How to make AR Floor Plans?

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Hi Everyone,

I will admit I'm jumping in over my head trying to do something. I work for a design company using Revit/CAD to produce our design documents, as such all of our equipment is 3d modeled. I have seen many example videos where people have been placing QR codes on drawings and having the plans show up in AR over the line drawings on the paper, then move and rotate as the paper is moved around the table. I understand that using Vuforia you may not need to QR code as you can use the line drawing itself to trigger the AR model?

I would like to be try building an app for this so that I can have others in my company be able to see the 3d model over the line drawings, and even have the builders be able to see the model of what they are building if they also download the app. I would like this to be a prof of concept that would eventually end up on something like the Hololens where we could walk the site, but baby steps first, AR floor plans on a phone/tablet.

I am currently watching all the free unity learning content but it seems to be mainly focused on game building.

I can produce all the model content using revit/cad/3ds but its the process of combining it all together in Unity that I am looking for help with

If anyone can help me with this or point me towards some good tutorials it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Ben

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Hey @desanidemo ,

Bringing back up an old post, I had forgot that I had even posted this. I was never able at the time to find a way to accomplish a web based app for viewing AR plans with Unity. Maybe unity has addressed this need with some of their newer launches but I have been out of the game with unity for awhile. To get what I wanted back in 2018 I had to use Playcanvas along with 8th Wall to make make my concept work.

It was a little choppy but I got something working, you can see more or less where I got it to here https://www.linkedin.com/posts/benjamin-dallas-3a277515_ever-want-to-look-around-your-cooking-line-activity-6555242343857958912-4poJ its a link to where I posted it on my Linked in, if you want to see where I got to.

I was able to also do it will full floor plans depending on the export size of the 3D data, but never had a chance to bring it to a device like the Hololens... still trying to get my hands on one

Thanks,

How to make AR Floor Plans?

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