Room Scanning

iOS

LiDAR-powered RoomPlan turns a walk through your space into a clean parametric floor plan — walls, doors, windows, and recognised furniture, exported as a single USDZ scene.

What you can do

RoomPlan capture

Walk through a room with your iPhone's LiDAR sensor. NFC.cool builds a parametric model in real time — walls, doors, windows, and openings.

Recognised furniture

Beds, sofas, tables, chairs, storage, stoves, sinks, toilets, bathtubs and TVs are detected and labelled inside the scene.

Floor area & dimensions

Every room reports floor area, ceiling height, and per-wall dimensions. Read them off the model or embed them in the exported USDZ.

AR Quick Look

Open the finished room in AR Quick Look or share the USDZ — recipients can walk around the model right inside Messages.

From a walk-through to a working floor plan

Place your room in AR

iOS

Once a scan is finished, drop it into AR Quick Look and physically walk around the digital twin. Useful for sanity-checking furniture placement before you buy, or for getting a sense of scale that drawings on a tablet just don't convey.

Multi-room workflows

iOS

Each scan is one room. Capture the kitchen, capture the living room, capture the bedrooms — they live side-by-side in your library, and a 3D editor of your choice can stitch them into a multi-room USDZ. Particularly useful for real-estate listings, renovation planning, or insurance documentation.

Hardware & output

Hardware requirements

iPhone with LiDAR (12 Pro and newer Pro models)
iPad Pro (2020) and newer also supported
RoomPlan available from iOS 16; the latest improvements ship on iOS 17+

Output

USDZ scene with named entities
Walls, doors, windows, openings
Recognised furniture categories
Floor area and dimensions

Free vs Platinum

	Free	Platinum
Scan rooms with RoomPlan	✓	✓
View the parametric model	✓	✓
Walk through in AR Quick Look	✓	✓
Export room as USDZ	✗	✓
Floor-area calculation	✗	✓
Export raw room photos	✗	✓

Frequently asked

Do I need LiDAR?

Yes. RoomPlan is a LiDAR-only API from Apple. (Object Scanning needs LiDAR too — Apple's Object Capture session checks for it.)

How long does a scan take?

Just walk through the room. The result is generated live and is ready when you finish.

Can I open the result in CAD software?

Yes — USDZ is supported by most modern CAD/3D tools. For SketchUp / Revit workflows, convert via Blender or a free USD-to-OBJ tool.