LCC Studio
Lixel CyberColor turns scan data into photorealistic 3D environments anyone can walk through in a browser. Basic is free. Premium adds multi-segment work and open export formats.
What LCC Studio Is For
LCC Studio processes raw scan data into 3D Gaussian Splat models. The output is a photorealistic, navigable environment that a client can explore in a web browser without installing anything. It is the visual counterpart to LixelStudio, which produces measured point clouds from the same captures.
All three current scanners feed it. The L2 Pro and K2 send the same raw capture to both applications, so one site visit produces both a measurement deliverable and a walkthrough. The PortalCam works with LCC Studio only.
What LCC Studio is not is a measurement tool. The Gaussian ellipsoids represent appearance rather than precise surface positions, and the built-in measurement readout is approximate. Anything a client will build or bill against belongs in a point cloud.
Basic and Premium
One installer, two tiers. Basic requires only a registered XGRIDS account and costs nothing. Premium is an annual subscription, included for one year with the PortalCam Premium package and sold separately otherwise.
Basic
Free with account registration
A complete single-session workflow, from reconstruction through to a shared web link.
- Single Model reconstruction
- Full viewer: first-person, Avatar, Collision, Portal
- Clip, crop, and annotate
- Asset overlay for .fbx, .glb, and .obj
- One-click web publishing with cloud access management
- Camera path recording and flythrough video export
- Export to LCC and LCC2
Premium
Annual subscription
Everything in Basic, plus the multi-segment and aerial capabilities and the open export formats.
- Map Fusion, for combining multiple scan segments
- Aerial-Ground Map Fusion, for merging drone imagery with ground scans
- Aerial Reconstruction
- HD Enhancement, for supplementary photo detail
- Spatial Recognition, for floor plan extraction
- Export to PLY, USD, and 3D Tiles
There is no dataset size limit tied to the tier. Basic is not capped at a smaller scan or a simpler project. Premium is required for two reasons only: when a capture spans more than one session, because Map Fusion is the only way to combine segments, and when the deliverable has to leave the XGRIDS ecosystem as a PLY, USD, or 3D Tiles file. A single-session capture delivered as a web link or an LCC2 file needs no subscription.
What each Premium feature actually does
From Capture to Delivered Link
The sequence is the same on every device. What changes is which reconstruction type you pick at the start.
Choosing an Export Format
Ask the client what software they use before you scan, because a few of these carry a minimum host application version and will not load in an older release.
The LCC export is a multi-file folder, not a single self-contained file. Moving the .lcc pointer without its companion files produces a key file missing error at the far end. Send the whole folder.
What Your Workstation Needs
LCC Studio is Windows only and requires an NVIDIA GPU. It does not run on macOS, Linux, Windows Server, or a virtual machine.
Memory and Scan Length
Reconstruction memory climbs with capture duration at roughly 2 GB per minute. 64 GB handles about 30 minutes of capture data reliably, with a real risk of failure past 45. 128 GB handles about 60 minutes reliably, with risk past 90.
LCC Studio imposes no time limit of its own. There is no timer and no duration-based rejection, so the software will accept a scan larger than the machine can finish. What it does do is estimate memory demand before the run and show you the result, and a red Estimated Memory reading means the scan is too large for that workstation. That is the moment to split the capture, drop Reconstruction Quality to Standard, or add memory. Commit past a red estimate and the run exhausts system memory and fails, with nothing recoverable.
Separately, each scanner stops recording at its own firmware ceiling: 90 minutes on the L2 Pro and K2, 60 minutes on the PortalCam. Those are hard limits that more memory does not move, and they are unrelated to the battery figures that happen to share their numbers.
XGRIDS recommends against capturing a full-length dataset in one session on any hardware. A single fault inside a long capture, whether SLAM drift, environmental interference, or a battery problem, makes the whole dataset difficult to recover and may force a complete rescan. Reconstruction also runs at roughly 20 minutes of processing per minute of capture, so a 45-minute scene is most of a day of compute before you learn whether it worked. Alpine plans production work at 12 to 15 minutes per segment and stitches with Map Fusion.
XGRIDS publishes no laptop-specific configuration, and the guidance is to use a desktop for large datasets because laptops thermal-throttle under sustained load and can crash mid-reconstruction. A laptop meeting the minimum figures above will process short scans.