Does Nira support point cloud files?

Yes, point cloud viewing is supported on all current plans (Individual, Professional, and Enterprise).

Point cloud viewing is not supported on legacy plans such as Core or Business (Learn more).

Current Features:

• The Nira viewer supports datasets with an unlimited amount of points.
• Filetype support: E57, LAS, and LAZ.  You can upload multiple point cloud files together in a single asset, but they must be uploaded together at the same time.
• Embedded bubble/360 Panoramic views are supported with E57 files. 
  • Spherical and Cubemap (pinhole) projections
  • Cylindrical and visual reference images do not appear to be widely used, so we chose not to support them.  Feel free to reach out if you require support for either.
  • Nira does not currently reconstruct panoramic images from the scan data.
  • Learn more about panoramic image support in Nira here - Bubble/360 Panoramic view support with E57 files
• Point cloud files can be uploaded with any other file, so you can mix your point cloud dataset with a textured mesh and/or photos.
• Georeferenced LAS and LAZ files will display point locations in WGS84 World Geodetic (EPSG code 4326) as well as the projected coordinate system used during export of your processing software.

Current Limitations to be addressed in a future update:

• Point cloud files cannot be appended to an existing asset. To combine data, such as a textured mesh or orthomosaic, with a point cloud dataset, you must upload them simultaneously.  However, mesh and orthomosaic data can be added to an existing point cloud dataset.
• Processing point cloud data can be time consuming. There are still many opportunities for optimization, and we plan to improve this in the future.  If you're uploading more than 300
• .laz files with COPC data are not supported. If you wish to upload .laz files, turn off the COPC option in your .laz exporting tool. If an option to turn off COPC isn't available, please use .las instead.

Choose "Photogrammetry" when uploading Point Cloud files.

Uploading a PLY, PTS, PTX, XYZ, OBJ, or FBX file that contains point cloud data will fail to process.  We plan to expand file format support in the future. To check if an OBJ file is formatted as a point cloud, open it in a text editor (note that most text editors will crash when opening files larger than 1 GB). Look for lines starting with "f" followed by a space (without quotes). If no such lines are present, the file contains no triangles or faces and was exported as a point cloud.

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