Sphere XG Viewer Menus

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.

Clicking the triangle icons collapses or expands the 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, see Tab Capture: Icons and Elements in the Project Structure View.

If you have imported a 3D model, it is shown on this tab. For more information, see Tab 3D Model.

With this toolbar, you can activate the different views of the Sphere XG Viewer:

Changes to the 3D view, see Tab Capture: 3D View.

Default view on opening a project. Changes to the 2D view, see Tab Capture: 2D View.

Changes to the walk mode view, see Tab Capture: Walk Mode.

This part of the screen shows the selected element(s) of your project in the selected view.

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. You can find descriptions of all toolbars in General and View-specific Toolbars.

Click this button to import either a point cloud or a 3D model to your project. You can import more than one point cloud, however not at the same time.

Subset of the user settings available on the Sphere XG Dashboard:

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This section provides an overview of the toolbars that are visible in the 2D View, the 3D view, the walk mode view as well as on tab 3D Model.

You can find this toolbar on the lower left side of the screen. This toolbar is available in all views:

Changes to the 3D view, see Tab Capture: 3D View.

Default view on opening a project. Changes to the 2D view, see Tab Capture: 2D View.

Changes to the walk mode view, see Tab Capture: Walk Mode.

You can find this toolbar on the upper right side of the screen. This toolbar is available in all views.

Define which elements you want to see in the current view. You can switch the visibility for waypoints, annotations, measurements and trajectories on and off. For 3D views, you can also define if you want to see only nearby objects or all objects.

Either set specific tag filters or to select only untagged elements. You can set tags in the Project settings by clicking the icon. You can use the tags in annotations. For more information, see Filter for Tags.

You can select the layer you want to see, for example a point cloud, a sheet, etc.

You can find this toolbar on the middle right side of the screen. The content of this toolbar varies depending on the view that is currently selected. The list below shows the single toolbar buttons with indications in which view they are available.

2D view, 3D view, 3D model. Only possible in the walkmode view if the 360° images have depth information: Make measurements.

All views, visible only in the 2D view: Make an annotation, see Tags and Annotations.

2D view: Make colored sheet black and white, see Make a Sheet Black and White.

3D view: Create a clipping box with a subvolume of the point cloud for export.

2D view, 3D view, 3D model: Create a temporary clipping box.

3D view, 3D model: Reduce and increase the opacity of the sheet, point cloud and 3D model via the sliders, see Make Point Cloud, 3D Model or Sheet Visible in Your Project.

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