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LFM Software – Overview

LFM Software – Key Features

Realise the true value of your laser scan data.

Outside the EPC environment, Owner Operators are now also recognising the benefits of 3D laser scanning. Laser scanning allows for compliance with Health and Safety regulations; remote data capture is possible and less working at height is required. Rapid data collection has beneficial implications for the amount of time and the number of people exposed to potential hazards on site.

Off site, Owner Operators continue to benefit from 3D laser scanning as the accurate, high resolution, high quality data forms an integral part of their asset management strategy and downstream work processes. Laser scanning data allows for the management of building data throughout its lifecycle. It aids communication and collaboration between architects, engineers, builders and owners.

For brownfield projects, the use of laser scanning mitigates project risks and reduces costs by providing the designer with a detailed, accurate ‘as-built’ knowledge of the site.

By utilising this powerful technology, the user is able to spend less time on site capturing as-built information, dramatically reducing project timescales and costs. Project timescales can also be reduced during the design and construction phases by up to 80% and 20% respectively. Overall schedule compressions of 10% have been reported.

The BubbleView™ provides a 3D, 360° rotation of a high resolution intensity image. It is so powerful that the user has the impression of being on site.

An unlimited number of registered scans can be stored in a single database without compromise, using InfiniteCore™ technology. Acccess speed and quality of laser scan data are unaffected.

LFM is hardware neutral: this has cost-saving implications for LFM customers since only one software solution is required even when there are multiple hardware systems.

LFM is CAD neutral: users can interface seamlessly with their preferred CAD package and ‘clash check’ a proposed design against existing conditions.

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LFM Software – Business Benefits

Open system withoutcompatibility restrictionsLFM aims to be neutral at both ends: neutral with respect to capture devices, and neutral with respect to CAD and modelling technologies.

Minimise the design risksBy providing the designer with a detailed, as-built knowledge of the plant, 3D laser scanning mitigates project risks and reduces design rework, thereby also reducing costs. Get it right first time, every time.

Relevant throughout the entireplant lifecycleLFM Software provides a complete solution from registration of laser scan data to as-built modelling. It is considered by many as aturn-key solution.

Reduces the amount of timespent on siteThe data captured by a 3D laser scanner can be brought to the user’s or designer’s desktop, and reviewed at any time. By utilising this powerful technology, the user is able to spend less time on site capturing as-built information, dramatically reducing project timescales and costs.

Project collaborationThe LFM suite provides users with comprehensive and easy-to-use tools, to help project collaboration even when multiple users are in different partsof the world.

‘When correct work flows are followed, an 80% reduction in the cost of capturing as-built data can be achieved with laser scanning compared to traditional means’

LFM Software – Product Portfolio

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LFM Register™

LFM Register allows users to take raw data from individual 3D laser scanning positions and bring them together into a fully coordinated framework faster and more efficiently than any other package. LFM Register ensures accurate registration and, therefore, accurate data; it moves the registration process off the critical project path so that clients can quickly receive the full benefit from laser scan data. Various features lead to higher levels of accuracy that, until now, have been associated with traditional survey instruments. Moreover, users are provided with tools that will make the process of searching for targets redundant, providing additional opportunities to reduce project timescales and costs.

For instance, trials have shown that as much as 50% less control work may be needed when using the bundle adjustment feature. Data registered in LFM can be used with server packages from other laser scanning software vendors.

Automatic registration process. Traffic light metrics : immediately display the quality of registration.

Intercloud registration : register scans accurately without the use of targets.

Target prediction : locate one or two targets in the scan data, and LFM Register automatically locates and fits the remaining ones.

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LFM Server™

LFM Server allows users to access, and work with, preregistered 3D laser scan data from any scanner vendor, clash detect as-built data against a proposed design, and interface with CAD packages from AVEVA, Autodesk, Bentley, Intergraph orVR Context.

With LFM Server, not only can users create and manage huge point cloud databases from a large range of laser scanners, they can also link seamlessly to almost all of the major CAD packages, using just one piece of software. Therefore, staff require training in only one laser scanning software package, even where multiple CAD deliverables are required.

LFM customers are also able to benefit from InfiniteCore technology. This technology is unique, as it allows an unlimited number of registered laser scans to be stored in a single database without compromise. Access speed is unaffected and individual laser scans remain unaltered and intact. Every measured coordinate is stored ready for rapid retrieval by the user.

Import laser scan data from any scanner – export to any CAD package.

Load unlimited number of scans without compromise.

Clash detect proposed CAD design against as-built environment.

Navigate inside the BubbleView™ with the impression of being on-site, and realise the true value of your laser scan data.

Key Features

Key Features

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Collaboration: extensive mark-up and measurement facilities.

Master-slave mode: live project reviews remotely, with colleagues or clients.

Review the full database in the intuitive BubbleView.

Stand-alone mode: operate without the Internet in a file-based local orIntranet mode.

LFM Modeller™

LFM Modeller allows users to produce 3D CAD models from as-built laser scan data with only a few clicks, and export their intelligent 3D model creations into a wide range of target CAD systems.

3D laser scanning offers considerable benefits to plant revamp and plant asset management projects. However, the process of modelling 3D laser scan data can be a time-consuming exercise, as fitting structural elements and modelling single pipe runs can be a slow and error-prone process. LFM Modeller allows users to rapidly create 3D models at an unsurpassed rate, without compromise.

3D models created in LFM Modeller are also exceptionally accurate and are relied upon by leading Owner Operators to document their as-built conditions for safety, inspection, maintenance and training purposes.

Use BubbleView modelling to rapidly create intelligent, accurate 3D models.

A large range of standards and components are included in the standard library.

Smooth, intelligent export of as-built models into CAD package.

Extensive CAD manipulation and editing facilities allow the user to manipulate the model until the modelling objectives have been achieved.

LFM NetView™

LFM NetView allows users to securely access remote 3D laser scan data. More than an online viewing package, it provides tools that allow users to work collaboratively with laser scan data over the Internet. LFM NetView is innovative in its approach to sharing 3D laser scan data online, as it connects back to the master LFM Server data set. This approach ensures that resolution of 3D laser scan data is maintained when accessed remotely. Alternative Internet-based products involve the transfer of laser data, inevitably necessitating a loss of resolution.

LFM NetView is intuitive and requires no formal training, while simultaneously offering more functionality than simple web-enabled viewing packages. For instance, annotations and measurements can be made at any time during a live session, enabling full project collaboration.

LFM NetView is also available in a stand-alone mode. This enables users to operate via the Internet and then switch easily to a file-based local or Intranet mode.

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Key Features

LFM Software – Applications

Engineering

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Owner-Operator

Service Provider

Whether you are a service provider looking for fast database generation; an Owner Operator looking for an effective asset management tool; or a designer working on the latest process plant for a major oil & gas multinational company, the use of LFM Software brings business benefits to brownfield and as-built documentation projects.

LFM can be used on a wide variety of applications, including:

Design verification

Tie-in location

Clash detection

Project collaboration

Bid documents

Demolition definition

Verify against design model

Quality assurance

Registration

Modelling

Verify survey control

Work package planning

Collaboration with engineering & vendors

Manage assets

Decommissioning

Manage change

Quality control

Workshare

Database generation

LFM Software – Comparison Matrix

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LFM Scan Gateway LFM Scan Gateway allows users to importany 3D laser scan data format into theLFM suite. Scan data imported intoLFM Scan Gateway is relevant throughoutthe entire LFM Software portofolio.

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LFM Software Limited believes the information in this publication is correct as of its publication date. As part of continued product development, such information is subject to change without prior notice and is related to the current software release. LFM Software Limited is not responsible for any inadvertent errors. All product names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective holders.

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