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NavVis

Walk-through, handheld and wearable mobile laser scanners that capture point clouds and panoramas

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Deployments: 4
Companies that ran it

How it works on your site

NavVis makes human-carried SLAM laser scanners, the wearable VLX 3 and VLX 4 and the handheld MLX and CLX, plus the IVION software platform that processes each capture and serves it in a web browser. On construction sites one operator wears the VLX and walks the site to build a registered point cloud with 360-degree panoramas, used for as-built capture and for marking and measuring deviations against an IFC model in IVION. The VLX 3 and the MLX (launched September 2024) are on sale; the VLX 4 (announced 14 September 2026, 3 mm native resolution on preliminary specs) and the CLX (announced 1 September 2026, no shipping date) have no field record yet.

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Field outcomes

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Wuttke Ingenieure GmbH scanned Rochsburg Castle in Lunzenau with a NavVis VLX over three weeks from early December 2021, covering about 20,000 sq ft on 7-8 levels, to plan a museum extension and renovation.

Rochsburg Castle

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KKE (Kozo Keikaku Engineering) scanned the earthquake-damaged Kumamoto Castle keeps with a NavVis VLX, capturing 10,800 square meters inside the keeps and around their outer circumference over two days to support restoration.

Kumamoto Castle (post-earthquake), Japan

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Gilbane Building Company's VDC team was using a NavVis VLX mobile laser scanner on major renovation projects in the Mid-Atlantic, including a historic 500,000 sq ft train station in Philadelphia and two large government buildings in Washington, DC.

Historic 500,000 SF train station, Philadelphia; two large government buildings, Washington DC, USA

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Rogers-O'Brien Construction used NavVis MLX and NavVis VLX 3 scanners above and below ceilings at Dell Children's Medical Center in Austin, Texas, comparing them with a Trimble X9; scanning time fell from multiple days to six hours.

Dell Children's Medical Center healthcare renovation, USA

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IBKS used a NavVis VLX in 2022 to scan leased areas of a two-tower medical complex in Los Angeles for a scan-to-BIM project, working after hours; the team was in and out of each tower in 10 days.

Medical complex, two 11-storey towers, USA

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Who has run it

17 deployments · 4 companies · 4 countries

Will it work on your site

Control interface: IVION in a web browser; IVION Go appBuilt-in screens on VLX 4 and MLX
BIM/CAD input: IFC2X3, IFC4x1, IFC4x2, IFC4x3 RC3Revit add-in; Autodesk Construction Cloud sync; partner plugins
IP rating, VLX 2: IP42Legacy second-generation VLX
IP rating, VLX 3: IP42Also stated for MLX and VLX 4

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