PRE-RELEASE  ·  PointForge Pro is in final testing. Downloads open at launch.
PointForge Pro

Point cloud processing for Windows

From point clouds to decisions.

Inspect, clean, register, measure, section, mesh and export large reality-capture datasets in one high-performance Windows workspace – without moving your data between disconnected tools.

Free, no licence needed – opens and inspects point clouds. Editing and export need a licence. You will be asked to sign in first so the download can be tied to your account.

  • LAS
  • LAZ
  • E57
  • PLY
  • IFC reference
  • Windows 64-bit
  • GPU accelerated
PointForge Pro displaying a colour point cloud of a city street, with the Scene Explorer tree on the left and the Properties panel with an RGB histogram on the right.
Registered street scan in RGB Scene Explorer, Properties and attribute histogram alongside the viewport

Compatibility

It fits the pipeline you already have

Native survey and scanner formats in, and the deliverables your client, your CAD team and your model coordinator actually asked for out.

Opens

  • LAS
  • LAZ
  • E57
  • PLY
  • IFC

Writes

  • LAS
  • LAZ
  • E57
  • PLY
  • DXF
  • GLB
  • OBJ
  • PDF
  • PNG
  • JPEG
  • TIFF
  • BMP

Workflow

One workspace, start to deliverable

Six stages, all in the same application, with your source data left untouched throughout.

Import

LAS, LAZ, E57 and PLY, plus IFC models as reference geometry. Multi-scan E57 with its metadata and embedded images.

Clean

Statistical and dynamic outlier removal, cluster cleanup, smoothing and downsampling – each previewable before you commit.

Register

Align subsets to a fixed reference with a global search and multi-level refinement, reported with RMS, overlap and confidence.

Inspect

Distances, point-to-plane checks, angles, areas, volumes, detected planes and corner lines, grouped and named.

Section & mesh

Axis, oriented, box and cylindrical sections with generated linework, and open or closed surface reconstruction.

Export

Point clouds, layered DXF, GLB or OBJ meshes, measurement report PDFs and presentation imagery.

Capability

Six things it does that a viewer cannot

High-performance viewing

Navigate large point clouds fluidly with GPU-accelerated visualisation, chunk streaming, adaptive level of detail, orthographic views, X-ray mode, eye-dome lighting, ambient occlusion and professional render controls.

  • Fast
  • Balanced
  • High Quality
  • Ultra

Clean data with confidence

Remove noise with statistical and dynamic outlier removal, clear isolated clusters, smooth surfaces, or downsample by spacing, feature, voxel or target count. Preview supported operations before applying them.

  • SOR
  • DSOR
  • Voxel
  • Feature-aware

Register scans in one workspace

Align multiple subsets to a fixed reference with a coarse global search and multi-level refinement. Results are previewable, and reported per subset with RMS, overlap and confidence before anything is applied.

  • RMS
  • Overlap
  • Confidence

Measure what matters

Direct and projected distances, point-to-plane checks, three-point angles, polygon areas, convex-hull volumes, detected plane areas and corner lines. Organise results into groups and issue them as a PDF report.

  • Distance
  • Angle
  • Area
  • Volume

Build CAD-ready sections

Cut axis-aligned, custom oriented, box and cylindrical sections. Extract the points, generate the linework, and export individual drawings or one merged DXF with a layer per section.

  • Plane
  • Box
  • Cylinder
  • DXF layers

Turn scans into meshes

Generate open or closed surfaces at a target triangle edge length in millimetres, heal minor defects, patch eligible holes, simplify within a stated deviation limit, and export GLB or OBJ.

  • Open
  • Closed
  • GLB
  • OBJ

Visualisation

Eight ways to read the same cloud

A feature that disappears in colour often stands out in height, intensity or return number. Switch attribute, pull a histogram range in, and the geometry you are looking for separates itself from everything else.

  • RGB, intensity, elevation ramp, elevation scalar, classification, return number and point spacing
  • X-ray density view with level, gamma, curve and inversion controls
  • Attribute histograms with range filtering and fine adjustment
  • Brightness, contrast, exposure, gamma, saturation and colour temperature, all resettable
  • Eye-dome lighting and ambient occlusion for shape you can actually read
The same street scan seen from above in orthographic view, coloured by elevation from blue at the lowest points through green and yellow to red at the highest, with an elevation scale down the right-hand side.
Elevation scalar in orthographic view, with the visible height range narrowed to a two-metre band.

Scale

Designed for very large projects

A 64-bit point-count architecture, out-of-core storage and GPU slicing, so project totals are not bounded by a single draw call or a 32-bit counter. Designed for very large and multi-billion-point project totals.

  • Out-of-core project storage with chunk streaming from disk
  • Octree spatial organisation with level-of-detail rendering
  • Camera-aware chunk loading and view-frustum culling
  • Screen-space density control to cut overdraw without losing coverage
  • GPU memory budgeting, cache management and resource-pressure handling
  • Large-coordinate support through rebased rendering
  • Always-available preview representation for fast orientation in a project
  • Four render profiles, plus a built-in benchmark to find your machine's setting
  • Background processing with progress reporting and cancellation
  • Configurable preview budget, sampling percentage and chunk-loading behaviour

Real capacity depends on your dataset structure, storage, RAM, GPU memory and the operation you are running. We would rather you benchmarked it on your own data than trusted a number we picked.

Deliverables

What leaves the building

Measurement and inspection results, CAD linework, meshes and documents – produced from the same project, with the source data intact.

Measurement and inspection

  • Point-to-point and point-to-plane distance
  • X, Y and Z components, and distances projected onto XY, XZ and YZ
  • Three-point angles, with projections onto each plane
  • Polygon area, convex-hull volume and detected plane area
  • Best-fit plane snapping on picked points, with a configurable search radius
  • Labels pinned in the scene and moved for a readable layout
  • Named measurements, organised into groups that persist with the project
  • Professional PDF measurement reports with names, kinds, values and grouping

Files and documents

  • LAS 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4, LAZ, E57 and PLY, with attribute review before export
  • Source scale, offset, VLR and format preserved where full-fidelity export applies
  • WKT coordinate-reference information preserved, omitted or supplied
  • E57 scan name, description and selectable data fields
  • DXF section points and linework, per section or merged with a layer each
  • GLB and OBJ meshes, with companion material data where applicable
  • PNG, JPEG, TIFF and BMP viewport images at a chosen scale, with optional transparency
  • PDF print output – A4 or Letter, portrait or landscape, with header and footer options

Who it's for

Built for the people who have to deliver from the scan

Anyone who has to turn point-cloud observations into measurements, CAD sections, reports or meshes.

Land survey and geospatial

Clean the registered cloud, read levels off the ground surface, cut the sections your drawing needs, and hand back LAS or DXF.

Laser scanning and reality capture

Bring multi-scan E57 in with its metadata and images intact, register the subsets, and issue the deliverable from one project.

Construction verification and as-built

Compare what was built against the IFC reference model, section a floor plate, and record the dimensions that settle the argument.

Architecture, engineering and BIM

Work from a measured record of the building as it stands, mesh the surfaces you need for the model, and export GLB or OBJ.

Industrial inspection

Detect a plane, check perpendicular deviation across it, measure clearances in dense pipework, and report it as a PDF.

Heritage, forensics and documentation

Keep a full-fidelity record, take dimensions from it years later, and produce printable output straight from the project.

Platform

What you need to run it

Operating systemWindows 64-bit
GraphicsA discrete GPU. More graphics memory means more of the project resident at once.
Navigation devicesMouse and keyboard, with optional 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse and Sony DualSense support
VROptional OpenXR session support, subject to a compatible headset and runtime
LicenceOne seat per licence, on whichever machine you sign in from
Format support in full
Format Import Export Primary use
LASYesYesSurvey and lidar point clouds with attributes
LAZYesYesCompressed survey and lidar exchange
E57YesYesScanner exchange, multi-scan data, metadata and images
PLYYesYesPoint clouds with colour, intensity and normals
IFCYesBIM reference geometry
DXFYesSection points and CAD linework
GLBYesCompact mesh exchange
OBJYesGeneral mesh exchange
PDFYesPrint output and measurement reports
PNG / TIFFYesLossless imagery, transparency, publication and print
JPEG / BMPYesCompact and uncompressed viewport imagery

Pricing

One seat per licence. Every feature in all of them.

No capability tiers and nothing held back for an enterprise plan. The only thing you choose is the term.

Monthly

For a single project or a subcontract.

€79 / month

Choose monthly

Three years

Standardising a team, at €49 a month.

€1,764 / 3 years

Choose three years

Prices in EUR, excluding any tax due in your country. Full pricing and what a licence covers →

Questions

Asked before buying

How large a project can it handle?

It is designed for very large and multi-billion-point project totals, using 64-bit point counts, out-of-core storage and chunked GPU rendering rather than trying to hold everything in memory at once. What you get in practice depends on your dataset structure, storage, RAM, GPU memory and the operation you are running – which is why there is a benchmark built in, so you can measure it on your own data instead of taking our word for it.

Will it change my original files?

No. Cleanup, transforms and registration are computed as results you can preview, and are held as project edit state until you choose to bake them. Cleanup operations create new subsets rather than overwriting the input, undo and redo cover supported operations, and your source file is left exactly as the scanner wrote it.

Can it register scans, or do I need another tool first?

It registers them. Pick a fixed reference subset and one or more moving subsets, run a global search with configurable roll, pitch and yaw ranges followed by multi-level refinement, and read the per-subset result table – status, RMS, overlap, confidence, translation and rotation – before you apply anything. Accuracy depends on your source quality, overlap and configuration, so validate the result as you would with any registration.

What about IFC – can I edit the model?

No, and it does not pretend to. IFC comes in as reference geometry: tessellated for display so you can see the design intent alongside the scan in the same workspace, for visual comparison and context. It is not an IFC authoring or editing tool.

Is the VR support usable, or a checkbox?

It is a real OpenXR session with rendering, preview and near-dense detail handling built for it. It is optional, and it needs a compatible OpenXR runtime and headset – so treat it as something you enable if you already have the hardware, not a reason to buy any.

How many machines can I use one licence on?

A licence is one seat – one person working at a time, on whichever machine they are sitting at. Sign in on a different computer and the seat moves with you; sign out to free it for a colleague. Buy as many licences as you need under one account, in any mix of terms.

Can I download it today?

Not yet – it is in final testing and downloads open at launch. Create an account now and we will email you the moment the installer is available.

Start with your own data

Licences from €79 a month, one seat each, every feature included. Create an account now and you will have the installer as soon as it ships.

PointForge Pro| Windows 64-bit| LAS · LAZ · E57 · PLY · IFC| DXF · GLB · OBJ · PDF| Pre-release