Polycam
3D scanning app for mobile and web that captures LiDAR and photogrammetry scans generates meshes floor plans and measurements and exports to common 3D formats.
BigML
End to end machine learning platform with GUI and REST API that covers data prep modeling evaluation deployment and governance for cloud or on premises use.
Feature Tags Comparison
Only in Polycam
Shared
Only in BigML
Key Features
Polycam
- • Photogrammetry: Build detailed meshes and textures from photo sets captured on phones or drones
- • LiDAR capture: Use depth sensors on iOS to scan interiors with strong scale fidelity
- • Measurements: Take scale aware measurements and generate floor plans in business tiers
- • Web viewer: Share interactive models with links for client reviews and comments
- • Formats: Export OBJ FBX GLTF and point clouds into DCC and BIM tools
- • Collaboration: Organize projects invite reviewers and control permissions
BigML
- • GUI and REST API for the full ML lifecycle with reproducible resources
- • AutoML and ensembles
- • Time series anomaly detection clustering and topic modeling
- • WhizzML to script and share pipelines
- • Versioned immutable resources
- • Organizations with roles projects and dashboards
Use Cases
Polycam
- → Scan rooms and sites for quick as built references
- → Create object models for product design and ecommerce
- → Document excavation or heritage assets with photogrammetry
- → Produce floor plans and measurements for real estate
- → Share interactive models for remote client reviews
- → Import into engines for AR VR previews and staging
BigML
- → Stand up a governed ML workflow
- → Automate repeatable training and evaluation with WhizzML
- → Detect anomalies for risk monitoring
- → Forecast demand with time series
- → Cluster customers and products
- → Embed predictions through the REST API
Perfect For
Polycam
architects surveyors real estate pros construction teams archaeologists product designers educators and creators who need fast accurate capture to 3D
BigML
Data scientists, analytics engineers, and ML platform teams who want a standardized GUI plus API approach to build govern and deploy models
Capabilities
Polycam
BigML
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