I would like to be able to present rendered equipment layouts (see image below) on a web page that would allow the viewer to pan, orbit and zoom the model. Hope one of you sages have a good tool for doing this. I have seen some panoramas that take advantage of WebGL but I am not sure if they provide me the capability to pan and zoom as well as orbit. I also want to be able to render them so that I can get a higher quality than just the SketchUp textures?
Also, can someone share any knowledge of Trimble Connect. Does it provide a way to do these kinds of things?
My goal is to be able to share the rendered models on the web without requiring any type of special software by the viewer.
Here is a sample image. The layouts of this type of equipment can run from about 80’ in length to around 200’ in length and I want the viewer to be able to get a good look at each piece of equipment.
When you publish a model to 3DWarehouse, you have the option to make it public or private.
When you click on the Embed tab (which I circled in the image above) you can click on 3D Viewer which will give you a bit of HTML that you can copy and paste to share the model in the viewer.
I finally got the model to show up on a web page but:
I had to set the access to Public. Otherwise it told me that I could not view it because I did not have access to it.
All I got to see was a still image with the 3D Warehouse logo
I had to grab the URL and embed it into code like you showed in your previous post
@TheOnlyAaron Even if I get this to work, witch could have some value, I cannot do that with a model that is rendered with a render engine like say Twilight or Thea (as examples). But at this point I want to take one step at a time.
You have to click on the stillshot to load the WebGL viewer. (You’ll see a “Techie-Cookie Joke” whilst it is loading, like “Warming Up the Large Hadron Collider …”, along with the SketchUp icon centered in the view while it’s loading.)
Thanks Dan. The first part is my mistake. I did not click on the 3DViewer link to get the right code for my web page.
However, I think the real problem is that even on the 3D Warehouse page, I cannot view my model in the 3D mode. When I go to My Collection and the click on the orbit icon, I am getting this error:
Do I need to do something special when I upload the model in order to make it available in the 3D mode?
My next issue will be to make the model private and then embed it on my web page. I do not want others to be able to download it but will want it available for viewing on our web pages.
I juist tried your model (found by searching on “nxtdave”) and it took a few minutes for the model to load into the webGL viewer, but it worked, and I have a very old OpenGL 2.1 low end notebook.
I ask because, my.sketchup.com, the 3DW viewer, and both Mobile Viewers apps now all use the same webGL viewer.
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I juist tried your model (found by searching on “nxtdave”) and it took a few minutes for the model to load into the webGL viewer, but it worked, and I have a very old OpenGL 2.1 low end notebook.
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In addition, it was a little slow orbiting, and all the textures (or maybe faces) disappeared until I let up on the orbital drag. Sometimes it took a few seconds to re-render the faces, after I stopped.
Well, I think the problem is that I am using the Microsoft browsers (which I think most of our customers would be using). I tried it with Chrome and it worked. The only problem there is the same thing I see a lot in SketchUp when I pan or obit the model there is a lag when it is displayed.
I know a lot of people on these forums do not like and use the Microsoft browsers but a ton of the business community still use it and I must be able to display the pages so they will work in them.
Okay, now I see the error popup, trying with MSIE 11.
The problem with this is that MSIE is not fully webGL compliant, and may never be. It is unlikely any of the IE versions will get any more updates. They’ve just moved on to Edge.
If Chromeframe is still available, that would be your only workaround to display that <iframe> from the Trimble 3DW, within a ChromeFrame, within your webpage, in MSIE.
Well I just tried my.SketchUp and it worked. Not sure I like it though and how do you get any plugins to work with it?
I am going to give the Sketchfab plugin a try. Looks like it might be the best alternative. Everything seems to work find over there and other pages that use WebGL seem to work. Just seems to be a problem on the Trimble product sites. But then that is just my jaded opinion.