Cyclone - a brief description

Cyclone is a full featured software suite by Leica with separate modules for controlling scanners (works with all Leica models), registration of multiple scans, modeling, and much more. All work done on the scan data is performed with the point data in Leica's proprietary file format for points known as an .imp file.

RealWorks Survey

RealWorks Survey office software is Trimble's software suite with separate modules for registration of multiple scans sets, modeling, and many more survey friendly functions. I must admit that I know very little about the actual performance of the various modules but I am told that it is more intuitive than some software suites but I haven't been able to verify this yet. I plan to thought. One thing that did catch my attention was a patented feature in the data collection software which makes it is possible to acquire a specified point density on all surfaces no matter whether the surface is near or far. When I get a chance to see this feature for myself, I'll let you know if it can account for the incline and tilt of surfaces in the field of view. There is also a free viewer for the Trimble point cloud.