Abstract: A system and method provide for rapid generation of 3D models of complex environments by using a coordinate measurement machine to scan an environment having one or more objects to generate a point cloud comprising a plurality of points, analyzing the points without creating surfaces using the points to determine boundaries of the environment and boundaries of the object within the environment, excising a region of points within the point cloud representing the object, where the excised region of points is determined using the boundaries of the environment and the boundaries of the object, and creating a modified point cloud by replacing the excised region of points with a digital object from a digital object library.

Abstract: An imaging system includes: a first imaging data receiving component that receives first three-dimensional image data of a first area and a portion of a second area; a first data storage component that stores the first three-dimensional image data; a second imaging data receiving component that receives second three-dimensional image data of the second area and a portion of the first area; a second data storage component that stores the second three-dimensional image data; a stitching component that stitches the first three-dimensional image data together with the second three-dimensional image data to produce stitched three-dimensional image data of the first area and the second area; and a stitched data storage component that stores the stitched three-dimensional image data. The first area is optically isolated from the second area with the exception of through a throughway.