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Point cloud processing in your browser — results, not just points

A laser scanner or drone gives you millions of points. 4CAD PointLab turns them into what you actually need: trees with measurements, vegetation encroaching on power lines, building structures and equipment, or a 3D model from drone photos. No installation, processing in the cloud in the EU.

Free for everyone until 30 November 2026 — a trial period before the official launch.

LAS, LAZ, E57, PLY
200M points per project
Export to CAD, GIS and BIM
Data and processing in the EU
Rozbor lesa z mračna bodů – jednotlivé stromy oddělené barvami nad modelem terénu

Forest analysis: the point cloud becomes terrain, vegetation layers and individual trees with measurements.

The problem

A point cloud is only the beginning. Your client doesn't want millions of points — they want a list of trees with measurements, the spots where vegetation threatens a power line, a machine layout plan or a 3D model of a house. Tracing it by hand in CAD takes days of work and a powerful computer.

The solution

4CAD PointLab calculates the results automatically — in your browser, with no installation and no powerful computer.

  • upload a point cloud from any scanner, or drone photos;
  • the analysis runs in the cloud — you can close the page and the results will wait for you;
  • review the results in 3D and on a map, and the app remembers your corrections;
  • export straight to CAD, GIS and BIM tools.

It learns from your corrections: label a few examples and the system finds them elsewhere too — in this project and in your company's other projects.

Four fields in one app

Every plan includes all four modules. The plan only sets the storage size and the number of users.

Inventarizace lesa – mapa porostů s korunami stromů na ortofotu

Forest inventory

Terrain, vegetation layers and every tree with its position, height, diameter at breast height (DBH), crown and volume. Per-hectare summary, downed wood, a stand map on an orthophoto and terrain contour lines for CAD.

More on forest inventory →
Koridory a mapování – elektrické vedení se stožáry a vegetací v mračnu bodů

Corridors and mapping

Power lines: conductors and towers, spans with sag, vegetation encroachment and the protection zone. Railway tracks, roads with slopes and vertical clearances, street furniture inventory and large areas processed in tiles.

More on corridors and mapping →
Budovy a interiéry – boxy strojů s hlídáním odstupů v mračnu bodů haly

Buildings and interiors

Floors, walls, ceilings, columns, doors, windows, furniture and machines. Machine boxes with clearance and collision checks — move a machine together with its points and see right away whether it fits. IFC models and export of the classified point cloud by class.

More on buildings and scan to BIM →
Fotogrammetrie – texturovaný 3D model areálu z fotek z dronu

Drone photogrammetry

Your flight photos become a textured 3D model, a colour point cloud, an orthophoto and surface and terrain models — including an accuracy report. You can then classify the photo-based point cloud in the other modules.

More on drone photogrammetry →

Who PointLab is for

Land surveyors

Classification, measurement, contour lines and exports to CAD and GIS — including S-JTSK.

Foresters and tree managers

Tree inventory, volume per hectare, downed wood and a stand map.

Utilities

Vegetation encroachment on power lines, protection zones and tree fall risk.

Railway and road authorities

Clearance gauges, catenary masts, road slopes and vertical clearances.

Designers, BIM and manufacturing

Building structures and equipment, machine layouts and IFC models in the point cloud.

Cities and municipalities

Inventory of streets, street lights, signs, street furniture and urban trees.

No scanner? We'll scan it for you

We offer 3D scanning services in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Austria and Germany. We come on site, capture the data you need and use PointLab to prepare the output you need — a classified point cloud, a floor plan, a forest inventory, a power line inventory or a drone model. No need to buy a scanner or software.

Czech Republic

Nationwide, full service including the output.

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Slovakia

All of Slovakia, communication in Slovak or Czech.

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Poland

Projects in Poland, communication in English or German.

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Austria

Projects in Austria, communication in German or English.

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Germany

Projects in Germany, communication in German or English.

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How point cloud processing works

1

Upload your data

LAS, LAZ, E57 or PLY point clouds up to 20 GB, or drone photos (JPG, PNG, TIFF). Interrupted uploads resume.

2

Run the analysis

Classification and analysis run in the cloud. You can close the page — the results will wait for you.

3

Review and download

Review the results in 3D and on a map, measure them (including the area of a curved facade without windows and doors), fix them with the brush or eraser and download the exports.

Exports to your software

LAZ and E57 by class, DXF, GeoJSON, CSV with coordinates, GPX, GeoTIFF, GLB and OBJ — straight into CAD, GIS and BIM tools. Works with any coordinate system including S-JTSK, in metric or imperial units.

Accuracy measured on public data

The figures below are test results on publicly available reference data, not estimates. On your data, results vary with the scan type and point density.

Forest

  • 77–100% of trees detected on six reference plots, depending on stand type
  • 92–98% crown agreement with a hand-labelled reference
  • 3–16 cm terrain model accuracy (RMSE)

FOR-instance dataset — six drone laser scanning plots (Czech Republic, Norway, New Zealand, Australia, Austria). Terrestrial and mobile scans give the most accurate diameters.

Corridors and cities

  • 89–99.7% correctly classified conductor points on 380/150 kV power lines
  • 84% building agreement with the reference in a city centre
  • 92–96% terrain agreement with the reference

AHN4 dataset — airborne laser scanning of the Netherlands with official classification.

Buildings and photogrammetry

  • 82% of building points classified correctly without a single manual label
  • 2 cm deviation over a 10 m house length with ground control points
  • 2.7 cm/px ground resolution from 77 photos

3DSES Gold dataset (seven terrestrial scans of a building, the model always excluding the tested scan) and OpenDroneMap Aukerman. With manual examples, accuracy increases further.

Pricing: you pay for data volume, not features

PointLab is free for all users until 30 November 2026 — a trial period before the official launch. The plans below apply from 1 December 2026.

All plans include all four modules. The plan sets the storage for uploaded data and the number of users; additional users can be purchased.

Trial
2 GB
1 user
Start
10 GB
1 user
Profi
50 GB
3 users
Business
250 GB
10 users
Enterprise
1,000 GB
50 users

Pricing based on your data volume

As a guide: 1 GB of LAZ corresponds to roughly 25–40 million points, a 20-minute handheld scan takes 0.5–1.5 GB and a drone scan of one hectare of forest 0.2–0.5 GB. Tell us what data you work with and we'll prepare a quote.

Try PointLab on your own data

Create your account and upload your own point cloud or drone photos. Want to go through the results with us? Book a demo.

Lukáš Tisoň · 3D scanner sales · +420 735 084 982 · lukas.tison@4-cad.cz

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