From terrestrial scanner outputs to streaming 3D Tiles, Cesium-ready meshes, and BIM-bridged digital twins — the heavy lifting between scan and stream is automated.
Reality-capture firms have the data and the customers. The bottleneck is the conversion between every flavor of point cloud, mesh, and tiled web format their clients keep asking for.
E57, RCP, RCS, PTS, LAZ, COPC — every client wants a different one
3D Tiles, glTF, Cesium ION targets multiplying
BIM hands off in IFC, scanned reality lands in mesh
Texturing and decimation tune-and-rerun loop is brutal
Workflows that move data through the reality-capture pipeline — ingest, classify, mesh, decimate, tile, stream.
| Workflow | Name & what it automates | Time saved |
|---|---|---|
| #48 | LiDAR Merge + COPC Multi-format ingest → merged COPC LAZ for web streaming | — |
| #50 | Point Cloud Retiling Spatial grid tiling for streaming optimization | — |
| #147 | Reality Capture Alignment ICP / target-based alignment to project grid | — |
| #170 | Mesh Generation + Decimation Poisson reconstruction + level-of-detail mesh decimation pipeline | — |
| #171 | 3D Tiles Export Cesium-ready 3D Tiles tileset with implicit tiling and metadata | — |
| #142 | IFC Georeferencing Inject IfcMapConversion + project CRS into IFC4 for BIM-to-twin handoff | — |
| #172 | Texture Atlas Generation Multi-image texture atlas with seam minimization for mesh assets | — |
| #287 | LiDAR QA/QC Suite Per-scan density, voids, and classification audit | — |
| #173 | Photogrammetry Bundle Pack MicMac + Metashape orchestration for terrestrial photogrammetry | — |
Modeled on a reality-capture firm delivering 80 projects/year across AEC, infrastructure, and cultural-heritage clients.
| Metric | Manual / current tooling | GeoDataConverter |
|---|---|---|
| Mesh + 3D Tiles per project | 1–2 days | Hours |
| Format-conversion combinations served | Limited | Any format on demand |
| Annual conversion labor | $240,000 | $30,000 |
| BIM-to-twin handoff defects | Common | Validated by #142 |
The same pipeline that ingests your TLS scans into COPC for QA/QC also produces the Cesium 3D Tiles tileset your AEC client wants for the web viewer — and accepts the BIM-side IFC handoff with proper georeference. One platform, one set of credentials, every output your customer asks for.
Send us one finished reality-capture bundle. We'll regenerate the deliverables — COPC, mesh, 3D Tiles, IFC handoff — and benchmark output size and load times.