Point cloud to IFC

Your scan, an IFC model of the facade, reviewed by you.

Upload E57, LAS, LAZ or PLY. Every window, door, vent, railing and wall is proposed and then measured against your own points; you accept, reject or edit before anything leaves. IFC 4 out, with the evidence for every element.

Packs from $49 for 1,000 m² of facade, charged only when you download · 500 free credits on every new account · no subscription.

What you get

A model you can hand over, not a point cloud with boxes on it.

Every opening, classed

Windows, doors and vents as IFC elements with their own size and position, hosted in the wall they belong to.

Measured, or it says so

Each element carries whether the cloud held the evidence for its dimensions, and the reason when it did not.

Reviewed by a person

Accept, reject or edit each element in the viewer, against the cloud, with a keystroke each.

IFC 4, opens in Revit

The proposal and your reviewed model, linked into Revit or opened in Archicad, BIMcollab or any IFC viewer, plus a PDF report and the evidence images.

Measured, not promised

What it gets right, on a surveyed building.

On one named building of a surveyed estate, scored against the surveyor's own IFC: 99 % of the windows found, and 94 % of the windows we drew are theirs, 96 % of the wall surface covered, and every door found.

On buildings nobody had read before, on clouds four times thinner, we find 75 % of the windows — we publish that too, because it is the figure that tells you what a new building does.

We do not quote a tolerance. The third-party references in this field disagree with each other within 10 cm on 2 % of the windows they share, so a "10 cm" from any supplier is a statement about their reference, not their model. What we publish instead is what each element says about itself, and the per-axis errors on a named building.

A generated facade model over the point cloud it was measured from.
The model AutoIFC drew, over the cloud it was measured from: the wall in blue, the openings in green.

How it runs

Four steps, one of them yours.

  1. 01

    Upload the scan

    One file per project, E57, LAS, LAZ or PLY, colour used where present.

    the facade is measured at upload

  2. 02

    AutoIFC reads it

    Every element is proposed in metres, in the facade's own frame, with a confidence.

    minutes, not days

  3. 03

    It is measured

    Each box is measured against your points, or the engine abstains and says why.

    measured, or it says why not

  4. 04

    You review, then download

    Credits are charged at the first download, on the area actually modelled.

    IFC 4 · report · evidence images

Straight answers

What people ask before uploading.

What does it cost?

One credit is one square metre of facade modelled. Packs start at $49 for 1,000 m², about two building fronts, and the rate falls to $0.030 per m² in the largest pack. Every new account starts with 500 free credits. You are charged when you download, once per run, on the area the run actually modelled.

Which formats and scanners?

Any terrestrial or mobile scanner that exports E57, LAS, LAZ or PLY. Colour is used when the scan carries it, and helps tell a door from a window.

What is modelled?

Facades: walls cut by storey, windows, doors, vents, railings, terraces, copings, string courses and the plinths under them. Interiors, roofs and terrain are not in this version.

Does it work with Revit?

Yes. What you download is IFC 4, which Revit reads with Link IFC and which Archicad, BIMcollab, Navisworks and any IFC viewer open directly. The walls, windows, doors and vents arrive as typed elements with stable GUIDs, so a re-export lands on the same objects rather than duplicating them. We do not ship an .rvt file.

Can I check it against my own model?

Yes. Send the reference IFC with the scan and the run is scored against it, giving you the same table we publish, for your building: how much of your model we found, and how much of ours is yours.

Do you train on my scans?

No. Your scans, the images derived from them and your models are used to run your own projects and nothing else, and the model provider processes them under terms that exclude training.

Upload a facade and see.

500 free credits on every new account, about one building front. Running and reviewing are free; you pay only to take the model out.