FARO SCENE

FARO SCENE is FARO's main office software for terrestrial and mobile laser scan data. It takes raw scans from FARO devices such as the Focus scanners, Focus Swift, Orbis mobile scanner, Freestyle 2 and Blink, and from some third-party scanners. It registers them into one point cloud using interactive and hybrid methods that combine cloud-to-cloud, target-based and survey-control registration. It automatically finds spheres, checkerboards, coded markers and natural features. It also filters scans, balances color, and colorizes scans from photos or Laser-HDR captures. Point clouds can be viewed in 2D, 3D and VR. Large jobs can be organized in a project hierarchy with history, and the SCENE 2go viewer lets you hand a project to a client without an install. The software suits surveyors, construction and engineering firms, plant and facility documentation teams, and forensic investigators who already own FARO hardware. FARO publishes no list prices. Licenses are sold through sales or resellers as perpetual licenses with 12 months of maintenance, or as term subscriptions, and a free 30-day trial is available. FARO's licensing manager supports network licenses. SCENE connects to FARO Sphere XG for cloud sharing, FARO As-Built for CAD and BIM modeling, BuildIT Construction for quality control, and FARO Zone 3D for forensics. Its main limitation is that it is a registration and processing tool, not an asset management or analytics platform. It has no machine learning classification, offers limited deep tolerance analysis, needs a powerful Windows workstation, and works most smoothly only within FARO's own hardware ecosystem. FARO is now part of AMETEK.