PCS Studio — Point Cloud to Steel & Pipe Model
PCS Studio — point cloud to 3D model
PCS Studio finds piping, structural steel, cable trays and ducting in your scan by itself. It reads the point cloud, recognises the diameter or the profile, places the part at a real catalogue size, and hands you a model — as DWG, STEP, IFC or PCF, or straight into Revit and Plant 3D. A complete Windows program: no AutoCAD, no CAD licence needed. Now in beta, with early access open.
What it models
Pipework and fittings
Cylinder fitting for straight runs, plus bends, segmented bends, tees and reducers. Snap to a pipe library (ASME B36.10M, EN 10220, Spiro) and a fitting standard (ASME B16.9, EN 10253), so diameters and bend radii come out as real catalogue sizes.
Flanges and valves
Weld-neck, slip-on, lap-joint and blind flanges, and gate, globe, ball, check, plug and butterfly valves — placed on the pipe at the right size from the ASME or EN library.
Automatic steel extraction
Point at a member, or let Studio sweep the whole scan on its own. It measures the cross-section, matches it against the profile library (HEA, HEB, IPE, UNP, angles, tubes, hollow sections) and places it at the right size and angle.
Cable trays and ducting
Cable trays and ducts are modelled from the scan the same way: measured and placed at their real size, ready for export.
Adaptive detection engine
No trained model, no black box. Studio measures the surface thickness and point spacing of your scan at every click and sets its own tolerances from that. A dense indoor scan and a coarse outdoor one both work, with no settings to tune.
Levels, Smart Connect, split and join
Set named levels at your storey heights and extend members to them. Trim beams to the column face, run them through to the intersection, split a member in two or merge two into one.
Hand it over
DWG, STEP, IFC and PCF
DWG with lines or solids, STEP for the fabricator, IFC for BIM, PCF for piping isometrics. Sizes are never changed on export: a part that cannot be an exact catalogue size becomes a shape, not a different size.
Revit 2025–2027
The PCS Studio plugin for Revit reads piping, steel, cable tray and duct exports and builds native Revit pipes, fittings, framing, trays and ducts. Revit is optional — Studio works without it.
Plant 3D 2025–2027
The PCS Studio plugin for AutoCAD Plant 3D places real Plant parts from your own pipe spec: pipes, elbows, tees, flanges and valves, connected. You choose the spec per library; what the spec does not have stays a PCS shape.
Know before you export
The part lists show per item whether it becomes a native Revit or Plant 3D part, and why not if it doesn't. Reads LAS, LAZ, E57, PTS, XYZ, ASC and RCP/RCS. Interface in English, Dutch and German.
What it saves you
Measured on our own reference scan — a steel structure with pipework:
| Method | Time | What you also need |
|---|---|---|
| By hand, no tools | Two to three days | AutoCAD or equivalent |
| With our AutoCAD plugins | Half a day to a day | AutoCAD subscription |
| With PCS Studio | About two hours | Nothing |
Times are from our own reference project and are an indication, not a guarantee — a cluttered scan with members hidden behind pipework will take longer. Ask us for early access and try it on your own data.
Pricing
€2,500 one-time, including one year of updates and support. After that, updates and support are about €375 per year. Early-access customers get launch pricing.
All prices in EUR, including VAT, and subject to change until release. One licence covers one computer. An AutoCAD subscription costs around €1,900 per year on its own — PCS Studio needs none.