A client we did marketing for produces gaming rigs - the metal frames. He's putting it together in the USA, and is super proud of his product (simfab.com) and the way wires come together, the whole modular design. But he struggles with massive Chinese competition ripping his designs off, and also people not understanding which part of the product is his own, and which are the third parties.

So he has the wires in SolidWorks, and everything, but when he needs to showcase the product in 3D he lacks the meshes of all his partner products. And nobody ever's gonna give these out as it is industrial design intellectual property.

It is super apparent that at some point he starts doing lidar point-clouds and having these third-parties scanned (first), and eventually modeled in 3D again by some mesh artist.

Pretty sure his situation is super common. So this GOOG thing is huge for himself and others, who don't even have the lidar option.