Supported File Formats

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Reference Plans
• BIM (Building Information Model)
• Point Cloud
• Mesh
• 360° Photo (Camera Image and Video)
  • Insta360 One X2 and One RS (360 & 1-inch editions).*
• CPXSV
• Import File Format Support
• Export File Format Support

Here is the current list of file formats the CupixWorks web platform supports:

Reference Plans

• PDF (new upload or stored in CupixWorks)
• JPG*, PNG, or TIFF images
• Imported PDF linked to BIM 360 Docs

(* = Note that as of Jan. 2022, CupixWorks now supports large, high-resolution orthomosaic JPG images from drone captures.)

BIM (Building Information Model)

• RVT (Revit)
• NWD (Navisworks Documents)
  
• NWC (Navisworks Cache)
  
• IFC (Industry Foundation Classes)
• SKP (SketchUp)

Point Cloud

• E57 (ASTM vendor-neutral file format for storing point clouds, images, and metadata)
  
• LAS (LASer File Format from American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) 
• LAZ (lossless LiDAR compressed LAS File Format) 
• PLY (Polygon File Format or the Stanford Triangle Format) 
• PTS (Leica Single Scan File Format) 
• RCP (Autodesk ReCap Project File Format)* 
• RCS (Autodesk ReCap Scan File Format)* 
• XYZ (generic ASCII/ Binary point cloud File Format)

(* = Note that RCP and RCS are only supported by Cloud Connect for Windows. The Mac version does not support these file formats.)

Mesh

• OBJ (Geometry Definition File Format from Wavefront Technologies)
• GLTF (Graphics Language Transmission Format or GL Transmission Format)

360° Photo (Camera Image and Video)

• Insta360 One X2 and One RS (360 & 1-inch editions).*

  • INSP (photo) file titled IMG_"year, month, date"_"time stamp"_"sequence number"_"file number"
    • Example: IMG_20210928_104502_00_002.insp
  • INSV (video**) file titled VID_"year, month, date"_"time stamp"_"sequence number"_"file number"
    • Example: VID_20210815_024523_10_006.insv

        * = Note that the Insta360 LRV (Low-Resolution Video) file format is NOT SUPPORTED. It is a proxy helper file for editing in the Insta360 mobile app.

       ** = Also, note that Insta360 videos are created as matched pairs of files. This is indicated as _00_ and _10_ in the file name. Both of these files need to be uploaded for processing.

        IMPORTANT!!! Changing the INSP or INSV file names and/ or file extensions will render them unreadable. The original format must be kept intact by uploading to CupixWorks.

CPXSV

• CPXSV (Cupix Site View file format)

Import File Format Support

These are the types of files each Cupix application can import:

	Reference Plans	BIM	Point Cloud	Mesh	360° Photo	CPXSV
CupixWorks App	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Capture App
Connect App			✔		✔

Export File Format Support

These are the types of files each Cupix application can export:

	Reference Plans	BIM	Point Cloud	Mesh	360° Photo	CPXSV
CupixWorks App					✔
Capture App					✔	✔
Connect App					✔	✔