Autodesk was quick to note in its announcement that 3D scanning, like 3D printing, isn’t exactly a new process — both technologies have existed in various forms over the past 10 years.

ReCap is geared to "visualize, clean and organize" reality-capture data, he says. Expected to be available by April 12th, ReCap is part of Autodesk's rebranded software portfolio update for 2014.