# 2. Prepare and Upload Your Data

<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Inside your project, click **Add Object** </span>**<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Liberation Sans',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">→ </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Raw Data </span>**<span style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">and choose the type of dataset you want to import:</span>

**<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Point Cloud</span>**

- <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Upload LiDAR or photogrammetry point clouds</span>
- **<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Supported formats: </span>**<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">.las, .laz, .txt, .xyz, or compressed .zip files</span>
- <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Provide an object name and optional description</span>
- <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Select your file</span>

<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';"> </span>**<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Mesh</span>**

- <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Upload surface meshes (e.g., .obj files)</span>
- <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">When prompted for a column meta label, supply "Default" or another appropriate label</span>
- <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Choose your file</span>

<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';"> </span>**<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Block Model</span>**

- <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Upload block-model tables</span>
- **<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Supported formats: </span>**<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">.csv, .txt, .xls, .xlsx, or .zip</span>
- <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Map your columns to Origin X, Origin Y, Origin Z, and Value fields</span>
- <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Select horizontal and vertical datums and a projection</span>

<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';"> </span>**<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Ortho-Imagery</span>**

- <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Upload orthorectified images or mosaics</span>
- **<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Supported formats: </span>**<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">.png, .jpg, .bmp, or .tif</span>
- <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">For PNG/JPEG/BMP files, include the corresponding world file (.jgw, .pgw, .tfw, etc.)</span>
- <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">GeoTIFFs embed this metadata and can be uploaded directly</span>

<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';"> </span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">After choosing the file and completing required fields, click **Create**. A new row appears in the project list showingthe object type, creation time, size, and status icon. Note that raw objects cannot be visualized until they areprocessed.</span>