NUBIGON v7.3.0: A New Way to Combine Point Clouds and Architectural Visualization

Reality capture offers significant benefits across every stage of the building lifecycle.

From early planning to design development, construction coordination, and long-term maintenance, capturing existing conditions in 3D helps teams make better-informed decisions. When designs are anchored in reality, results improve.

And that’s more important than ever. As the global building stock ages and sustainability concerns grow, the ability to accurately and efficiently understand what’s already out there has never mattered more. Still, reality capture and design visualization remain largely disconnected.

Point Clouds: The Hidden Workhorse of AEC

Even as point clouds become central to internal AEC workflows, they rarely appear in promotional or client-facing materials. All too often, once a model is extracted from or validated by point clouds, those scans are archived, never to be seen again by stakeholders.

Why? Most architectural visualization platforms don’t support point clouds, and those that do often struggle with large datasets. As a result, scan data, despite the time, cost, and effort invested in capturing it, is rarely seen by clients, consultants, or project partners. This limits the visibility of reality capture’s full potential.

The NUBIGON v7.3.0 release aims to change that.

Bridging Design and Reality with NUBIGON

The latest version of NUBIGON introduces a powerful new workflow to combine point cloud visualizations and architectural renders in a cohesive presentation. Instead of choosing between showcasing the scanned reality and the proposed design, it achieves both clearly and seamlessly.

Specifically, our latest release features:

• Native import of Revit models

• Automatic alignment of Revit models with linked Recap point clouds

• Import of Enscape camera keyframes

This allows you to render your design in Enscape, visualize your scan in NUBIGON, and combine both outputs along the same camera path. The result is a hybrid visualization that tells the whole story: existing conditions + design intent, perfectly aligned and easy to understand.

How It Works: A Unified Visualization Pipeline

Here’s how the workflow plays out:

1. Capture existing conditions using laser scanning, photogrammetry, Gaussian splatting, or a combination of these methods

2. Model the project in Revit and use Enscape to define your camera path and render the proposed or as-built design

3. Visualize your scan in NUBIGON, importing the same camera keyframes for a consistent viewpoint

4. Combine both renders to display existing conditions and models from the same perspective

Real-World Applications

🎥 In a recent project by scan3D and Digital Twin GmbH, a hybrid capture approach, combining NavVis VLX, Leica RTC360, DJI drones, and Sony cameras, was used to document a complex historic church in Germany. The resulting point cloud and extracted model were rendered using NUBIGON and Enscape, respectively, offering a compelling narrative that merges real-world conditions with derivative models.

🎥 In another project, Excelsior Measuring Inc. scanned a warehouse to develop a reliable and accurate 3D model of its existing conditions. The showcase video below dynamically demonstrates the entire scan-to-BIM journey. By importing Enscape camera paths into NUBIGON, it was possible to produce a unified video communicating the scan and modeling quality, helping clients visualize the process confidently.

Why It Matters

Reality capture data is no longer confined to internal AEC workflows; it’s becoming essential to client-facing project communication.

This new workflow gives everyone involved, from architects to contractors to clients, a clearer picture of what’s possible, grounded in what’s real.

Whether you pitch a renovation, verify construction conditions, or present to stakeholders, the ability to show both scan and model, aligned, animated, and polished, creates an immediate impact.

Explore v.7.3.0 First Hand!

This is just the beginning. Our latest release opens the door to more integrated, informative, and visually compelling ways to work with reality capture data.