Sheet 1Normal here, rare elsewhereprices dated and sourced

Normal here. Rare elsewhere.

What you would expect every 3D program to do — and the things no other puts in one place.

  • Out of core
  • NVIDIA and AMD
  • First-party readers
  • Accuracy stated
W-1 · Specification · five clauses

Clause 01The machine you haveout of core · NVIDIA and AMD

Smooth on the machineyou already own.

Big data streams from disk a page at a time, so the file's size is bounded by your disk, not your memory. The renderer sizes itself to the graphics card it finds. It never refuses a file, and it never quietly lowers the quality to cope.

Billions of points, streamed from disk a page at a time — the largest file we have opened is not a limit.

Meshes of tens of millions of triangles, drawn as a cluster level-of-detail cook.

Through Vulkan; no CUDA anywhere, and two cards in one machine both work.

One quality ladder — Low, Medium, High, Ultra — sized to the card by itself: render.quality.auto.

Clause 02Opened as itselffirst-party readers

The file you were sent,without the program it came from.

First-party readers, so a CAD part, a city mesh or a laser scan opens directly — no converter, no trial licence of somebody else's software.

CADInventor, Parasolid, ACIS, RhinoAutodesk Inventor .ipt, Parasolid, ACIS, Rhino .3dm, STEP and IGES.
DrawingsDWG R13–R2018, DXFOpened, edited and saved in 2D drafting; a part's drawing goes out as DWG.
Esri I3SSLPK, read and writtenScene layer packages open in the scene — and the application makes its own from a mesh.
CitiesSkyline 3DML, 3D TilesWhole city meshes, streamed.
ScansE57, PTX, LAS, LAZ, COPC, FARO, Z+FOur own parallel E57 decoder, its output identical to the reference library's.
SplatsPLY, SOG, SPZTrained here or anywhere else, beside the cloud and the mesh of the same place.

Clause 03Against the markettheir public pages, read 30 Oct 2026

Where we stand,side by side.

Only what we have checked. Where a product's documentation does not mention a capability, we say so rather than guess.

WhatPluraFusionElsewhere
Gaussian splats on any cardNVIDIA and AMD, through VulkanPostshot: NVIDIA only (CUDA)
Stereo on a survey workstationBuilt into the renderer; free in the ViewerOnly the stereo-digitising niche — StereoCloud3D, DAT/EM
Desktop and browser editing togetherLive co-editing with presence and per-person undo — in LabsCintoo, Leica TruView, FARO Sphere XG, NavVis IVION: not documented
Survey deliverables, per seatGeo €1,490 a yearREGISTER 360 PLUS $5,100 a year · Cyclone 3DR $4,500 a year · PointCab 3D €4,900 perpetual
Photos to a twin, per seatCapture €590 a year — splats, dense clouds, meshes and scansRealityScan $1,250 a year above $1 M revenue · Postshot Studio €468 a year, splats
Capture, survey, CAD, BIM and presentationOne application, one scene, one undoUsually five programs and the exports between them

PluraFusion prices are draft. Competitor prices as listed on their sites on 30 Oct 2026; they change.

Clause 04Numbers you can hand on

It says how faryou can trust it.

Registration by least-squares adjustment with the reliability figures surveyors are taught and seldom shown. Every deliverable is badged with where its accuracy came from — stated, derived or assumed.

Linework traced on the cloud carries its residual and tolerance into the DXF.

A classifier you train in the application, checked against national classes on airborne lidar — and points it is unsure of stay unclassified.

From a scan to a checked IFC proposal in a few presses — a proposal you review, not a finished model.

Measurements in the browser agree with the desktop's own.

Clause 05Yours

Small things,done properly.

Activate once; a yearly or perpetual licence then works in the field with no countdown.

Every edit is an operation on the source, not a copy of it — undo goes all the way back, and your file is never touched.

The next job is one click: the data stays in memory and the camera stays where you left it.

The application renders its own films, on the graphics card you already have.

Sheet 7See for yourself30 days of Ultimate

See for yourself,on your own data.

Everyone in the beta gets 30 days of Ultimate. Run a test mission on your own files and keep it until launch.