when PPS implemented 3D CAD software, knowing it would result in the best deliverables for their clients.  To this day they still use AutoCAD Plant 3D, AutoCAD Civil 3D, and several other 3D and rendering software’s. This helps them handle multiple engineering and design disciplines as well as multiple design and presentation requests.

Not satisfied with “good enough” PPS is still looking for ways to better deliver the designs and improve their work flows. Recently they have taken advantage of 3D scanning. This tool helps them with their in-filed data collection. Nearly every project relies heavily on some type of existing condition information. This could include existing plan sets, in-field measurements, photo’s or sketches. The problem is that all these leave room for human error or misrepresentation of the existing conditions.

3D scanning has helped PPS reduce the errors and misrepresentations that come with traditional data collection methods. By using millions of points collected by the scanner, they can create point clouds which can be imported into AutoCAD. This allows their CAD users the ability to design around existing conditions, representing real life relationships between existing and proposed environments. The result is an accurate 3D CAD model used for creating existing conditions and proposed designs. This gives PPS the ability to quickly produce full proposed and as-built drawing sets.