Point cloud conversion – what it is and why does it matter?

If you’ve ever opened a point cloud file and thought “that looks impressive… but now what?”, then you’re not alone. Laser scans are brilliant at capturing reality. They record buildings exactly as they are, down to tiny details. But the raw scan itself is just data – millions or even billions of individual points floating in 3D space. Point cloud conversion is what turns that data into something genuinely useful.