Viewing and Editing
How to utilize all the Nira viewer features.
Controls
Controls and helpful keyboard shortcuts
Display
Setting up the best viewer experience for your asset.
Articles
- Tips after uploadingSteps after upload: learn navigation, fix orientation or missing colors, and set the starting view and thumbnail, including Default View Variant behavior.
- Fix asset orientation (coordinate system)Fix an upside-down or sideways asset with the Y-up and Z-up buttons in Edit Mode, then save and set the starting view.
- Show or hide coordinatesTurn click coordinates on or off with Show Click Coordinates in Share, choose latitude and longitude or Cartesian, and see where else coordinates appear.
- Show a message when an asset loads (asset description)Write an asset description and choose whether it opens automatically as a message when the asset loads.
- Screenshots and high-resolution image exportHigh-resolution screenshots are not available yet. Download a screenshot at screen size, or add callouts and measurements to a PDF report.
- Clipping VolumeLimit the visible model to a cuboid with the Clipping Volume in Edit Mode, adjust it with Draw and Gizmo, and let viewers adjust it from Share > Options.
- Sections and elevation profiles with the Clipping VolumeCreate section views and elevation profiles in Edit Mode by enabling the Clipping Volume, adjusting size, position and orientation, then saving.
- Collision surfaces for walk modeGenerate a collision surface so walk mode stops at walls and floors, pick the right model units, and see why a file was skipped or failed.
- Empty or blank sceneIf a scene looks empty, use the Go to buttons to find far-apart objects, and export RealityCapture OBJ files with Save mesh by parts.
- Missing colors on an assetVertex colors give less detail than textures. See how to provide each kind of color for a mesh and avoid a model that only looks textured.
- Fix unassigned textures (solid white or grey areas)Fix solid white or grey areas on a model by selecting the material in Edit Mode, assigning the texture under Base Color, and saving.
- Missing or unassigned texturesTell apart a purple and yellow checkered model from a solid white or grey one, and go to the right fix for each kind of missing texture.
- Upload missing textures (purple and yellow checkerboard)Find textures marked Missing! in the material panel of Edit Mode, then upload the missing files to the asset.
- Connectivity and performance troubleshootingFix lag in the viewer by checking for a saturated internet connection or uploads in progress, and what to send us when you report it.