LiDAR scans

Using your LiDAR scanner on your iOS device opens up new ways to quickly scan 3D environments and objects with precision. There are several scanning apps available that have their strengths.

Our favorite apps to create and export lidar models are Scaniverse, and Polycam. Both are free to export models to GLB that can be loaded to Arkio. After you made your 3D scenes you can bring models to Arkio from the iPhone or iPad by exporting them to the following path on your device.

My iphone/Arkio/Arkio/Import/Models

You can also upload your scanned files to the Arkio Cloud portal to share your models directly to multiple devices.

Please note that most 3D scanning apps use a default name for exports. You can best correctly name your files before you import the models to Arkio to make it easier to work with multiple scanned files.

You can select Share>Export to GLB, gltf or OBJ models and put the scanned files in your Arkio/Import/Models folder or upload to the Arkio cloud. After this you can start Arkio and load the model into your scene and share it with other devices using an Arkio meeting. You can learn more about loading and placement options from our other import/export pages