Version 2.8.3  ·  Windows 10 / 11  ·  64-bit

CAD that works directly on the point cloud

Load a laser-scanned LAS survey and draw real geometry over it — in VR at true scale, or on the desktop. Build surfaces, contours, profiles and volumes, then export DXF, LandXML, meshes, reports and georeferenced orthophotos.

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  • Free 30-day trial
  • No account required
  • Offline licensing
  • 500M+points streamed out-of-core
  • 90 Hzper eye in VR
  • LAS 1.0–1.4PDRF 0–10, read & write
  • Vulkan 1.3+ OpenXR, natively
Capabilities

Everything between the scan
and the deliverable

VRCAD is a native C++20 application built on OpenXR and Vulkan — no web technologies, no cloud round-trip. The whole pipeline runs on your machine.

Clouds larger than memory

A Potree-style out-of-core LOD octree streams surveys far bigger than VRAM. Conversion from LAS is lossless and verified point-for-point — millimetre precision holds across multi-kilometre georeferenced extents.

Native VR at true scale

An OpenXR stereo session renders the survey at 1:1 so you can walk the site and draw where you stand. The VR session runs its own Vulkan device and shares one project with the desktop view.

Drawing & snapping

Lines, polylines and shapes drawn with real snapping against the cloud and against your own geometry. Work planes, sections, layers and guides keep long survey jobs organised.

Edit the cloud itself

Crop boxes, crop polygons and section slabs isolate what matters. Assign and filter by classification, delete noise, and step back through it all with full undo and redo.

Surfaces & quantities

Build surfaces, generate contours and profiles, and compute cut and fill volumes — with a convergence check at twice the grid spacing so a number you report is a number you can defend.

Exports & interchange

DXF, LandXML, meshes, reports and streaming tiled BigTIFF orthophotos that are never memory-bound. A live COM link drives a running AutoCAD session directly from VRCAD.

Rendering that reads as shape

Eye-Dome Lighting, SSAO, normal shading and a Sobel depth-edge outline — plus round sprites, soft splats and 3D octahedrons — turn an untextured cloud into geometry you can actually read.

LAS, natively

A dependency-free LAS 1.0–1.4 reader and writer covering point data record formats 0–10, with streaming I/O. Command-line tools convert, inspect and generate datasets outside the GUI.

No headset? Still works

A simulated OpenXR runtime runs the entire VR session — menus, radials, interaction — on the desktop with no hardware attached. Review VR work from any machine.

In the viewport

Isolate, classify, measure — without leaving the scan

Section slabs and crop polygons cut straight into the cloud so you can work on one structure at a time. Selections carry across to classification, editing and export, and every destructive step is undoable.

  • Crop box, crop polygon and plane slabs
  • Class-driven selection and visibility
  • Work planes matched to any section
  • Layer-aware selection overlay
VRCAD selection overlay highlighting selected points in cyan over a work plane grid
Selection overlay
Drawing a crop polygon in the VRCAD viewport to hide points outside the boundary
Crop polygon
Inside the software

Real surveys, real screens

Not mock-ups — these are working sessions on live project data. Click any of them to see it full size.

A textured 3D model of a colonial baroque church turning slowly through a full rotation
Captured, textured, turned A colonial baroque church reconstructed as a textured model and rotated through 360° — the kind of heritage record VRCAD is built to draw measured geometry over.
565 million points, in one session A whole quarry site loaded from a single LAS and coloured by classification — ground separated from everything else, streamed out of an octree rather than held in memory.
Scan to floor plan A section slab cut at 7.55 m through a 103-million-point building scan, with the walls traced into layered CAD linework ready to leave as DXF.
Surfaces, contours and volumes Surfaces built straight onto the scanned excavation, contoured at 0.5 m with elevation labels, and differenced against a design surface to give a cut and fill figure.
Stockpile volumes indoors A covered stockpile isolated from the surrounding structure by classification, then capped with a surface so the volume comes off the scan itself rather than an estimate.
Portfolio

Built with VRCAD

The same pipeline — scan in, geometry over it, deliverable out — applied across surveying, infrastructure and heritage work.

Earthworks

Dam embankment volumes

Surfaces built from a scanned embankment, differenced against design to give cut and fill quantities with a convergence check on the reported figure.

  • Surfaces
  • Cut / fill
  • Report
Survey

Topographic mapping

Ground classified out of a raw aerial scan, contours generated at fixed intervals, and the whole sheet delivered as DXF alongside a georeferenced orthophoto.

  • Classification
  • Contours
  • DXF
Infrastructure

Bridge as-built check

Section slabs taken through each pier, geometry drawn against the scan in VR at true scale, and deviations from the design model measured directly in the cloud.

  • Sections
  • VR review
  • LandXML
Infrastructure

Tunnel profile extraction

Profiles pulled at regular chainage along a bored tunnel, with overbreak and underbreak read off the surface and exported straight into the client's CAD package.

  • Profiles
  • Surfaces
  • AutoCAD link
Heritage

Façade documentation

A dense terrestrial scan traced into 2D elevation linework on work planes matched to each façade, then issued as measured drawings.

  • Work planes
  • Linework
  • Ortho
Survey

Industrial plant capture

A congested plant scan reviewed at true scale in the headset, where clashes and clearances are obvious in a way they never are on a flat screen.

  • VR at 1:1
  • Clearances
  • Mesh export

Working on something VRCAD should handle? Tell us about it — we're interested in hard datasets.

Download

Install VRCAD

A per-user install — no administrator rights required. Everything works for 30 days; after that the application keeps running and only exports are gated.

VRCAD for Windows

Version 2.8.3  ·  64-bit installer  ·  12.6 MB

Download VRCAD-Setup-2.8.3-x64.exe
SHA-256 1d65b577c704f3f70765db10474191138ac10f27ff028106fe0ee5afb9545c29

Windows SmartScreen will warn you the first time you run this installer — it is not yet code-signed. Choose More info › Run anyway, and check the SHA-256 above against the file you downloaded if you want to be certain it is intact.

System requirements

  • OSWindows 10 or 11, 64-bit
  • GPUVulkan-capable, current drivers
  • VROpenXR headset + SteamVR (optional)
  • InstallPer-user, %LocalAppData%

VRCAD renders with Vulkan, so Windows Mixed Reality headsets must run through SteamVR's OpenXR runtime. The desktop application does not need a headset at all.

What's in the box

The application, its runtime libraries, and the full 14-chapter user manual — reachable from Help > User manual.

Trial & licensing

A 30-day trial with every feature unlocked. Licences are Ed25519-signed, node-locked and issued offline — nothing phones home.

Perpetual, with maintenance

A licence runs forever on the versions it paid for. The maintenance window controls which future builds it covers.

Contact

Talk to us

Questions about licensing, a dataset you want to test, or a workflow you need supported — write to us directly and a person will answer.

edcofu.vrcad@gmail.com We reply to every message
  • Licence purchase & renewal
  • Evaluation on your own survey data
  • Feature requests and bug reports

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