9.7 Export Formats and Sharing

Save Your Edits Before You Export

Export writes from the saved model, not from what is on your screen. If you edit a model and export without saving first, the export contains the original, unedited model, and the work is gone. Lock in this order before you export anything.

1. Set a clean checkpoint. In the Model Editor, Save writes to an empty folder, so the source stays intact and your saved edits become a separate copy. In the Scene Editor, use File then Save As before major edits.
2. Make your edits in the Model Editor's Edit Mode for point-level cropping and color grading, or the Scene Editor for scene cleanup, viewpoints, and annotations.
3. Commit them. In the Model Editor, click Save, or accept the save prompt when you leave Edit Mode. Choose Save, never Discard. In the Scene Editor, use File then Save.
4. Verify once. Reopen the saved model and confirm the edits are there. Do this the first time on any workstation, so you never have to trust it blindly again.

Choose the Format for the Job

The format decides which software can open the model, how large the file is, and how it renders. Pick it from what the recipient will do with the model, not from a default. One format, 3D Tiles, carries conditions that must be set during reconstruction, so read Section 3 before you process the scan rather than after.

Conditions You Set at Reconstruction Time

3D Tiles cannot be produced from just any finished model. Its two conditions are set while the scan reconstructs, not at export. Verify both before you click Start, because the only fix afterward is to reprocess, and one of them cannot be fixed at all without returning to the site.

• Absolute coordinates. The scan must carry RTK or control point data. A model processed without georeferencing has no real-world coordinates and cannot export to 3D Tiles. Georeferencing cannot be added after the scan, so this is a field decision, not a workstation one.
• 4 million Gaussian points or fewer. Models above this count cannot export as 3D Tiles. If WebGIS delivery is a firm requirement, set Maximum Gaussian Points at or below 4 million during reconstruction.

Export Procedures

Select the completed model card in My Models, click the ... button in the upper-right corner of the card, and choose Export. Pick the format in the dialog and confirm. LCC2 and 3D Tiles each offer an additional choice inside that dialog.

Export LCC2

1. Open Export from the model card and select LCC2 in the File Format dropdown.
2. Choose the compression format. SOG gives the smallest file, an 8 to 26 times reduction, and is the default for the LCC ecosystem. SPZ gives about a 10 times reduction and is compatible with the Niantic and Scaniverse ecosystem. A single LCC2 file uses one compression format; the two are never mixed.
3. Check additional options as needed. Include Mesh adds collision data. Spatial Recognition results are included only if that feature was enabled during reconstruction.
4. Choose the save location and confirm.

Export 3D Tiles

1. Open Export from the model card and select 3D Tiles.
2. Select the version. The current version uses SPZ v2 compression for smaller files and cleaner rendering, and needs a recent Cesium build. The legacy version targets older Cesium deployments. The dialog states the requirement for each and shows a prompt if you select the legacy option, so match the choice to the version of Cesium your client actually runs and confirm it against that prompt.
3. Choose the save location and confirm. The output directory contains a tileset.json entry file and several .glb tile files. Deploy the whole directory to Cesium to load it.

Convert between formats

LCC Studio includes a Converter for batch format work. It converts between 3DGS formats, including batch conversion to LCC2, and outputs to the third-party ecosystem formats 3D Tiles and USD. Use it when a finished library needs to move to a new delivery format in bulk rather than one model at a time.

Creator Data

After reconstruction completes, LCC Studio gives you access to the underlying capture assets alongside the finished model. This is available at no additional cost and covers data captured with the L2 Pro, K2, and PortalCam.

Creator Data is what downstream simulation, photogrammetry, and machine learning pipelines need, and it is not something the finished 3DGS model alone can supply. If you are delivering into NVIDIA Omniverse or Isaac Sim, training a model, or handing a dataset to a research or robotics team, this is the payload they will ask for.

Publish and Share a Web Link

Publishing uploads the model to XGRIDS cloud hosting and returns a link that opens in any modern browser with no install. It is the fastest way to put a finished model in front of a client, and it does not replace local export, since the model is still retained locally.

Access control

1. Open File, then Publish, or use the quick-publish button on the model card in My Models.
2. Choose Password-Free or Encrypted and add a description with context such as address, project name, and scan date.
3. Click Create to generate the link, then Share to copy the link and password.

To open a published model yourself, use View Online from the model card menu. Reopen Publish Management from the same menu for secondary changes: edit the URL suffix, switch between Password-Free and Encrypted, change the password, update the description, or list and delist the link without deleting the local file.