3d view feature on the 3d Warehouse

scottlininger

how are you doing it? is an image series created when the model is uploaded?

You got it. This processing takes some time, so you won't see your 3d view instantly after upload... but come back later and you'll be in business. The whole idea is to provide a lightweight 3d view without the need for special plugins.

Alan Fraser

Scott, is this an improvement on the web exporter plugin in the SketchUp downloads section, or the same version? I notice that it now has large rotate arrows over the image window, which weren't there before.

scottlininger

@alan fraser said:

Scott, is this an improvement on the web exporter plugin in the SketchUp downloads section.

It's more of a variation than an improvement. Same idea, though.

brodie

Just noticed this, really nice feature.

Didn't someone here suggest that awhile back? I was thinking Plot since he's always inventing cool stuff for Google to work on but he didn't take credit so maybe I made the whole thing up?

-Brodie

Gaieus

Hehe... A bit late Scott:
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=179&t=14863

But surely some more spotlight is always good!

I definitely like this new feature as well as the 3D map introduced a while ago.

When are we going to have rich(er) text (or html) content in the descriptions in the WH?

Al Hart

Is there a way for us to use this to create interactive 3D models on our own web pages?

Or is it only available for models which are shared on the 3D Warehouse?

brodie

It's basically the new(ish) SketchUp Web Exporter. You can find it under the plugins list. Pretty nifty tool depending on what you're modeling. If you want to show someone a bookcase, it could be very handy. If you're showing them a 2 story house w/ site it's probably not very handy because you can't really do much w/ how it wants to rotate around the model.

http://sketchup.google.com/download/plugins.html

Gaieus

Also,Al,at the very bottom of the page of the individual models, there is an "Include" button that opens a link for an iFrame which you can simply add to your site.

Al Hart

Thanks, Gai.

My question was in relation to people who want to share images from their projects - but don't want to make the .SKP models public - which is necessary if you place them on the 3D warehouse.

The 3D image exporter will work well for this.

decipher

I was looking at doing something similar to this on our site.. There is an opensource flash library called 'Papervision 3D' which has support for collada files.. so in theory you could create a flash widget which would load a collada version of the 3d model and let you zoom and pan around it at will

Obviously this would only work for smaller models, but that is the focus of our site. Maybe sometime soon!