A North Sea service company detailed a need to replace a liquid waste separator. With the unit in constant use, the preference to send the unit to the fabricator to allow a ‘like-for-like’ measurement and fabrication campaign was negated, with a maximum preferred ‘out-of-service’ duration of 3 days being requested.
This led our partner to request that the unit be scanned in-situ, and the data converted into ‘workshop-ready’ fabrication drawings.
This wasn’t a scanning problem, it was a dimensional certainty problem.
Viewport3 was contracted to deliver engineering grade dimensional assurance, capturing the asset in situ and converting it directly into CAD and fabrication-ready outputs.
To ensure data quality and long-term auditability:
The capture operations took a total of ten hours, helping to avoid an unnecessarily long disruption to operations.
The photogrammetry dataset was processed into a ultra high-fidelity 3D model and analysed using reverse-engineering techniques suited to fabricated process equipment.
From this, Viewport3 produced:
The deliverables were engineered for fabrication, pursuant to the engineering experience of the Viewport3 team.
During a visit to the fabricator’s yard a few weeks later, our Director Richard was invited to examine progress on the fabrication work, and was pleased to see the final product coming to life. The 3D scan-to-CAD process enabled the workflow requested by the end-client and the preference to minimise the downtime was enabled.
By delivering verifiable, fabrication-ready 2D drawings, Viewport3 enabled:
This project demonstrates how scan-to-CAD becomes dimensional assurance when accuracy, verification and engineering intent are treated as non-negotiable.
