Aug Reality CAD Scouting?

[OccamzRazor]

Augmented reality using the eDrawings app on your smartphone will let you load your CAD model of your robot and project it using a QR code. I havent tried this for FRC but my clients love it when you can project a model onto the table using a mobile device such as a tablet.

Edit: I found the source for this tech here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVcIaBAQSE4

[RyanCahoon]

It'd be a fun thing to have to hand out at competitions, I'd love to see this done.

I don't see it replacing pictures of the actual robot though; I'd still have my scouts take them. CAD models aren't always kept up to date with developments on the physical robot (or things may have been designed but never built).

Also the infamous bumper quality metric wouldn't be well represented in a CAD model

[dirtbikerxz]

Several hours of googling later, I finally settled on augment.com. It simply requires you to convert the CAD file to a format that it likes. You can also do textures and colors on the cad model, I just didn't in this video, since i didn't know how yet at the time. You can also upload "custom trackers" which is basically custom "images" or etc and link that to your CAD file, so anyone that scans that image (potentially a spec sheet of the robot), will get the robot in Augmented reality. Another feature of the app: for people who don't want to do the whole "Augmented reality" thing, after scanning the "tracker" they can just hit the "3d model" button and just view the cad file straight.

Although the software is expensive, you can apply for an education license.

Here is a screen recording of the app: https://vid.me/vaz3 . (This recording has the "free trial viewer" watermark on it, because I recorded this last night, and didn't receive my education license till this morning. (if a person has a license, than anyone viewing their model will automatically have the free trial watermark removed)).

If anyone wants to try it out, download the Augment app from the play store or app store, and print out the image ("tracker") I attached to this post, and "scan" it with the app. (Make sure you print the image out in full color).