Dot3D vs ReconstructMe

Dot3D is professional 3D capture and scanning software for digitizing complex environments on mobile devices. It supports large indoor and outdoor scene scans, loop closure, appending scenes, and annotations during capture. Scan refinement options include coded targets, survey control coordinates, distance constraints, wall-to-wall measurements, and planarity constraints. Dot3D Edit offers editing and processing without scanning, including cropping, measurement, annotation, and export. Supported platforms are iOS, Android, and Windows. Capture inputs include iPhone Pro and Pro Max models from 12 onward, iPad Pro from 2020 onward, Orbbec Gemini 336L, listed Intel RealSense cameras, DPI-10, and DPI-X. Prime supports Orbbec and RealSense depth cameras on Windows and Android; its real-time RTK/GNSS feature requires iOS. Exports include DP, E57, LAS, LAZ, PTS, PTX, PLY, PTG, RCS, and POD, with RCS and POD limited to Windows. The maker says captured data stays on the local device unless explicitly sent to DotProduct. The seven-day all-access trial reverts to Free mode without automatic charge, but Free mode has no exports. Dot3D is based in Norwood, Massachusetts, USA.

ReconstructMe is Windows software for real-time 3D scanning and reconstruction. Move a supported sensor around an object to digitize it, from a human face to an entire room. Scans use metric units and export to STL, OBJ, 3DS, or PLY. Color from the scanned object can be captured when the sensor supplies a color stream. Listed sensor families include ASUS Xtion, PrimeSense Carmine, and Microsoft Kinect, with Intel RealSense R200 and F200, Orbbec Astra and Astra L, and ASUS Xtion Pro and Xtio also supported. Its C-style SDK supports real-time and multi-sensor applications, OpenCL GPU scanning, mesh noise removal, hole closing, triangle reduction, and CSG operations. Marker detection and tracking can identify real-world positions or place a scan volume relative to a room marker. Unlicensed SDK output carries watermarks and mesh generation is delayed. A recent graphics card and driver are required for hardware-accelerated real-time computing. The non-commercial scanning application costs nothing.