# Recap Reviews **Vendor:** Autodesk **Category:** [3D Modeling Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/3d-modeling) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 28 ## About Recap Use ReCap reality capture software to convert reality into a 3D model or 2D drawing that's ready for further design. ## Recap Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of Recap, finding it simple to edit and visualize information across programs. (1 reviews) - Users value the **editing ease** of Recap, finding it user-friendly and compatible with other programs. (1 reviews) - Users value the **integration support** of Recap, appreciating its seamless functionality with other programs for enhanced productivity. (1 reviews) - Users value the **visualization** capabilities of Recap, enhancing their understanding and workflow efficiency. (1 reviews) ## Recap Reviews ### 1. Great program for reviewing and editing point clouds **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris S. | Associate / Technology Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Recap?** The ease of use, visualization, ease of editing and it works in other programs. **What do you dislike about Recap?** There isn't much i dislike about this program **What problems is Recap solving and how is that benefiting you?** Recap imports seamlessy in to other programs with little slow down. ### 2. "RECAP"Scan to BIM process has significantly simplified our lives. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kishore K. | PROJECT ENGINEER , Commercial Real Estate, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2023 **What do you like best about Recap?** Recap serves primarily to transform photographs into point clouds, which can be effectively utilized in Building Information Modeling (BIM). This software proves highly advantageous to BIM engineers, significantly assisting in the process of 3D modeling within Revit. **What do you dislike about Recap?** One aspect that is unsatisfactory is the prolonged duration it takes for the software to convert a point cloud file into an .rcp file, which is subsequently utilized in Revit. **What problems is Recap solving and how is that benefiting you?** We utilize Recap for indexing and auditing purposes. Through the use of Recap, I am able to gain a comprehensive understanding of the point cloud data, enabling me to effortlessly identify any irregularities. The file conversion feature it offers is particularly remarkable. ### 3. Very useful for 3d scans **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marcus R. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Recap?** Makes it seem less to read 3d scans in a short time. **What do you dislike about Recap?** No issues with the software. Usually easy to function **What problems is Recap solving and how is that benefiting you?** Recap is easy to use and I can view 3d files from scans. ### 4. Very important software for Constructions field BIM Industry **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** NITESH P. | BIM Engineer-MEP, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Recap?** It is an extremely supportive programming for BIM engineers as it helps a ton in 3D demonstrating in revit. Recap is essentially utilized for changing over photographs to point mists which can be utilized for BIM. . **What do you dislike about Recap?** Nothing much dislikes in this software but some times i face an issue Connection point is whimsical. Point cloud handling can be slow. **What problems is Recap solving and how is that benefiting you?** Straightforward the genuine model of Working with complete administrations and Design. ### 5. Best software to work with point cloud **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Devendra S. | Assistant Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Recap?** Recap is the best software through which a point cloud model can be opened & help perfectly in visualisation. Through this visualisation we can convert our point cloud in 3d model with the help of modelling software. **What do you dislike about Recap?** The user interface of this software is a bit tricky to use. This software do not have many options to customise the feature that are being used on daily basis by us. **What problems is Recap solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using the recap to visualise the point cloud model shared by our clients & converting that model into a useful 3d model which can be used in facility management. ### 6. Recap is an essential software for BIM industry. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mustafa H. | BIM Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Recap?** Recap is mainly used for converting photos to point clouds which can be used for BIM. It is a very helpful software for BIM engineers as it helps a lot in 3D modelling in revit. **What do you dislike about Recap?** It uses a lot of RAM and hangs the PC which is a headache sometimes thats the only issue i face using Recap rest everything is perfect. **Recommendations to others considering Recap:** Recap is a must software in BIM industry also If you want to check and model more accurately then see the point clouds in Recap. **What problems is Recap solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being a BIM engineer we use Recap randomly for seing the point cloud clearly as the visibility of point cloud is much good in recap as compared to revit. ### 7. Simple point cloud utility **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Recap?** Easy to use tool for cleaning up point clouds before importing into other 3d modeling platforms. **What do you dislike about Recap?** Interface is unconventional. Point cloud processing can be slow. **What problems is Recap solving and how is that benefiting you?** Recap allows me to covert point cloud files from 3D scanners into formats that are usable in other software. ### 8. RECAP REVIEW **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Recap?** SMOOTH USER INTERFACE WITH EASILY UNDERSTANDABLE TOOLS **What do you dislike about Recap?** IF IT POSSIBLE THEY CAN ADD MORE TOOLS IN THE SOFTWARE DIMESNION RELATED AND SOME TIMES IT WONT SNAP TO PIPE DIA **Recommendations to others considering Recap:** BEST SOFTWARE FOR POINT CLOUD DATA VERIFICATION AND TO SEE IT **What problems is Recap solving and how is that benefiting you?** AS BUILT DATA VERIFICATION ### 9. I am currently working in Russell and Dawson LLC ahmedabad **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kalpesh S. | Mep modeler , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 25, 2020 **What do you like best about Recap?** Autodesk recap is one of the best software for Point cloud work. It is useful for modeling of Mep, Architecture and structure model by using reference file of Recap. We can trash model according the reference model with 100% Construction model. **What do you dislike about Recap?** Don't have more accuracy and time consuming sometime image clarity is not better **What problems is Recap solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to draw construction model with reference file. Easy to understand the real model of Building with complete services and Architecture. Don't need to do coordination we can trash pn reference model ### 10. Best indexing software for point clouds **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Recap?** The best thing which I like about this software is that it easily simplifies all the laser scans into number of point clouds so that we can easily use our point cloud for Revit. Through this software we can easily work on any type of point clouds. **What do you dislike about Recap?** One thing I don't like is that this software takes long time to convert any point cloud file into.rcp file i.e. reacp file which further cn be used in Revit. **What problems is Recap solving and how is that benefiting you?** I majorly use Revit so working with big point clouds revit gets slow but when i use that point cloud file in Recap, it helps me to work very faster on any kind of point clouds. I can easily cut any section in point clod file and can easily save it with another name. ### 11. BIM is incomplete without 'Recap'. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2019 **What do you like best about Recap?** Recap is mainly used in photogrammetry i.e. for converting the Building scan to a Point cloud model which can be used in Revit. It is very easy to use and is very essential software for BIM as it helps to know the on-site service condition. **What do you dislike about Recap?** The only dislike in Recap is its RAM usage, we have to index the point cloud in separate system because using it together with MEP modelling slow down the performance of system. **Recommendations to others considering Recap:** It is the best software for photogrammetry and indexing point clouds and also for navigating the model. The only thing you require is a system with higher configuration. Rest all is best. **What problems is Recap solving and how is that benefiting you?** The point cloud model indexed is very clearly visible in Recap , which means you can even see things which are not visible in Revit which helps me a lot in finding services which i am not able to see normally in revit. ### 12. Recap-ture reality **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Steve T. | Archaeological Supervisor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Recap?** Recap offers an intuitive visual interface with which to import and register pointclouds from a variety of 3D scanners. It offers a particularly simple method of producing shareable fly-throughs with which to showcase your 3D models. **What do you dislike about Recap?** The can be quite long import and registration times depending on the size of your pointcload data, which need to be factored in when considering processing your data. **What problems is Recap solving and how is that benefiting you?** Recap allows us to bring unregistered pointcloud data from scanners such as the BLK360 and process it ready to be exported in a variety of formats such as .pts. It is helpful if we need to use it on computers that don't have relatively expensive Cyclone licences. ### 13. Recap as a tool for Scan to BIM (point cloud) projects **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Recap?** Autodesk recap has a friendly user interface. It is very easy to navigate through point clouds. The point clouds are clearly visible as compared to when loaded in Revit. The point clouds are large in size but still recap gives a smooth experience. The point clouds come in various extensions such as .pts, .las, etc formats, these formats can be indexed using recap and can be converted into .rcp format very easily. This rcp file can be used in revit. **What do you dislike about Recap?** Recap uses a lot of ram in the computer which results in lag sometimes. **Recommendations to others considering Recap:** I would recommend this software to those who are working in the BIM (building information modelling) industry as it is very helpful in Scan to BIM projects. **What problems is Recap solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using recap to convert or index .pts and .las point cloud files to .rcp files which cam be used in revit. It is very smooth experience and takes reasonable time. ### 14. Best for Point cloud projects **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prabhanshu S. | BIM Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Recap?** One of the best thing about recap is its point cloud exporting feature. Recap also used for Indexing point cloud without creating any storage issue, which is one of my favorite thing in recap. Recap is also used for the creating the point cloud using geo- Geo - coordinates. **What do you dislike about Recap?** The only thing I dislike about Recap is when Load increases it get crashed. So it better to split the file so you will get better performance. **Recommendations to others considering Recap:** You can also use recap for Scan To BIM projects. **What problems is Recap solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Recap for Indexing and auditing purpose. From Recap I got cleared view about the Point cloud and can easily marked out the odd things. ### 15. Recap for Scan to BIM projects **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Recap?** Point cloud files come in various extensions such as - .pts, .las, etc. Recap helps to convert these files into .rcp extension files which can be integrated with Revit software. These point clouds can be used for modelling in Revit. The point clouds are very heavy imsize but with the help of Recap one can easily navigate. **What do you dislike about Recap?** The point cloud takes time to load but else everything is fine. It uses a lots of ram, hence, the computer lacks a little bit. **Recommendations to others considering Recap:** It is a good software for people working on scan to BIM projects. **What problems is Recap solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it for converting LAS and PTS files to RCP files so that I can use the point cloud in Revit for modelling. ### 16. Recap- Capture reality **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2020 **What do you like best about Recap?** The end result of the project, that you could stitch bunch of images and georeference them taken from a drone while working alongside recap photo. Work with point cloud files, filter data and allows you to make selections and work with want you want to.Also, could coordinate the other autodesk products which is very helpful **What do you dislike about Recap?** not much of a negative trait but having to wait while recap photo stitches your images. Also the limitation when working with more than 1000 aerial images. Working on large sites would have more than 1000 pictures **Recommendations to others considering Recap:** Better Software in the Market **What problems is Recap solving and how is that benefiting you?** Use recap end result and use the output with infra works ### 17. Autodesk ReCap **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aaron J. | BIM Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Recap?** Autodesk ReCap is an excellent program for working with point cloud data. It can register together point cloud files into a single file that can be used in other AutoCAD programs. You can also edit the point clouds to remove unnecessary data or isolate data for exports. It is very easy to use and does not take very long to learn. **What do you dislike about Recap?** It would be good if it could open different forms of files. We currently use a Trimble scanner and have to use the Trimble software for registration. It would be nice if we could use the ReCap program as well to register some of these files as well. **Recommendations to others considering Recap:** Give it a try. It has a lot of great additional functions and Autodesk is continuing to develop the program. **What problems is Recap solving and how is that benefiting you?** ReCap works great for cleaning up point cloud files. We use it for that purpose as well as exporting the file to an .RCS file to work in our Revit models. ### 18. GREAT CAD COMPANY **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Recap?** This system is completely responsive which makes using it so simple and easy in day to day work. it works perfectly to be able to open huge files on it and save them in to different formats. i recommend this to anyone. **What do you dislike about Recap?** the user interface is so so. kind of hard to get the hang of everything compared to other systems. after working with it for awhile i was able to understand how to use it. **Recommendations to others considering Recap:** Definately worth! makes things easier! worth a try need a little time learning but everything works out great! **What problems is Recap solving and how is that benefiting you?** My main issue was saving files different formats and Recap helped all the way! After you get the hang of Recap it works wonders and makes working a lot easier! everyone should use this system! this systems make it really easy working with 2d and 3d files. ### 19. Lacking some basic features, but works well for simple pointcloud edits **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Recap?** Recap works well with large point clouds and a lot of data. It does a good job of of allowing users to view and edit point clouds and then save them in a format for other uses. **What do you dislike about Recap?** I don’t necessarily like the user interface. It seems difficult for new users to pick up. Also many tools get hidden making things slower to use across the board. There are also some features lacking for registration and adjustment of loaded point clouds. **What problems is Recap solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using recap to load in captured point cloud data, adjust it and clean it up and then save it for use in Revit to create current conditions. ### 20. Autodesk can do so much better **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Recap?** I think Recap is headed in the right direction but is still in the beginning stages. For example, you can create a mesh out of a point cloud for only for a very small area- so it's basically useless. **What do you dislike about Recap?** We mainly use this product to convert .e57 files to .rcs files. **Recommendations to others considering Recap:** You must use another tool on conjunction. **What problems is Recap solving and how is that benefiting you?** By converting the file type, you are able to view the point cloud in Navisworks. ### 21. Easy to set up for response and data collection **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Animation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2019 **What do you like best about Recap?** Recap helped a company I was contracted out to scale up in terms of data collection. The best feature is the interface alongside it's use has a great array of tooling available and let's it's users know it's usability is a priority. **What do you dislike about Recap?** Their customer service isn't very helpful and won't distinctly reach out to you unless you have a core problem with the software, which is standard for applications of these nature but a disappointment nonetheless. **What problems is Recap solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scalability, the use of data collection with other 3rd party apps in the interim but with time.may have this functional ilty on it's own ### 22. Recap Review **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2018 **What do you like best about Recap?** Recap is exceedingly simple. This makes it very easy for virtually anyone to pickup, use and navigate and markup point clouds. **What do you dislike about Recap?** Recap is exceedingly simple! The amount of functionality and data processing compared to competitors is majorly lacking. I do not like using it. **What problems is Recap solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it as a go between other point cloud software and Revit. Unfortunately for us, Revit only accepts RCP files for point clouds. ### 23. great tool to use for as builts **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 10, 2018 **What do you like best about Recap?** I like the fact that they provide full quality as built images and walkthroughs. also like the fact that you could navigate easily and pretty easy to detect locations. **What do you dislike about Recap?** The one thing I dislike about the software is that they are lacking in terms of accuracy of dimensions. The software is to bring up existing areas and speculate the dimensions by the ruler feature. Everytime I try to dimension an object, it brings me a different dimension. **Recommendations to others considering Recap:** great program to use for as builts. somtimes little slow, and harder to dimension but still great quality **What problems is Recap solving and how is that benefiting you?** The firm is doing a huge project as builts and we cannot document all the areas without this product. We would possibly have to go and measure or photograph everything without this program. ### 24. Great for Registration **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Recap?** ReCap Pro is included in the aec collection so there is no additional cost. In addition it is the standard for point cloud registration. It offers integration to the other design applications autodesk sells. **What do you dislike about Recap?** There really isnt much to dislike about ReCap. The biggest things are external like mobile applications for viewing and the fact that they removed functionality from Civil 3D so you have to use ReCap. **What problems is Recap solving and how is that benefiting you?** Drone workflow ### 25. Satisfied **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Recap?** It gives access to storage and collaberation workspace and cloud services **What do you dislike about Recap?** 50 GB of A360 cloud storage Upload max of 50 photos **What problems is Recap solving and how is that benefiting you?** It creates intelligent 3D data from captured photos. It is secure, easy to use and robust ### 26. ReCap Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2019 **What do you like best about Recap?** The software is very light and user-friendly. **What do you dislike about Recap?** Some features are missed and I hope to be added soon. **What problems is Recap solving and how is that benefiting you?** 3D point cloud visualization in the AEC industry specially for the renovation projects, ### 27. Great product for any business **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Recap?** How easy it is to use and how user friendly. **What do you dislike about Recap?** Not as many options as I'd like to have with this product. **What problems is Recap solving and how is that benefiting you?** Educational business ### 28. Its ok... **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2018 **What do you like best about Recap?** The fact that its always linking your log in with revit and try to do live updates with your issues **What do you dislike about Recap?** I like the fact that they are trying to be helpful during usage of revit. Good intentions... **What problems is Recap solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have not had much problem solving with revit. 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