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Re:Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application by emilburzo on Saturday February 18, 2023 @01:13AM (#34844431)
This was one of the unexpected extra benefits of having a robot vacuum with LIDAR, free accurate floorplan after one sweep.

Obviously you just get an image, but for what I needed (map in home assistant with sensors overlaid) it was enough.

Re:Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application by judge2020 on Saturday February 18, 2023 @01:27AM (#34844503)
The vacuum navigates and route plans based on the geometry, though, so chances are the actual map is on the device. Robot vacuums are competitive and plentiful enough to where there has to be one with a way to download the map from some endpoint on the device, or at least a way to pop it open and pull out some SD card. Of course, it’d probably be in a proprietary format, so transforming it into a usable mesh might be tougher than getting the data.
Re:Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application by namibj on Sunday February 19, 2023 @04:30PM (#34862057)
Those scanners are IIUC typically line scanners, though.