One price for the whole scan, however many floors and square feet it covers.
Fixed price, no quote
Scan to BIM Services: Send the Scan, Get the Model
Upload your point cloud and get the whole building back as a Revit and IFC model with DXF floor plans, modeled automatically, for $29 per scan.
- $29 per Scan, All Floors
- No Project Minimum
- Revit, IFC and DXF
$29 per scan · charged only when the model is delivered
The service
How Our Scan to BIM Service Works
You send a point cloud the way you would send it to a modeling firm; the model comes back without anyone tracing it. Our home page follows one real scan to BIM job on a house, step by step.
Send the scan
Upload the point cloud your scanner software exported, as E57, LAS, LAZ or PLY. One file holds the whole building, every floor of it.
It is modeled automatically
Our AI finds each story and models it. Turnaround: usually within a few hours, at most 24 hours, and an email tells you when it’s done.
Check it on your scan
Open the result in your browser and look at the model inside your own point cloud, wall by wall, before you take it.
Download
Take the RVT, the IFC and the DXF plans and continue in Revit, ArchiCAD, AutoCAD or whatever you use.
Price
Point Cloud to BIM Services at a Fixed Price
Most firms quote each project from its floor area. Here the price is set before you upload, and it doesn’t grow with the building.
Nothing to request or negotiate, and no project minimum: one small apartment costs the same as a large hall.
Your card is charged only when the model is delivered, and nothing if the AI can’t produce a reliable one.
Compared
Scan to BIM Modeling Services: Price and Turnaround Compared
The same building, two ways: modeled by a firm that charges per square foot, or modeled automatically here.
| What | Scan-to-BIM service | Automated scan to BIM |
|---|---|---|
| How the model is made | A modeler traces your scan in Revit by hand | The AI models it automatically from your scan |
| Price | Charged per square foot: $1.00–$7.00 for a BIM model | $29 per scan, all floors included |
| A 2,000 sq ft building | $2,000–$14,000 | $29 |
| Minimum | Often a minimum project fee, for example $2,500 (scanning included) | None: $29 per scan |
| Turnaround | 5–10 business days after the scan, at one firm | Usually within a few hours, at most 24 hours |
| When you pay | A quote | Charged only when the model is delivered |
| What is modeled | Agreed per project, can include structure and MEP | Walls, doors, windows, slabs, ceilings, roofs, columns and stairs |
Sources: a US scanning firm’s BIM modeling rates ($1.00 to $7.00 a square foot, times 2,000); another firm’s price guide (minimum fee and turnaround)
Deliverables
What You Get Back: Revit, IFC and DXF
Three files of the same building, so it fits whichever program your team works in.
RVT
Revit projectYour building as a native Revit file, with no IFC import step; it needs Revit 2024 or later.
IFC
Open BIM modelThe full model in the open exchange format, for ArchiCAD, Blender, Revit or any program that reads IFC.
DXF
Floor plansA 2D drawing of each story that AutoCAD opens and can save as DWG.
Curious how a scan turns into a Revit model by hand and automatically? Our guide to point cloud to Revit shows both routes.
Scope
What's Included, and When to Hire a Scan to BIM Company
The model covers the architecture of the building. Some jobs need more than that, and then a firm is the right call.
Included in every model
- Walls: straight, diagonal and curved, each measured on the scan
- Doors and windows, set into their walls
- Slabs, ceilings and roofs, wherever the scan shows them
- Columns and stairs
- Interiors, exteriors and entire buildings, all stories in one model
Not included
- Building services: pipes, ducts and electrical
- Furniture
- Scanning: we don’t come to the site; you need a point cloud of the building
Hire a scan to BIM company when the job needs pipes, ducts or electrical modeled, or someone on site to scan the building. For the walls, openings, floors and roofs of an existing building, sending the scan here is quicker and costs far less.
Examples
Laser Scan to BIM Services for Any Building
Houses of every kind and a large courtyard building: five scans customers sent in, and the models they got back.
A stone house with a tower
A colored E57 scan of a stone house; the tower, the stairs and every floor slab and ceiling came back in the model.
A tall house with bay windows
From one E57 scan: each level with its rooms, the stairs inside and the roof with its dormers on top.
A large building around a courtyard
An LAS scan of the facades facing a courtyard, returned as the outside walls with their windows, glazing and doors.
A family house with a garden
The house came back with its rooms, stairs and roof, together with the paved yard and the ground of the garden.
A house with a curved bay
An E57 scan of the rooms of a house around a curved bay; its curved walls stayed curved, with each door and window.
FAQ
Scan to BIM Services FAQ
Is this a service, or software I use myself?
You use it like a service: you send the scan and receive the model, and you don’t draw anything. The modeling itself is done by our software, automatically. To compare the ways of modeling a scan yourself, see point cloud to BIM software.
What do I need to send?
One point cloud of the building as E57, LAS, LAZ or PLY, exported from your scanner software. Send it whole; there is no need to split it by floor. ReCap projects have to be exported to E57 first.
How soon do I get the model?
The model takes a few hours in most cases and never more than 24 hours. You get an email when it is done, and you can already look at your scan in the browser while you wait.
What does the service cost?
$29 per scan, whatever the size of the building and the number of stories. There is no quote, no project minimum and no subscription, and your card is charged only once the model is delivered.
What isn’t included?
Building services such as pipes, ducts and electrical are not modeled, and neither is furniture. We don’t scan buildings either: you need a point cloud, from your own scanner or from a scanning firm.
When is my card charged?
You choose the model when you upload and your card is saved then. It is charged only when the model is delivered; if our AI can’t produce a reliable model, nothing is charged. Once delivered, you look at the model inside your own point cloud, from any angle.
Which Revit version do I need?
Revit 2024 or later opens the RVT directly, its walls, floors, doors and windows sitting on their levels. With an older Revit or another BIM program, use the IFC of the same building.
Send Your First Scan
Upload the point cloud and get a model of the whole building back, ready for Revit.
Send Your Scan$29 per scan · nothing charged if the AI can’t model it