The gap between the physical world and the software where decisions are made has always been one of the most expensive problems in industrial operations.
Teams invest in scanning equipment, capture thousands of square metres of facilities, they spend weeks, or months, wrestling with file formats, data silos, and software compatibility before a single engineer can act on that data.
The result: faster decisions, fewer site visits, and as-built data that is actually usable, not just stored.
Close the gap with Prevu3D RealityPlatform Digital Twin, within platform, reality capture from any source (terrestrial LiDAR, SLAM scanners, drone mapping, and 360 video) and turns it into a living, connected 3D environment that lives where your teams work.
3 Reality Capture Pillars: Capture. Manage. Connect.
Every workflow in Prevu3D flows through three stages. They are simple by design because the underlying technology does the heavy lifting.
3D Scanning Capture — Any Source. Any Format.
The first step is uploading your scan data to RealityPlatform™. Prevu3D supports every major capture method in use today:
- Terrestrial LiDAR (BLK360, RTC360, P-series and more)
- SLAM point clouds (BLK2Go, BLK2GoPulse)
- Drone mapping
- 360 Video
Uploads are device-specific, the platform knows what it is receiving and processes accordingly, without requiring manual configuration. What you get on the other side is the fastest, most accurate meshing engine in the industry, producing visually rich 3D mesh models ready for analysis and collaboration.
3D Assets Management — One Source of Truth for Your Spatial Data
Once captured, your data lives in RealityPlatform™, a centralized hub that gives every stakeholder access to the same ground truth. Consider saving on emailing point cloud files. Forget version conflicts. No more “which scan is the latest one?”
Two tools make this possible:
RealityComposer combines scans from multiple sessions, devices, and locations into a single unified digital environment. TLS datasets, SLAM datasets, drone LiDAR, and 360 video can all be merged, aligned, and layer-masked into one coherent model—a true single digital twin of your facility.
RealityAssets adds an intelligent layer on top of that model. Assets can be isolated, identified, and tagged, with AI-powered magic wand selection accelerating what used to take hours. Every asset carries its properties, making your 3D environment not just a visual reference, but a queryable, actionable database of your physical infrastructure.
Connect 3D Data to Live Operations — Your As-Built World, Right Where You Work
This is where Prevu3D becomes a force multiplier. Through RealityConnect™, the as-built environment streams directly into the engineering, simulation, and design tools your teams already rely on. No exports, no conversions, no data degradation.
RealityConnect™ currently supports eight native connectors:
- Autodesk Revit: Stream data directly from RealityPlatform to Revit for BIM-level documentation, renovation planning, and clash detection against live as-built conditions.
- Autodesk Inventor: Bring accurate as-built spatial context directly into Inventor for mechanical design, equipment sizing, and fit checks against real facility conditions.
- AutoCAD Plant 3D: Reference as-built piping and structural geometry directly in Plant 3D, enabling faster retrofit design and more accurate P&ID reconciliation.
- Bentley MicroStation: Connect reality capture to MicroStation workflows for infrastructure, civil, and industrial projects that require precise as-built reference geometry.
- NVIDIA Omniverse: Push your 3D environment to Omniverse for real-time visualization, multi-user collaboration, and simulation at enterprise scale.
- PlantStream 3D: Integrate as-built data into PlantStream 3D for rapid plant design and brownfield project delivery grounded in real spatial conditions.
- Siemens Process Simulate: Real as-built geometry inside Process Simulate. Validate ergonomics, robot reach, and assembly processes against the world as it actually exists, not as it was designed.
- Siemens DesignCenter NX: Stream as-built geometry directly into NX, with automatic transfer of segmented assets and integrated JT file support. Your real-world environment becomes the spatial reference for every design decision.
The Prevu3D Digital Twin Ecosystem
Prevu3D sits at the centre of a growing ecosystem. On the left: every major reality capture modality feeding into RealityPlatform™. On the right: the enterprise software stack (CAD/BIM, simulation, ERP/AIM, and OPS/IoT) connected through RealityConnect™.
This is not a point solution. It is infrastructure for how industrial organizations manage their physical world.
Digital Twins for Industrial Digital Transformation
Prevu3D is purpose-built for the teams that own physical operations and need their spatial data to be actionable, not archived:
- Facility managers and plant engineers who need accurate as-built documentation without delays
- Manufacturing and process engineers planning layout changes, line reconfigurations, or equipment installations
- BIM coordinators and AECO professionals working on renovation, retrofit, or construction projects
- Digital twin leads integrating scan data into simulation and operations platforms
- IT and data teams responsible for spatial data governance across multiple sites
Why Reality Capture Is the Future Of Engineering Workflows
Reality capture hardware has gotten faster, cheaper, and more accurate. The bottleneck is no longer the scan, but what happens after. Data sits in proprietary formats. Engineers work from outdated PDFs. Decisions get made without spatial context.
Prevu3D eliminates that bottleneck. The platform is designed to collapse the distance between reality and decision, giving every team member, in every tool, access to a living, accurate model of the world they are working in.