Surveyors
Generate contours and TINs for topographic deliverables.
AI-powered vectorization
Turn Point Clouds intoCAD-Ready Vectors
Contours, breaklines, buildings, roads, trees, powerlines, water, bridges, rails and cadastral parcels — extracted from your LiDAR data automatically. No manual tracing, no parameter tuning.
No credit card required • DXF, SHP and GeoJSON export
Contours
Survey-grade lines
Survey-grade lines
Breaklines
Embankments & ditches
Embankments & ditches
Buildings
Footprint extraction
Footprint extraction
Roads
Surfaces & edges
Surfaces & edges
Trees
Tops & crowns
Tops & crowns
Powerlines
3D conductor lines
3D conductor lines
Poles & towers
Structure positions
Structure positions
Water
Bodies & shorelines
Bodies & shorelines
Bridges
Deck footprints
Deck footprints
Rails
Track polylines
Track polylines
Cadastre
Property boundaries
Property boundaries
Gridded DTM
Elevation grid for CAD
Elevation grid for CAD
What you can extract
Nine deliverables, one upload
Every feature type below comes out of the same point cloud, automatically, in formats your CAD and GIS tools already read.
Terrain
Contours & Gridded DTM
Generate survey-grade contour lines and gridded DTMs in one click.
Upload your point cloud, set your interval, and export contour lines or gridded DTM to DXF, SHP, or GeoJSON. No scripting, no parameter tuning.
- Contour lines in DXF, SHP, GeoJSON
- Gridded DTM with custom cell size
- Works with any aerial LiDAR data
Breaklines New
Breaklines, Without the Manual Tracing
Embankments, ditch sides, terraces and rim crests, detected automatically.
Tracing breaklines onto a hillshade is the slowest part of finishing a terrain model. Lidarvisor detects them from the DTM itself — no manual labelling — and delivers them at three cumulative density levels, so you decide how much detail your deliverable carries.
- Main — the longest, most prominent lines, for clean cartography
- Detailed — adds benches, terraces and field edges
- Exhaustive — every remaining detectable line, for QC
Buildings
Extract Building Footprints
Extract accurate building footprints automatically.
Automatically detect and outline buildings from LiDAR data. Even in dense urban environments, our AI identifies structures and applies intelligent orthogonalization for cleaner geometry.
- Works in dense urban areas
- Intelligent orthogonalization
- Export to DXF, SHP, GeoJSON
Roads
Road Surfaces & Edges
Vectorize the road network straight from the cloud.
Lidarvisor renders an overhead image from the point cloud, identifies road surfaces on it, and converts them into vector polygons and lines. Two modes tune the detector to the terrain you actually flew.
- Rural mode for country roads, forest tracks and unpaved surfaces
- Urban mode for paved streets and well-defined networks
- Road inventory, transport planning and access routing
Forest inventory
Tree Tops & Crown Detection
Map every tree with crown boundaries and height data.
Pinpoint each tree apex and accurately map canopy boundaries. Generate complete digital forest inventories with exportable CSV data and detailed PDF reports.
- Individual tree detection
- Crown diameter measurements
- CSV export with PDF reports
Powerlines
3D Powerline Vectorization
Vectorize conductors for vegetation management.
Extract accurate 3D vector lines for conductors automatically. Enable vegetation encroachment detection and clearance risk assessment without any manual input.
- Automatic conductor detection
- Poles and towers as their own layers
- Vegetation encroachment analysis
- Export to SHP and DXF
Hydrography Beta
Water Bodies & Shorelines
Trace the water boundary, and know which side of it you are on.
Lidarvisor finds water on the orthophoto and confirms it against the point cloud itself, then traces the boundary. Water fully inside your coverage comes back as a closed polygon; water that runs off the edge of the survey comes back as shoreline — two banks for a stream, one for a coast.
- Water body — closed polygons for lakes, ponds and reservoirs
- Shoreline — open lines where the water leaves your coverage
- Smoothed and simplified, ready to drop into a plan
Infrastructure & boundaries New
Bridges, Rails & Cadastral Parcels
The structures and boundaries a plan gets read against.
A bridge deck stops being a scatter of classified points and becomes a footprint you can draw. Railway tracks come out as polylines. And cadastral parcels are pulled straight from national open-data services onto the plan, so you no longer export boundaries from a separate tool and align them by hand in AutoCAD.
- Bridges — deck footprints as usable vectors
- Rails — railway tracks as polylines (beta)
- Cadastre — parcels from national open data, free and with no credit cost
Topographic maps
Boost Your Topographic Map Production
Get a head start with organized layers and raster backgrounds.
Skip hours of manual tracing. Lidarvisor exports organized DXF files with terrain, vegetation, and infrastructure layers, plus raster backgrounds for context. Open in any CAD software and refine as needed. Most of the work is already done.
- Organized layers ready for CAD
- Raster backgrounds for context
- Skip hours of manual tracing
The difference
Why AI-powered vectorization wins
Traditional tools
Require you to set dozens of parameters: tree detection thresholds, building minimum areas, contour smoothing factors. Get one wrong, re-run everything. Hours of trial and error.
Lidarvisor AI
Learns from thousands of point clouds. It adapts to your terrain automatically: flat or steep, urban or rural, dense canopy or open field. Clean vectors on the first try.
Who it's for
Built for your workflow
Forestry
Extract tree inventories with CSV export and PDF reports.
Urban Planners
Detect building footprints automatically.
Utility Companies
Vectorize powerlines for clearance analysis.
Customer stories
Trusted by survey professionals worldwide
The powerful classification is the best feature. It saves a lot of time and money compared to manual classification or expensive solutions.
Emilio SegoviaHead of Operations, PDM 4 Cero
We saved a lot of time classifying our point clouds. Not only classified data, but also DEM, DSM, DXF exports we could use directly in our analysis software.
Marcel AertssenSurvey Analyst, SkySense UAV Solutions
Excellent software. Processing is extremely fast and highly accurate. Exemplary DSM and DTM outputs.
Theoharis PapadiamantisSurveying Engineer, Geodimetro
Lidarvisor has transformed my LiDAR post-processing workflow. The speed of results is impressive, all the useful data is correlated, and what I find exceptional is the DXF export function.
Carolina CollaroArchitect | University of Jaén, Spain
We used to outsource our LiDAR processing. With Lidarvisor, we brought it in-house and cut our costs significantly while keeping full control over the workflow.
Bodie Lloyd KiroriManaging Director | Geolens Engineering, Papua New Guinea
We tested Lidarvisor and achieved excellent results using a single platform. Previously, we needed up to three different programs to get similar results, which took us far more time and effort.
Eduardo BonillaProject Manager | Topcom S.A. de C.V., El Salvador
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What vector formats can I export?
All vectorized features export in DXF (compatible with AutoCAD and other CAD software), SHP (for GIS workflows), and GeoJSON formats. Choose the format that fits your workflow.
What are breaklines, and why do they matter?
Breaklines mark the sharp changes in slope that contours alone miss: embankment tops and toes, ditch sides, terraces, rim crests and field edges. They are what makes a terrain model respect real terrain instead of smoothing across it, and they are normally traced by hand in CAD over a hillshade. Lidarvisor detects them from the terrain model directly and delivers three cumulative density levels, so you pick how much detail your deliverable needs.
What is the difference between a water body and a shoreline?
It depends on whether the water fits inside your survey. Water fully enclosed by your coverage is returned as a closed polygon (a water body). Water that runs off the edge of the coverage is returned as an open line instead: a stream gives you two banks, a coastline gives you one. Both are delivered in the same formats as every other vector layer.
How does the AI handle different terrain types?
Our deep learning models have been trained on thousands of diverse point clouds: flat terrain, steep slopes, urban areas, rural landscapes, dense forests, and open fields. The AI adapts automatically without any parameter adjustments from you.
Can I vectorize specific features only?
Yes. You can choose which features to extract: contours only, buildings only, trees only, or any combination. Each feature type exports as a separate layer for easy organization in your CAD/GIS software.
What about complex urban environments?
Our building detection includes intelligent orthogonalization that produces cleaner, more usable geometry even in dense urban areas with overlapping structures.
Is the tree inventory data exportable for analysis?
Yes. Tree detection exports include CSV data with coordinates, heights, and crown diameters, plus PDF reports for easy sharing with stakeholders.
Documentation
Learn the vectorization tools
Step-by-step guides for every feature type, in our documentation.
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