How do I share an Xgrids scan without sending the software?
Upload the LCC or LCC2 package as a ZIP, or the loose files, and send a link. The scan opens in the browser: orbit it or walk through it at eye level, click the ground to move, and measure on it. Nothing to install, no account for whoever opens it.
The scan looks incredible in LCC Studio. The client will never see it there.
They are not installing Xgrids software to look at one capture.
Your client cannot run the Xgrids software, and should not have to.
A fly-through video shows the scan but nobody can look where they want, and a screenshot is a screenshot.
LCC and LCC2 open in the browser.
Both scene versions and both tile compressions. Upload the ZIP, or drop the loose files in and Swyvl reassembles the scene. The client clicks a link.
A fly-through is a guided tour. The client wants to walk the site.
They want to stand in the plant room, look up, and check the clearance.
Walk mode at eye level, with collisions.
Click the ground to walk there. Collisions keep the client at eye level and out of walls on any capture that includes a mesh. Set the start view and the walking pace once.
A number read off a splat gets treated as a survey figure.
Nobody downstream can tell whether the dimension came from a mesh or a guess.
Measurements badged with what they rest on.
Point, distance, area and height, on the mesh. True scale on a scan with a mesh, Georeferenced when the export is, Indicative without a mesh. The badge says which.
What you can send
Exports from the Lixel line, with the mesh included for collisions and measurement.
In practice
The 3D capture company Swyvl grew out of, delivering to mining and energy clients
360° video walkthroughs and Xgrids Gaussian splats of plant and pit, delivered on one branded link per site. A site manager opens it, walks the capture at eye level, and checks a clearance without installing anything.
A real Swyvl account. Name withheld.
How it works
Export with the mesh
Include the mesh when you export from Xgrids software. It is what gives the client collisions in Walk mode and True scale measurements.
Upload the package
ZIP or loose files, up to 100 GB. Swyvl extracts the scene and anchors it to the site and the visit.
Send the link
The client orbits or walks through the capture in their browser and measures on it. 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
Which Xgrids formats open in Swyvl?
Should I include the mesh in the export?
Can the client walk through it on a share link?
Are the measurements survey grade?
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