3D Scanning in Woodland, CA

Woodland incorporated in 1871 and is the Yolo County seat, and its downtown is one of the most intact in the valley. The Downtown Woodland Historic District, listed on the National Register in 1999, runs roughly along Main Street from Elm Street to Third Street and counts 59 contributing buildings from 1866 to 1947, in styles from Commercial Italianate and Richardson Romanesque to Mission Revival and Streamline Moderne. The Woodland Opera House on Second Street was designed in 1885 by San Francisco architect Thomas J. Welsh, burned in 1892, and was rebuilt in 1895 and 1896. It is California Historical Landmark No. 851, became a state historic park in 1976, and reopened in 1989 after a long closure and restoration. A few blocks away, the 1917 Yolo County Courthouse by William Henry Weeks, Beaux-Arts with marble rotundas, now houses the county Probation Department. Buildings of this age have been reworked many times, and a scan records their facades, interiors, and floor levels as they really are before an architect draws a change.

Outside downtown, Woodland is an agriculture and food processing town. Pacific Coast Producers and the Target Distribution Center are among its largest employers. Those are two very different scanning jobs. A processing plant is crowded: tanks, process piping, platforms, and conveyors packed between columns, often with equipment swapped out in the short window between seasons, so the engineer needs a complete measured record of the space before ordering anything. A distribution building is open and large, and the questions are clear heights, column grids, dock positions, and how flat the slab really is before racking goes in. We deliver slab deviation and levelness maps for that, and on new buildings we verify anchor bolts and structural steel to 1/8 inch from the scan, adding total station check shots on any bolt group near tolerance.

Every job starts with control: primary GNSS control, secondary control by Trimble S3 total station, and Trimble X9 scans registered to it in Trimble Business Center, in US survey feet. Control is held to 0.01 US survey feet relative to project control, and tighter verification is available on request with the achieved accuracy stated in the report. Deliverables are a registered, cleaned point cloud in E57, LAS, or RCP, scan-to-CAD plans, sections, elevations, 3D linework, and coded points, plus a report giving the control basis, units, and accuracy achieved. Woodland is on Interstate 5 just north of Davis, close enough that a building on Main Street and a plant on the edge of town can share one field trip. See 3D laser scanning, as-built surveys, scanning in Davis, and our Woodland surveying page.