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SHARE SLAM S20 can be used for renovation measurement, indoor spatial capture, and site measurement on small and medium-sized projects. After scanning, it creates measurable, reviewable point cloud data. In SHARE PointClouds Studio, users can process the data, prepare the point cloud, and use CAD drafting tools to assist with creating initial floor plans or sections. These results can then be exported in DWG or DXF format for further editing.
For renovation design teams, SHARE SLAM S20 does more than replace a tape measure or laser distance meter. It connects site capture, dimensional review, and downstream drafting in a practical digital workflow.
1. Which Interior Measurement and Spatial Capture Projects Are a Good Fit for SHARE SLAM S20?
SHARE SLAM S20 is particularly useful for projects with complex site geometry, a large amount of information to record, or a need to continue measuring, drafting, and working with site data after scanning.
Typical applications include measurement for villas and large residences, retail renovation, office fit-out design, construction-stage review, MEP documentation, and selected factory planning and spatial survey projects.
1.1 Villas, Large Residences, and Complex Layouts
Villas, large apartments, and complex residential layouts require more than a few room dimensions. They often include multiple floors, stairs, voids, irregular walls, beams, columns, doors, and windows.
Traditional measurement requires each item to be recorded individually, while spatial relationships between floors often need repeated manual checks. After scanning with SHARE SLAM S20, teams can create a complete indoor point cloud and review or measure it floor by floor as required.
If wall lengths, door and window positions, or beam-and-column relationships need to be checked later in the design stage, teams can return to the point cloud as long as the relevant areas were captured completely.
1.2 Retail Store Renovation
Retail renovation projects often lack original drawings, or the available drawings no longer match current site conditions. The space may also contain counters, equipment, storefront elements, glass partitions, and other existing structures.
SHARE SLAM S20 can capture existing conditions before renovation and preserve the store as a measurable point cloud. This provides a practical reference for layout revisions, dimensional review, CAD drafting, and construction coordination.
For chain stores or projects involving designers, contractors, and other stakeholders, a complete site dataset can provide a more consistent information base than photos and handwritten dimensions alone.
1.3 Office Fit-Out Design
Office and commercial building projects often cover larger areas. In addition to walls, doors, and windows, they may include structural grids, meeting rooms, reception areas, open workspaces, ceilings, and selected MEP information.
SHARE SLAM S20 can capture existing conditions before fit-out design. Teams can then use the point cloud to review dimensions and spatial relationships, and prepare the data for CAD drafting.
For projects that reconfigure functional zones within an existing space, the point cloud can serve as a spatial base for design and site verification.
1.4 Construction-Stage Review and Handover Support
SHARE SLAM S20 can also support site data capture during selected construction and completion stages.
For example, after construction work is completed, teams can scan the current condition, review walls, openings, structural locations, and selected construction dimensions, and preserve a digital record for later drawing checks.
It is important to distinguish scan-assisted review from formal project acceptance. SHARE SLAM S20 provides digital site capture and reference data; it does not replace the acceptance criteria, inspection procedures, or professional testing equipment required by a project.
1.5 Digital Documentation of MEP Services
Once electrical, plumbing, fire protection, and HVAC services are concealed behind walls, panels, or ceilings, many locations can no longer be inspected directly.
Scanning with SHARE SLAM S20 before the services are concealed can record their spatial relationships with walls, ceilings, and other structures. The data can support future maintenance queries, construction verification, and project documentation.
Projects with highly complex MEP systems, professional BIM deliverables, or defined accuracy requirements will still require downstream modeling, classification, and manual verification in accordance with project standards.
1.6 Factory Planning and Spatial Surveying
Factories and warehouses also require existing dimensions and spatial geometry during renovation, equipment layout changes, and planning.
SHARE SLAM S20 can be used for selected indoor factories, small and medium-sized warehouses, and existing-condition capture, including walls, structural grids, door openings, and major spatial relationships.
For large industrial sites, high-rise structures, outdoor terrain, or longer-range capture, choose a wider-area, engineering-oriented scanner such as SHARE SLAM S100 according to the project scope.
2. Can Measurements Be Taken Again After Scanning with SHARE SLAM S20?
Yes. After processing, data captured with SHARE SLAM S20 forms a 3D point cloud. Areas that were captured completely can be viewed, measured, and reviewed again in SHARE PointClouds Studio.
During renovation design, teams often need to reconfirm wall lengths, door and window openings, beam and column positions, or local structural dimensions.
Traditional measurement relies mainly on site notes, sketches, and photos. If a dimension was not recorded, another site visit may be required.
Point cloud data preserves spatial geometry. When the scan coverage is complete, many general dimensions can be taken directly in the software.
However, a point cloud cannot provide information that was not captured on site. If cabinets, furniture, or equipment completely block an area from the laser, that area will still need to be measured separately.
3. How Does SHARE SLAM S20 Scan Data Move into CAD?
The SHARE SLAM S20-to-CAD workflow typically includes site scanning, data processing, point cloud preparation, CAD drafting, and downstream editing.
3.1 On-Site Scanning
Use SHARE SLAM S20 to capture the indoor space, with particular attention to the walls, doors, windows, beams, columns, corners, and other structures required for later measurement and drafting.
Keep the scan path as continuous as possible and minimize gaps in critical areas.
3.2 Data Processing
After scanning, import the captured data into SHARE PointClouds Studio for processing.
The processed point cloud can then be viewed and prepared for measurement, cropping, and CAD drafting.
3.3 Point Cloud Preparation
Before CAD drafting, rotate, level, and crop the point cloud according to project needs.
For example, on a residential project, retaining only the current floor and main indoor area while removing outdoor space, corridors, and other irrelevant areas can make the drafting scope clearer.
The prepared point cloud can also be used directly for dimensional review.
3.4 Draft CAD Floor Plans and Sections
Once the point cloud has been prepared, users can access the CAD drafting tools in SHARE PointClouds Studio.
For relatively regular spaces such as residences, retail stores, and offices, the tools can assist with creating an initial CAD floor plan.
For larger or more complex spaces, or projects that need to be handled by zone, users can extract sections at the required locations to create section drawings or local CAD outputs.
These outputs are intended as a starting point for drafting and dimensional review. Designers must still check them against the point cloud and the project's drawing requirements.
3.5 DWG/DXF Export and Further Editing
CAD outputs can be exported in formats such as DWG and DXF for revision, annotation, and further development in standard CAD software.
Designers can use the point cloud as an underlay to review walls, openings, and local structural positions before completing the final drawings in accordance with project standards.
Therefore, a more accurate explanation of "Can SHARE SLAM S20 produce CAD drawings?" is:
SHARE SLAM S20 captures site data, SHARE PointClouds Studio supports point cloud preparation and draft CAD generation, and design professionals review and complete the final drawings.
4. Why Does the Data after Scanning Matter for Interior Measurement?
The efficiency of an interior 3D scanner should not be judged only by how quickly the site can be scanned.
For design teams, the ability to continue measuring, reviewing, and using the data in CAD is often more important than scan speed alone.
A complete digital interior measurement workflow includes at least three stages: site capture, data review, and downstream drafting.
If the data cannot be measured, prepared, or integrated into an existing design workflow after the scan, the practical value of scanning is limited.
The key value of SHARE SLAM S20 is that its point cloud data can continue to support downstream work.
For example, point clouds can help reconfirm existing dimensions in renovation projects, review relationships between floors and stair areas in villas, provide a CAD underlay for retail and office projects, and preserve a digital record of site conditions at selected construction stages.
5. When Are Manual Measurement and Verification Still Required?
3D scanning can reduce point-by-point measurement and handwritten records, but not every dimension should rely entirely on point cloud data. Manual confirmation is still recommended in the following situations.
5.1 Occluded Areas
If cabinets, furniture, equipment, or other objects completely block a location from the laser, internal dimensions cannot be obtained directly from the point cloud.
5.2 Critical Installation Dimensions
For construction details involving cabinetry, doors, windows, equipment installation, or custom components, verify critical dimensions against the actual installation requirements.
5.3 High-Accuracy Control Locations
Control points or special structures with defined engineering accuracy requirements should not rely only on general point cloud review. Verify them according to the applicable project specifications.
5.4 Final Construction Drawings
CAD floor plans or sections generated in SHARE PointClouds Studio are drafts and a basis for further drafting. Walls, layers, annotations, construction details, and final deliverables must still be revised and completed by qualified professionals according to project requirements.
6. How Should SHARE SLAM S20 Be Used with Traditional Measurement Tools?
In practical projects, scanning and traditional measurement are complementary rather than mutually exclusive.
For small spaces with simple geometry, a tape measure or laser distance meter remains direct and effective.
For information-rich projects such as villas, existing-building renovation, retail stores, and offices, SHARE SLAM S20 can capture the overall space, while a laser distance meter can verify a small number of critical construction dimensions.
This approach preserves a complete point cloud record while allowing targeted checks at key locations.
7. Frequently Asked Questions
Q1. Which interior measurement projects are suitable for SHARE SLAM S20?
It can support residential renovation, existing-home remodeling, villas, complex layouts, retail stores, and office projects. The more complex the space and the greater the need for later dimensional review and drafting, the more useful scanning becomes.
Q2. Can measurements be taken again after scanning with SHARE SLAM S20?
Yes. Areas captured completely can be viewed and measured again in SHARE PointClouds Studio for downstream design and dimensional review.
Q3. How can SHARE SLAM S20 scan data be used to create CAD drawings?
A typical workflow is: on-site scanning with SHARE SLAM S20 → data processing in SHARE PointClouds Studio → point cloud preparation → draft CAD floor plan or section → DWG/DXF export → further editing in CAD software.
Q4. Can a CAD draft from SHARE PointClouds Studio be used directly as a construction drawing?
This is not recommended. CAD drafts are intended to improve early-stage drafting and review efficiency. Final construction drawings must still be checked, revised, and developed by design professionals according to project standards and site conditions.
Q5. Can SHARE SLAM S20 support construction acceptance and MEP documentation?
It can support construction-stage site documentation, dimensional review, and digital records of MEP services. The data can also serve as supporting information for acceptance and as-built documentation. Formal project acceptance must still follow the applicable project standards and procedures.
Q6. Can SHARE SLAM S20 scan factories?
It can be used for selected indoor factories, small and medium-sized warehouses, and existing-condition capture before factory renovation. For large industrial sites, high-rise structures, outdoor terrain, or wide-area engineering surveys, choose a scanner better suited to large-area capture, such as SHARE SLAM S100, according to the project scale.
8. Summary
SHARE SLAM S20 is primarily used for renovation measurement, indoor spatial capture, and digital site documentation on small and medium-sized projects.
In renovation workflows, it can support measurement for villas and large residences, retail store remodeling, and office fit-out design. During construction, it can also support selected project reviews, MEP documentation, and as-built data capture.
After scanning, the point cloud can be measured, reviewed, and prepared for CAD drafting in SHARE PointClouds Studio. DWG and DXF exports can then move into downstream design workflows.
The overall workflow can be summarized as: on-site scanning with SHARE SLAM S20 → data processing → point cloud preparation and review → CAD draft → DWG/DXF export → manual correction and development.
Traditional measurement tools remain effective for simple spaces. For complex layouts, existing-building renovation, villas, commercial fit-outs, and projects that need to reuse site data downstream, 3D scanning provides a practical spatial foundation for CAD workflows.
