Today’s smartphones and tablets provide surprisingly accurate GPS locations. This makes them valuable tools for turn-by-turn navigation, geocaching, and more recently, catching Pokemon. Today we’ll look at a technique that leverages this technology to do a virtual “walkthrough” of a Civil 3D design.
Just imagine being able to walk around a project site while using a mobile device to visualize your physical location within a proposed infrastructure design. The workflow involves a combination of three tools: Civil 3D, A360 Drive, and the Google Earth mobile app.
If you’re interested, I’ve created a video below that walks through the process.
Note: This recording demonstrates the accuracy I’ve been able to achieve using this technique with a three year old iPad. That being said, there are many things that can affect GPS accuracy so it’s possible that your results may vary.
- Jeff
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