3DGS
Scan to BIM cost: quoted in hours, billed on actuals, capped at the quote.
Every project is scoped in hours, billed on the hours the work actually takes, and never invoiced beyond the number we quote.
Prefer to test us first? Ask for a sample area at no cost.
What drives the cost
We do not publish a rate card.
A quote is driven by the work in the file, not by a published hourly or a square-foot multiplier. The items below are what we actually look at. None of them is a sample hour count.
- Deliverable mix
- Registration alone is a different job from LOD 500 MEP in your families. Combine services when the project needs them.
- LOD and density
- A 1000 sq. ft. warehouse can mean a lot of things. LOD requirements and the density of the site are driving factors.
- Area, scan count, and condition
- How much there is to model, and whether the cloud is clean enough to model from. Gaps, registration errors, and missing control get flagged and called out from the get go.
- Your template and families
- Working in your library is the point. A dense custom library takes longer than a starter set. We would rather know that before we quote.
- Review and revisions
- Client sign-off sits inside the cap. We do not treat that as a change order after the fact.
How you're billed
What you are buying, and what you are not.
Typical third-party quoting
Per square foot
- ×Arbitrary $/sq. ft. that inflates open spans and underprices the awkward bits.
- ×A queue you cannot see, and a modeler who does not speak survey.
- ×Walls squared up, lean and settlement erased, then a change order when QA objects.
3DGS practice
Hours-capped
- +A scope of hours before you commit. If we finish under it, you pay less.
- +A hard cap. We do not invoice beyond the number we quoted.
- +Surveyor-led review. Revisions to reach client sign-off sit inside the cap.
Questions
Questions about cost.
What does a project cost?
It is quoted per project, driven by deliverables, LOD and area. Send us the scans and your spec and you will have a capped quote inside one to two business days. If anything is missing, we will ask on a call rather than pad the number.
We have been burned by an offshore shop before. Why would this be different?
Fair question. We are surveyors first and modelers second. We have been scanning for more than 16 years, starting with the first commercial laser scanning operation in India, back when almost nobody in the country knew what a point cloud was, and we still do field work today. So we read your scans the way you would: we know what the deliverable is for and how your client will use it. Registration issues, control problems and bad scans get flagged when your files arrive, not after we've modeled against them. And you don't have to take our word for it: we'll model a small area of one scan at no cost.
Send us the scans. We will tell you what it takes.
Tell us what you have got and what your client is expecting. You get back a scope of hours, a cap and a calendar. If the scans have problems, we will tell you that too, before you have paid us anything.
Prefer to test us first? Ask for a sample area at no cost.