Calculate Flooring Material From a LiDAR or 3D Scan

Phone LiDAR scanners, photogrammetry apps and laser scanners can capture a room in minutes — the hard part is turning that point cloud into a material list. Autolay imports the scan and does the take-off for you.

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Point cloud → room boundary → material fillSCAN

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From point cloud to material list

A 3D scan — from a phone's LiDAR app, Matterport, or a handheld laser scanner — produces a mesh or point cloud of the room, not a clean 2D floor plan. A tape measure and a hand sketch don't scale well for irregular or as-built rooms with bay windows, angled walls, or existing furniture in the way.

Autolay's three.js-based viewer loads the scan directly, lets you trace the floor boundary against the actually captured geometry, and feeds that boundary into the same layout engine used for hand-drawn or BIM rooms — so oddly shaped or as-built spaces get an accurate material count without a full manual re-measurement. This is especially useful for renovation jobs where no BIM model exists and the scan is the only reliable record of the room.

Where a 3D scan beats a tape measure

Irregular rooms (bay windows, angled walls, alcoves) — the boundary comes from the actually captured surface, not an approximated sketch
Existing buildings with no BIM model — the scan is the only accurate record
Multi-room scans — walk through once, get boundaries and material lists for every room in the same file

Supported scan formats: glTF/GLB, OBJ, and PLY point clouds — export directly from most LiDAR scanning apps.

Take-off without re-measuring

No other flooring calculator in this space reads 3D scans directly. For anyone already working with LiDAR or photogrammetry, this cuts out the detour through manual measurement and CAD re-tracing entirely.

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