Downloading your data

Learn how to easily download and manage your data.

Updated on September 14th, 2026

Downloads start in the panel you're already working in. Pick what you want, choose the file types, and download — there's no separate export page to go to.

Capture files

1.    Select captures

In the Captures panel, click a capture's name. The name turns blue and the row highlights; click again to deselect. Selecting is separate from the eye icon, so you can download captures that you don't currently have loaded.

2.    Prepare Downloads

The button at the foot of the panel counts your selection — Prepare Downloads (2 selected). Press it and Looq finds the files for those captures. The reset arrow beside it clears the selection in one go.

Title: Screenshot - Description: A selected capture: the name turns blue and the row highlights, and the button at the foot of the panel counts the selection.

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A selected capture: the name turns blue and the row highlights, and the button at the foot of the panel counts the selection.

3.    Choose file types

Every file type starts ticked, and the total beside Deselect all tells you how big the whole download is — it can run to gigabytes. Untick what you don't need and the total drops as you go.

Title: Screenshot - Description: The download panel for one selected capture. Everything starts ticked; each type shows its file count and size, with the total beside Deselect all.

The download panel for one selected capture. Everything starts ticked; each type shows its file count and size, with the total beside Deselect all.

A capture offers up to six file types:

Point cloud

The full-density cloud in .LAZ format.

Thinned point cloud

A lighter cloud for software that struggles with full density such as PLS-CADD in .LAZ format.

Ortho

Stitched orthomosaic imagery in .TIFF format.

Panos

The panoramic imagery from along the capture path in .JPEG format.

Track

The trajectory the qCam recorded in geoJSON format.

PPK report

The post-processed kinematic report in .PDF format. It's generated when you download it, so it can take a moment.

 

4.    Download

Press Download. Untick everything and the button changes to Select files, staying disabled until you pick at least one type.

Only finished captures have files. A capture still processing has nothing to download yet — and its eye icon stays disabled until it completes, with a tooltip saying so. If the panel reports no downloadable files, check the capture's status first.

qPole and qSurvey deliverables

Same pattern, inside each module's own panel: Prepare Downloads at the foot of the panel, tick what you want, download.

Title: Screenshot - Description: qPole's download panel on a site built on an O'Calc library: O'Calc and CSV, both ticked to start.

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qPole's download panel on a site built on a SPIDA library: SPIDACalc and CSV, both ticked to start.

qPole

The button counts the poles you've modelled — Prepare Downloads (5 poles). Formats are SPIDACalc, O'Calc and CSV: CSV is always there, and the other two follow the format of the site's component library, so a site built on a SPIDA library offers SPIDACalc and CSV.

qSurvey

Lists the survey's deliverables grouped by type, with the same select-all, size totals and download button.

 

Align before you download to incorporate survey control. If your project requires alignment to survey ground control, remember to complete the Align step before download.