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, with the 360° photos from your E57 beside it, measures on it and replies on your notes, 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. Their measurements change nothing in your delivery. Save one yourself as a note and the number stays pinned on the scan, where the client can reply. How notes work.
The 360° photos in the E57 never reach the client.
Your scanner saved a photo at every setup. Convert to LAS and they are gone, and the vendor viewers that do show them only work with their own data.
The 360° photos open beside the scan.
Swyvl pulls the 360s out of the E57 on upload, including Leica and Matterport cube faces. Each setup shows as a disc in the cloud: click one and the photo opens side by side with the point cloud, turning together. Measure in the photo and the numbers come from the scan behind it. Why that matters.
Feedback comes back as a screenshot with a red circle on it.
Which setup? Which wall? The email thread loses the place, and the next person on the job never sees it.
Notes pinned on the spot, with a sketch.
Pin a note in the cloud or in a 360 photo and it lands on the 3D point, so it shows in both. Add a sketch: capture the view and draw on it with arrows, shapes and text. Clients you invite by email reply on the note, free, with no account. On a georeferenced scan, the note is waiting at the same spot when you upload the next scan of the site.
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 converts it to COPC for streaming, pulls out any 360° photos stored in the E57 and files it under 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, step into the 360s, measure and reply on your notes. 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?
Will the client see the 360° photos from my E57?
Can the client comment on the scan?
Can the client download the original?
How big can the scan be?
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