Creaform.OS vs Polyga PointKit

Creaform.OS is integrated operating software supplied with Creaform 3D measuring and scanning devices. It supports Creaform scanners, optical CMMs, and probe or photogrammetry workflows, with real-time capture, mesh reconstruction, and exports to IGES, STEP, and DXF on Windows 11. Its interface, embedded content, tools, and tutorials are intended to help users learn scanners and optical CMMs. The Metrology Suite adds Scan-to-CAD, Inspection, Automation, and Dynamic Tracking modules. Scan-to-CAD extracts features and supports CAD modeling from scan data for product development, reverse engineering, and additive manufacturing. Inspection handles dimensional quality checks. Automation provides a digital-twin environment for automated measurement and quality control. Dynamic Tracking measures multiple objects’ positions and orientations over time for assembly monitoring and robot calibration. Creaform.OS Viewer is a free download for viewing meshes, inspection programs, and results. The main software is paid with pricing on request.

Polyga PointKit is a toolset for processing, scanning, analyzing, and sharing 3D point-cloud and mesh data. PointKit Scan runs on Windows and prepares scan data by importing, aligning, cleaning, decimating, remeshing, inspecting, and exporting it. Alignment works on two or more selected meshes when their captured areas overlap sufficiently. After alignment, a finalization tool can combine scans into one mesh and apply additional processing. A lasso tool selects and deletes mesh sections. Supported capture sources include desktop and laser scanners, 3D cameras, photogrammetry, LiDAR, and other 3D devices. Exports include PLY, STL, OBJ, PBN, ASC, E57, LAS, and LAZ. PointKit Scan includes controls for connecting scanners and sharing data with PointKit View. The offering also lists a cross-platform web viewer, SDK, API access, mesh reconstruction, point-cloud tools, and real-time capture. PointKit is freemium, with a free plan and trial. Premium costs $99 a month for one active license and includes XTract3D 2 and PointKit.