Alex Martin
Pen name - 3D scanning practitioner
Alex Martin is the pen name under which the Scan2Reality guides are published. Behind the name: years of reality capture practice on construction, heritage, surveying and industrial projects - in the field, at the processing desk, and all the way to the BIM model.
Paperback editions: author store on AmazonWhy a pen name?
A deliberate separation between professional activity and publishing. We own what this choice implies: no title, no degree and no affiliation are claimed here. The only credibility that matters is the kind you can verify yourself - every book page publishes its full table of contents and a free excerpt, so you can judge the content before any purchase.
The approach
Written from the field
The methods described were applied on real projects before being written - access constraints, deadlines, weather and imperfect data included.
Criteria, not slogans
Quantified comparisons, decision trees, full costs (TCO): the books give you frameworks to decide, not generalities.
From sensor to model
Acquisition (TLS, SLAM, drone, photogrammetry), point cloud processing, and BIM deliverables: the chain is covered end to end.
Areas covered by the books
Construction & renovation
As-built surveys, 3D diagnostics, scan-to-BIM applied to retrofit projects.
Heritage
Digitization of historical structures, digital archiving, HBIM.
Surveying
Drone and scanner surveys, georeferencing, accuracy control.
Industry
Digital twins of facilities, surveys of plants and complex networks.
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- Free excerpt of every book, readable before purchase
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- Edition updates included after purchase
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