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Product line · Terrestrial laser scanners
RTC is Leica’s terrestrial reality-capture family. The RTC360 arrived in 2018, the lighter RTC360 LT in 2019 – and in 2026 the stepped RTC300 / RTC500 / RTC700 replace that generation: faster, more accurate, tougher, and tied together with FIELD 360, VIS and Livelink.
2026 series
The new range is no longer a single flagship. Three scanners share one platform: 6-camera HDR, 512 GB internal SSD, IP55, automatic self-calibration and VIS real-time registration. Range, scan rate and survey workflows are what change – not the whole machine.
The RTC360 stays in the range as the proven previous generation: 2 million pts/s, 130 m, VIS and the familiar Cyclone workflows. The RTC360 LT was the light variant without VIS and at half the scan rate – useful when budget beats automation. New investment usually means 300, 500 or 700.
The entry model of the new series: 1 million pts/s, 85 m range, the same IP55 platform and field-first capture for building and civil works.
Best for: Interiors, mid-size sites, rapid construction documentation.
View product →The mid range: 2 million pts/s and 130 m range. The all-rounder for infrastructure, industry and AEC, without the RTC700’s extra survey workflows.
Best for: Infrastructure, industry, scan-to-BIM, digital twins.
View product →The flagship: 270 m range, finest resolution (1.6 mm @ 10 m), area scan and survey setups through FIELD 360.
Best for: Plant engineering, heritage, large survey projects.
View product →Technical data
| Spec | RTC360 LT | RTC360 | RTC300 | RTC500 | RTC700 |
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| Generation | 2019 light | 2018 | 2026 series | 2026 series | 2026 series |
| Scan rate | 1.000.000 pts/s | 2.000.000 pts/s | 1.000.000 pts/s | 2.000.000 pts/s | 2.000.000 pts/s |
| Max. range | 130 m | 130 m | 85 m (3.5% albedo) | 130 m (8% albedo) | 270 m (32% albedo) |
| Min. range | 0,5 m | 0,5 m | 0,5 m | 0,5 m | 0,5 m |
| Angular accuracy | 18″ | 18″ | 10″ | 10″ | 10″ |
| 3D point accuracy68% confidence level per Leica datasheet, 89% albedo. | 1,9 mm @ 10 m | 1,9 mm @ 10 m | 1,5 mm @ 10 m | 1,5 mm @ 10 m | 1,5 mm @ 10 m |
| Range noise | 0,4 mm @ 10 m | 0,4 mm @ 10 m | 0,2 mm @ 10 m | 0,2 mm @ 10 m | 0,2 mm @ 10 m |
| Resolution @ 10 m | 3 / 6 / 12 mm | 3 / 6 / 12 mm | 3 / 6 / 12 / 25 mm | 3 / 6 / 12 / 25 mm | 1,6 / 3 / 6 / 12 / 25 mm |
| Camera | 36 MP, 3 cameras | 36 MP, 3 cameras | 72 MP, 6 cameras | 72 MP, 6 cameras | 72 MP, 6 cameras |
| HDR sphere | ~3 min | ~1 min | 30 s | 30 s | 30 s |
| VIS (real-time registration) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Livelink / multi-scanner | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
What changes
Angular accuracy 10″ instead of 18″. 3D point accuracy 1.5 mm @ 10 m instead of 1.9 mm. Range noise 0.2 mm @ 10 m instead of 0.4 mm. Range accuracy 1.2 mm + 10 ppm.
72 MP 6-camera system instead of 36 MP with three cameras. Spherical HDR in 30 s instead of about a minute. RTC500/700 finish a full dome plus HDR in ~1:40 min, the RTC300 in ~2:30 min.
IP55 instead of IP54, operating temperature −20 to +50 °C instead of −5 to +40 °C, internal 512 GB SSD instead of a 256 GB USB stick, USB-C, Wi-Fi ax, 4.3″ touch display.
VIS stays, and now ships on the whole series. New is Livelink: live field-to-office and crew-to-crew connectivity in Cyclone FIELD 360 and Hexagon GeoCloud, including multi-scanner coordination. The RTC700 adds area scan down to 0.8 mm @ 10 m and classic survey setups.
Older models
The scanner that made field reality capture fast: 2 million pts/s, 130 m, VIS registration between setups, double scan against moving objects, under two minutes including HDR.
Best for: Existing fleets that already run VIS and 2 million pts/s.
View product →The light RTC360: same 130 m class and 3D accuracy, but no VIS cameras and 1 million pts/s. HDR takes about three minutes. Less automation, the same kind of data.
Best for: Budget work where office registration is acceptable.
View product →The survey-grade TLS line before RTC. Longer, heavier, built for maximum range and classic total-station workflows – still listed as a sister product on the RTC360 sheet. Teams moving off the P-series usually land on an RTC500 or RTC700.
Very long range and survey-style setups.
Workflow
Field app for iOS/Android: remote control, tagging, pre-registration. On the new series it also carries Livelink and – on the RTC700 – resection, traverse and target measurements to 75 m.
View software →Office registration and point-cloud QA. The RTC360 workflow ended here; the 2026 series already sends cleaner pre-registered data from the field.
View software →Hexagon cloud for sharing, measuring and coordination. Livelink hangs the new RTC series directly into that collaboration.
View software →Downloads
Range, albedo, registration and budget pick the tier – not the name on the housing. We’ll run that with you.
| Ingress protection |
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| IP54 |
| IP54 |
| IP55 |
| IP55 |
| IP55 |
| Operating temperature | −5 bis +40 °C | −5 bis +40 °C | −20 bis +50 °C | −20 bis +50 °C | −20 bis +50 °C |
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| Weight without batteries | 5,2 kg | 5,35 kg | 5,5 kg | 5,5 kg | 5,5 kg |
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| Storage | 256 GB USB stick | 256 GB USB stick | 512 GB internal SSD | 512 GB internal SSD | 512 GB internal SSD |
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Technical values from the Leica datasheets RTC Series 2026 (1050953, 06.2026), RTC360 (872752de, 10.2025) and RTC360 LT (897298, 04.2022). Accuracies at 68% confidence and 89% albedo where the sheet states it.
