Posts made by Laurent Diaz

Looking forward to getting your feedback!

If you want to test the export fully in Spread3D Pro (the trial doesn't let you export), you can contact me. I will give you a temporary license.

Spread3D 1.2 has been released!

At Spread3D, we are working to improve the communication between clients and SketchUp designers by providing you a simple tool creating interactive 3D experiences you can export as a webpage and share offline (using the standalone player or embedded in PowerPoint).

You can use Spread3D to showcase, document, create interactive walkthrough and share your 3D models. You need 3 clicks to create a simple experience!
[flash=640,360:3jln5d8v]http://www.youtube.com/v/OGRh1ap9Bwg&hl=en&fs=1[/flash:3jln5d8v]

Spread3D 1.2 is available now in 3 versions: Free for non-commercial use, Lite (35€) and Pro (199€).

In this releases, we have added the following features:

• Offline review using the Spread3D Player
• Integration with Powerpoint
• More styling, customization and templates options for the user interface

•   Lightbox effect: embed your 3D experiences in animated pop-up window triggered when clicking on an image, a link...
  

We have also introduced a free SketchUp plugin extending the scene functionality: you associate components and groups positions, orientations and scales to a given scene. By sequencing them, you can now create object animations!

Here is a video of the kind of output you can get:
[flash=640,360:3jln5d8v]http://www.youtube.com/v/_c13-tAOuSI&hl=en&fs=1[/flash:3jln5d8v]
This plugin is still in beta so let me know if you find any issue.

If you want to know more:

• Complete list of features
• Play with our showcases (on windows and with Chrome 21 anti-aliasing is broken and the rendering looks very jittered, this is a temporary bug introduced by this specific Chrome version. You can fix it by following the instructions on the showcase page)
• Download Free, Lite trial or Pro trial.

If you need specific new features for Spread3D free/lite/pro, tell us on this forum or make a feature request!

@bsusala said:

Awesome tool, I've done an "experience" in some minutes... Amazing. Would be even more amazing if would exist some sort of Interaction tool, though. Is it in your development plans?

Nice to know you like Spread3D!

What do you need in term of interaction?
As of today in the Pro version, you have more navigation tools and you can create buttons opening an image, a webpage, changing the viewpoint or playing an animation (moving objects and/or camera). Our next steps will be to add components selection and more specific interactions for walkthrough.

Let me know if you have some other ideas!

Merci Pilou pour le test!
Je note la demande pour améliorer la navigation.

J'en suis vraiment désolé mais faute de temps, le site et le logiciel ne sont pas encore en Français. N'hésitez pas à nous demander de l'aide pour la version pro ou gratuite en français sur ce forum ou par mail via le formulaire de contact du site.

Nous avons fait en sorte que le logiciel soit suffisamment simple pour que la barrière de langue ne soit pas un (trop) gros problème (la preuve pour l'instant les pays qui utilisent le plus Spread3D sont la Chine et la Russie ). Sinon les vidéos tutoriaux devraient vous aider.

En ce qui concerne les autres formats (3ds, obj), nous allons commencer leurs intégrations à partir de Septembre. Cet été, nous nous concentrons sur le rajout de fonctionnalités pour les utilisateurs Sketchup.

@aerilius said:

Only you're putting a little limitation to your users (that actually doesn't exist), why write not

I see that you are under Linux but we haven't tested our software on this platform. That's why we didn't put desktop computers in general.

Hi Trogluddite,

Thanks for your feedback: I am glad to know you find Spread3D easy to use. We have done our best to make a software you don't need to learn!

Regarding the issues you raise:

• the Z-clipping problem is indeed there if your model has non-standard scale. To fix that, our next release (end of this month for Spread3D Pro) will include a control to adjust it.
• Texturing should work in Free Edition also (including complexe cases like distorted textures). I have just checked with a couple of models but maybe one of your textures use a format we do not support yet... Do you mind sharing one model (or a part of it) having the issue to our support mail address (support at spread3d.com)?

Well Hover and Walk are the two most intensive features and you can have performance issues on some configurations or with some laptop drivers (the Flash player team is increasing the number of supported configurations at every release...).

Do you mind sending your machine + browser configuration to "support at spread3d.com" so that I can see if anything can be done?

Please note that we have successfully tested our product with low end computers (laptops with integrated graphics cards for instance) which are not even able to open the original Sketchup models!

Did you download and try Spread3D with your models?
We are in beta for several months and we have dozens of customers happy with the output. They use it as an effective way to share or document their models.

It is true that you cannot expect the same 3D quality than in a video game as we are dealing with web technologies which have their own limitations.
However, if you compare it with similar "standard" sharing technology (like 3D PDF for instance), I think we are much more reliable and stable...

**Update: Spread3D 1.2 is out!**Check this post.

In a few clicks, Spread3D turns your SketchUp models into interactive 3D web experiences you can easily integrate in your blog or your website.

The exported web pages are powered by the popular Flashplugin running on all Mac and Windows desktop computers.

[flash=640,360:3jnp8wvc]http://www.youtube.com/v/SZAmNcP2Dvw&hl=en&fs=1[/flash:3jnp8wvc]

Spread3D is available in two versions:

• A Free Edition for hobbyists, students and SketchUp enthusiasts
• A Pro Edition with more features (animations, 3D texts, 3D buttons, sounds, logo, password protection, interactive walk...) and no commercial use restriction

If you want to learn more about Spread3D:

• Play with our showcases to see what web 3D means!
• Have a look to our detailed video tutorials to get started quickly
• No website? Use DropBox (see tutorial) or StatiCloud to share your 3D experiences online

You can download the free edition and a trial of the pro edition directly from our website (Windows installer only as of now, Mac users: kindly wait we are working hard for you!).

Hi everybody,

We have just released our new free product Spread3D Free Edition for Sketchup.

In a few clicks, you can directly import your sketchup models and generate real time 3d experiences (viewers, virtual walkthrough...) embedded in webpages which can be shared online. It relies on Flash and you get full hardware acceleration on Windows and Mac browsers.

You can have a look to our showcases and watch our introduction video. In this video, we also demonstrate how you can use DropBox to share your 3D models easily.

Try it, it is free !

If you are interested in suggesting the next product features, subscribe to the mailing list to get access to the beta of the Pro Version.

Let us know if you have any question/issue/suggestion!

Laurent Diaz,

Founder of Spread3D