Autodesk announces ReCap, a free, key addition to the complete 2014 portfolio of Suites which is a family software and services on the desktop and in the cloud to create intelligent 3D data from ...

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.

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.