How do I share a laser scan with a client who has no software?
Upload the E57, LAS or LAZ your scanner software exported and send one link. Your client opens the scan in the browser, orbits it and measures on it, with nothing to install and no account. Nothing gets downloaded unless you allow it, and the link does not expire.
The scan is finished. Now the client has to open it.
They do not have CloudCompare, Cyclone or ReCap, and their IT will not install it.
The client cannot open an E57, and will not be installing anything.
A 30 GB scan arrives on a hard drive or a WeTransfer that expires in a week, and then the phone call about how to open it.
It opens in the browser.
Swyvl converts the scan to a streaming format on upload, so the client clicks the link and orbits the cloud as it loads, on a laptop, a tablet or a locked-down office machine. No plugin, no account.
Overnighting drives, or a transfer link with a size limit and a shelf life.
Survey deliverables are reference documents. The client needs them next year for the dispute, not for seven days.
One permanent link, files up to 100 GB each.
Upload straight from the browser, resume if the connection drops, revoke the link the second you need to. It keeps working until you say otherwise.
They ask you for a dimension every time.
A width, a clearance, a height difference: each one is an email, a screenshot and half an hour.
They measure it themselves, on the link.
Point, distance, area and height tools in the viewer, badged with the frame the numbers are in. Measurements are not saved, so nothing in your delivery changes.
What you can send
Export from Cyclone, Scene, RealWorks, ReCap or Xgrids software and upload what comes out.
How it works
Upload the export
Drag the E57 or LAS onto the site it belongs to. Swyvl reads the header, converts it to COPC and anchors it to the visit.
Create the link
View-only or view-and-download. Open to anyone with the URL, password-protected, or restricted to named people. Your logo on it.
The client clicks
The scan loads in their browser. They orbit, colour by height or intensity, and measure. You see when they opened it.
Nine in ten Swyvl share links get opened by the client. Free to start, no credit card.
Questions people ask first
Does my client need CloudCompare or a Leica viewer?
Which scanner exports work?
Can the client download the original?
How big can the scan be?
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