ASCII Laser Scan File Reader

Most scanner software support exporting the point data in an ASCII text file. Providing that the data is saved in the correct format, this data can be read by Autodesk Navisworks.

Supported formats for ASCII laser scan data are listed below. The data must be separated using one of the following characters: comma, tab or space. The character used to signify a decimal must be a point (period).

Intensity, Red, Green, and Blue values are integers in the range 0-255. Intensities are not gamma corrected.

Supported Entities

  • Points

Unsupported Entities

  • No other entities are supported.