If you open a project in the Sphere XG Dashboard, you are redirected to the Sphere XG Viewer.
In the Sphere XG Viewer, you can view and work with point clouds, 360 photos and BIM (Building Information Modeling) models. If your project was captured with the Orbis scanner, you can also use Flash scans.
The default view is the 2D view, i.e. the sheet (floorplan) of the project.
In all views, buttons and parameters that are currently active or selected are highlighted blue.
Breadcrumbs and Toggle Live/Draft
The breadcrumbs show you where you are in the project. Clicking a breadcrumb opens the corresponding page.
With the Life/Draft toggle, you can change between the project draft on the Manage data page and the published (live) project. You can also open the Manage data page by clicking the Edit scans button, see below. If you are looking at a project that is currently being published, the toggle is marked with a red indicator dot. Currently, the Manage data feature only works for Blink scans.
Collapse and Expand the Project Structure View
Clicking the triangle icons collapses or expands the project structure view.
Capture (Project Structure View)
The project structure view contains all elements of your project in a tree view. Every element is displayed with a specific icon.
The project structure view contains all elements of your project in a tree view. Every element is displayed with a specific icon. See Capture Tab: Icons and Elements in the Project Structure View in the Sphere XG User Manual.
3D Model
If you have imported a 3D model, it is shown on this tab, see Overview of the 3D Model Tab.
Annotations
The annotations tab contains the project's annotations in a list view with search, filter and sort options. See also Create and Manage Annotations.
Edit scans Button
Clicking this button opens the project draft on the Manage data page (see Process and Register Blink Scans). If you are looking at a project that is currently being published, the toggle is marked with a red indicator dot. Currently, the Manage data feature only works for Blink scans.
Import data button
Click this button to import either a point cloud, a 3D model, Blink scans or a sheet to your project. See Import Data Sets.
General Toolbar
Share project: Opens a popup with a link to the project. You can then copy the link and send it via email or other communication tool to the person(s) you want. If the project's access level is Private, the addressee of the link needs a account or must create one and must be invited to the project or workspace. If the project's access level is Via link, anyone with the project link can see the project.
Help: Opens a menu in which you can open a chatbot, the Help Center, a video tutorial page and a feedback form.
Cloud activity: Opens the Cloud activity form.
User settings, legal documents and log-out: Allows viewing and changing various settings and legal document. See User Account Settings for more information.
View-specific Toolbars
The number and content of these toolbars vary depending on the selected view, i.e. the 3D view, the 2D view and the walk mode view.
Project View
This part of the screen shows the selected element(s) of your project in the selected view.
Views Toolbar
With this toolbar, you can activate the different views of the Sphere XG Viewer:
Changes to the 3D view.
Default view on opening a project. Changes to the 2D view.
Changes to the walk mode view.
For a detailed and structured description of the Sphere XG Viewer, see the Sphere XG Viewer chapter and its subchapters in our Sphere XG User Manual.