Open Pointcloud Studio v0.9.5

• One compact Start ribbon groups file, navigation, selection, section box, meshing, drawing, measuring, annotation, indexing and export tools. Mesh to Plan and all four meshing methods are visible in the main ribbon; groups fold into live dropdowns on narrow windows.
• Camera presets, point colours, point size, point budget, eye-dome shading and scan positions now open below the view cube. The local API and MCP command retain the view alias to open these controls.
• The feature video and screenshots were captured again from the native Rust build with the new single-tab interface and a 46.6-million-point E57 scan.

Downloads

• Windows 10 and 11, x64: open-pointcloud-studio_0.9.5_x64-setup.exe installs for the current user without administrator rights, or for all users. open-pointcloud-studio_0.9.5_windows-x64.zip is the same application without an installer. Installer and application carry a valid code signature.
• macOS 11 and later, arm64 and x86-64 processors in one file: open open-pointcloud-studio_0.9.5_macos-universal.dmg and drag the application to Applications; read the note on the first start below. open-pointcloud-studio_0.9.5_macos-universal.tar.gz holds the command-line binary without the application bundle, with Open CAD Studio beside it.
• Linux x86-64: open-pointcloud-studio_0.9.5_amd64.deb for Debian, Ubuntu and their relatives, open-pointcloud-studio_0.9.5_amd64.AppImage for any distribution, or open-pointcloud-studio_0.9.5_linux-amd64.tar.gz with the bare binary and Open CAD Studio beside it.
• Linux 64-bit ARM, experimental: open-pointcloud-studio_0.9.5_arm64.deb, open-pointcloud-studio_0.9.5_arm64.AppImage and open-pointcloud-studio_0.9.5_linux-arm64.tar.gz. They are built and tested on build machines with software rendering, not yet on real boards or laptops.
• Source of Open CAD Studio: open-cad-studio-source_fc19afa7.tar.gz holds the source that the Open CAD Studio in every package was built from, and open-cad-studio-vendor_fc19afa7.tar.gz the crates it was built with from git repositories; see Licence below.

Every file has a .sha256 beside it. Check a download with sha256sum -c FILE.sha256 on Linux, shasum -a 256 -c FILE.sha256 on macOS, or compare the output of Get-FileHash FILE on Windows.

The Linux packages also carry a build attestation, kept by GitHub. With the GitHub CLI, signed in with gh auth login, gh attestation verify FILE --repo OpenAEC-Foundation/open-pointcloud-studio --signer-workflow OpenAEC-Foundation/open-pointcloud-studio/.github/workflows/release.yml checks that the release workflow of this project attested the file and that it has not been changed since; the output names the tag the workflow ran for.

First start on macOS

The application is not signed with a paid developer certificate and not notarised, so macOS refuses to start it the first time. It has to be allowed once.

On macOS 15 and later: start the application, close the message, open System Settings > Privacy & Security, scroll to Security, choose Open Anyway and confirm. On macOS 11 to 14: Control-click the application, choose Open and confirm. On either, this command does the same:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Open Pointcloud Studio.app"

What Linux needs

A C library of version 2.35 or newer and the C++ runtime of GCC 12 or newer, which Open CAD Studio uses (Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Fedora 36 or later have both), X11 or Wayland, and a Vulkan driver or OpenGL ES 3 through EGL. File dialogs use the desktop portal, or zenity where there is none. The .deb installs what it needs.

A downloaded AppImage is not executable yet. Make it so once, with chmod +x open-pointcloud-studio_0.9.5_amd64.AppImage or in the file manager under Properties > Permissions, and then start it. It needs FUSE to mount itself (fusermount3 or fusermount); without it, start it as ./open-pointcloud-studio_0.9.5_amd64.AppImage --appimage-extract-and-run.

Licence

The desktop application is GPL-3.0-only, the point-cloud core LGPL-3.0-or-later. Every package carries the licence texts.

Every package also carries Open CAD Studio, the open-source CAD application by Hakan Seven and its contributors, which shows exported DXF and DWG drawings; it does not have to be installed separately. It is licensed GPL-3.0 and was built without changes from commit fc19afa7153443a1ca863817d4088ef8fd8e2e8d (2026-10-05) of https://github.com/HakanSeven12/OpenCADStudio. open-cad-studio-source_fc19afa7.tar.gz on this page holds the source of that commit, and open-cad-studio-vendor_fc19afa7.tar.gz the crates it takes from git repositories rather than from crates.io, each under its own licence; unpacked in one folder, the two build it. OpenCADStudio-NOTICE.txt in the packages names those crates with their licences and says the same.

Nederlands

Kies het bestand voor je systeem uit de lijst hierboven: het bestand op _x64-setup.exe voor Windows, het .dmg-bestand voor macOS, en voor Linux het .deb-bestand (Debian, Ubuntu) of de .AppImage (elke distributie). De pakketten voor Linux op 64-bits ARM zijn experimenteel.

Elk pakket bevat ook Open CAD Studio, dat geëxporteerde DXF- en DWG-tekeningen toont; het hoeft niet apart geïnstalleerd te worden. Open CAD Studio valt onder de GPL-3.0 en is zonder wijzigingen gebouwd uit commit fc19afa7153443a1ca863817d4088ef8fd8e2e8d (2026-10-05) van https://github.com/HakanSeven12/OpenCADStudio. De broncode van die commit staat op deze pagina als open-cad-studio-source_fc19afa7.tar.gz, en de crates uit git-repository's waarmee het is gebouwd, elk onder een eigen licentie, als open-cad-studio-vendor_fc19afa7.tar.gz.

De Linux-pakketten hebben ook een build-attestatie, bewaard door GitHub. Met de GitHub CLI, aangemeld met gh auth login, controleert gh attestation verify BESTAND --repo OpenAEC-Foundation/open-pointcloud-studio --signer-workflow OpenAEC-Foundation/open-pointcloud-studio/.github/workflows/release.yml dat de release-workflow van dit project het bestand heeft geattesteerd en dat het daarna niet is veranderd; de uitvoer noemt de tag waarvoor de workflow liep.

Een gedownloade AppImage is nog niet uitvoerbaar. Maak het bestand één keer uitvoerbaar met chmod +x open-pointcloud-studio_0.9.5_amd64.AppImage, of in de bestandsbeheerder onder Eigenschappen > Rechten, en start het daarna.

macOS weigert de eerste start, omdat de applicatie niet met een betaald ontwikkelaarscertificaat is ondertekend en niet genotariseerd is. macOS 15 en nieuwer: start de applicatie, sluit de melding, open Systeeminstellingen > Privacy en beveiliging, scrol naar Beveiliging, kies Open toch en bevestig. macOS 11 tot en met 14: Control-klik op de applicatie, kies Open en bevestig.