One scan, six formats. Because different jobs need different files.
Here's the thing about room scans: the person who needs a printable floor plan for a contractor and the person who needs a 3D model for a Blender project are capturing the same room. They just need the data presented differently.
Most room scanning apps pick one format and make everyone use it. Need a PDF but the app only exports images? Screenshot and crop, I guess. Need an OBJ but the app only does floor plans? Time to find a second app and rescan.
ezSpace takes a different approach. Every scan captures the complete 3D geometry of the room, and from that single scan, you can export to six different formats. PDF for printing. SVG for vectors. USDZ for augmented reality. OBJ for 3D software. Reality for Apple AR development. JSON for raw data. Each format exists because a specific group of people genuinely needs it.
You don't need to decide in advance which format you'll want. Scan the room once, and every format is available to you immediately. Export as many or as few as you need. Change your mind later -- just reopen the scan and export again.
The PDF export produces a clean, measured floor plan that's ready to print, email, or attach to any document.
What you get: A bird's-eye floor plan diagram with wall measurements labeled on every segment. Clean lines, clear typography, professional appearance. It looks like a floor plan a drafter would produce, except it took 60 seconds instead of an afternoon.
Who it's for: Everyone. That's the beauty of PDF. Homeowners planning furniture layouts. Real estate agents adding floor plans to listings. Contractors receiving room dimensions for quotes. Property managers documenting spaces. Insurance adjusters recording room sizes. If someone needs to understand the dimensions and layout of a room, the PDF is the format that requires zero explanation.
When to use it: Whenever you need a room scan to be immediately understandable by anyone, regardless of their technical background. PDF is the universal document format -- everyone has a PDF viewer, everyone knows how to print one, and everyone can read a floor plan. When in doubt, export a PDF.
Workflow examples: Email a PDF to a contractor for a renovation quote. Print it and bring it furniture shopping. Attach it to a real estate listing. Drop it into a Google Doc or Word document. Pin it to a project management board. The PDF goes everywhere because PDFs go everywhere.
The SVG export creates a vector floor plan that stays perfectly sharp at any size, from a thumbnail to a billboard.
What you get: A Scalable Vector Graphics file containing the floor plan as mathematical paths and shapes rather than pixels. Zoom in 1000% and every line is still razor-sharp. Scale it to poster size and it prints perfectly. That's the fundamental advantage of vectors over rasters.
Who it's for: Architects, designers, and anyone who works with precision graphics. SVG files open in Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Designer, Figma, Sketch, Inkscape, and any SVG-compatible application. They can also be embedded directly in web pages and presentations.
When to use it: When you need to incorporate a room scan into professional design work. Presentations that need to look sharp on a projector. Print materials that will be reproduced at various sizes. Architectural documents where line quality matters. Any workflow where you'd normally reach for vector graphics over raster images.
The AutoCAD connection: SVG files can be converted to DXF format (the standard AutoCAD exchange format) using freely available conversion tools. If your workflow requires getting a room scan into AutoCAD or similar CAD software, the SVG export is your most direct path. Export the SVG, convert to DXF, and import into your CAD application with the vector geometry intact.
The USDZ export turns your room scan into an AR-ready 3D model that Apple devices can display in augmented reality natively.
What you get: A 3D model of your scanned room in Apple's Universal Scene Description (USD) format, packaged as a single USDZ file. Open it on any iPhone or iPad and the room appears as an AR object you can place on a surface, walk around, and examine from every angle. No special AR viewer app needed -- iOS handles USDZ files automatically.
Who it's for: Anyone who wants to visualize a room in 3D. Interior designers showing clients how a space works. Real estate agents offering virtual previews of properties. Homeowners planning renovations. AR enthusiasts exploring spatial computing. The USDZ format removes the barrier between "data about a room" and "experiencing a room."
When to use it: When a flat floor plan isn't enough and you want to see the room as a three-dimensional space. When you need to share a room with someone who can't visit in person. When you want to experiment with spatial arrangements visually rather than mathematically. USDZ brings the room scan to life in a way that 2D formats can't.
Workflow examples: AirDrop a USDZ file to a client's iPhone so they can explore a scanned space during a meeting. Text it to a partner so they can see the apartment you're considering. Share it in a group chat so everyone can weigh in on the room layout. The file is self-contained -- no internet connection or special software required to view it.
The OBJ export provides a standard 3D mesh file that imports into virtually any 3D application in existence.
What you get: A Wavefront OBJ file containing the three-dimensional mesh of your scanned room. This is the raw 3D geometry -- vertices, edges, and faces that define every surface the LiDAR scanner captured. It's the most versatile 3D export because OBJ is the most widely supported 3D file format in the industry.
Who it's for: 3D artists, architects, interior designers, game developers, visualization specialists, and anyone whose tools speak the language of 3D meshes. If you use Blender, SketchUp, AutoCAD, Maya, 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Rhino, Unity, Unreal Engine, or any other 3D application, OBJ import is almost certainly built in.
When to use it: When you need room geometry inside a 3D application. Use it as the starting point for a visualization project. Import it as the environment for a game level. Load it into a CAD application to develop architectural plans. Send it to a 3D printer to create a physical scale model. The OBJ file is the bridge between a physical room scan and the digital 3D workspace.
Workflow examples: A room scan to OBJ for an architect who needs to develop the space in AutoCAD. A room scan to OBJ for a 3D artist creating a photorealistic interior render in Blender. A room scan to OBJ for a game developer building a level based on a real location. Each workflow starts with the same 60-second scan.
The Reality export creates a file specifically designed for Apple's RealityKit framework and Reality Composer toolchain.
What you get: A .reality package file containing your room's 3D geometry in the format that Apple's AR development tools expect. Unlike the general-purpose OBJ format, Reality files carry metadata and structure that RealityKit understands natively, making them the most efficient path into Apple's AR ecosystem.
Who it's for: Developers building AR applications on Apple platforms. If you're creating an iOS app that uses ARKit or RealityKit to display 3D content, the Reality format is your native file type. It's also useful for anyone working with Reality Composer to build AR experiences without writing code.
When to use it: When your end goal is an AR experience built on Apple's platform. The Reality format preserves spatial accuracy and integrates cleanly with RealityKit's rendering pipeline, spatial audio, and physics systems. If you're building AR features into a real estate app, a home improvement tool, a property management platform, or any application that needs to display real rooms in augmented reality, this is the export for you.
What you can do with it: Import into Reality Composer to add animations, behaviors, and triggers. Assign custom materials and textures. Set up spatial audio sources. Create interactive AR walkthroughs. Build before-and-after renovation visualizations. The scanned room becomes the stage; everything else is up to your creativity and development skills.
The JSON export gives you the raw room geometry and metadata in a structured, machine-readable format. It's the developer's export.
What you get: A JSON file containing the complete room model -- wall positions, dimensions, angles, corner coordinates, and all the geometric data that defines the scanned space. No visual rendering, no file format constraints, just clean structured data that any programming language can parse.
Who it's for: Developers, data analysts, and anyone who builds custom tools. If you write Python scripts that process room data, build web applications that display floor plans, maintain databases of property measurements, or create custom reporting tools, the JSON export feeds directly into your pipeline.
When to use it: When you need programmatic access to room scan data. When you want to build something custom with the measurements. When you want to process room data in bulk. And critically, when you want to save a scan for later re-export.
The re-export trick: This is one of the most practical features of the JSON export. When you save a scan as JSON, you're saving the complete room model. Open that JSON file in ezSpace at any point in the future, and you can export it to any other format -- PDF, SVG, USDZ, OBJ, Reality -- without rescanning. It's your scan archive. Measured a room six months ago and now need an OBJ for a project? Open the JSON. Need to regenerate the PDF with different settings? Open the JSON. The scan data is preserved indefinitely.
Not sure which export to use? Here's the quick decision guide.
I need to print or email a floor plan. Export PDF. It's universally readable, looks professional, and includes measurements. This is the format for humans.
I need a floor plan for a design or architecture tool. Export SVG. Vector geometry scales perfectly and imports cleanly into Illustrator, Figma, or (with DXF conversion) AutoCAD.
I want to see the room in AR on my iPhone or iPad. Export USDZ. Open it and the room appears in augmented reality. No extra apps needed.
I need a 3D model for Blender, SketchUp, or other 3D software. Export OBJ. It's the universal 3D exchange format that imports into everything.
I'm building an AR app on Apple's platform. Export Reality. It integrates natively with RealityKit and Reality Composer.
I want to process the data programmatically or save it for later. Export JSON. It gives you raw data and acts as a permanent archive you can re-export from anytime.
I'm not sure yet. Export JSON and at least one other format you need right now. The JSON preserves everything, so you can always come back and export additional formats later without rescanning.
The best part? You don't have to choose just one. Export as many formats as you need from the same scan. The room scan captures all the data once; the exports are just different views of that data.
To learn more about the scanning process itself, see how LiDAR room scanning works. For an overview of the 3D exports specifically, check out the 3D room scan guide.
One scan. Six formats. Zero excuses for not having a floor plan.
