Use iPhone or iPad to Explore Your 3D Sketchup Designs

There is a brand new app called Viso3D for iPhone and iPad that lets you walk around and explore your 3D Sketchup designs.

Here is the app store link to click from your device to download: Download Viso3D here.

Once you have the app, I can email you your 3D file and you can begin exploring. Just use one finger and drag up, down, left or right to walk around. Here are some more advanced moves to change your point of view:

Once you open a model, you will see the navigation and menu tool bar on the bottom right of the display as you see in the image below.

Let’s take a look at each icon tool item and examine their function.
One figure gesture. 

One finger gesture or dragging your one finger across the iPad screen will always produce a walk around effect no matter which navigation icon you choose. This motion will ignore your navigation icon choice. Moving your finger up the screen will move the camera forward. Moving your one figure down the screen, will move the camera backwards. Dragging your one figure to the left or right , will move the camera in your fingers direction.
Two fingers.

Two finger gesture or dragging two fingers simultaneously across the screen will have a different effect with each of the navigation tools. As a default, without any navigation tools selected, the two finger motion will move the camera position up or down and pivot the camera without moving the camera forward or backwards. This is similar to SketchUp’s Look Around features. Two finger movement with specific navigation tools such as Pan, Rotate and Orbit will have different effects.
Pinch and Spread. 

Two finger pinch and spread will zoom the camera in or out.

Pan. When the pan icon is invoked and you use two fingers, the Viso3D camera will pan in a horizontal or vertical manner in one plane.

Rotate. The rotate icon moves the camera much like Look Around does in SketchUp. It will rotate the camera freely in all directions. Two fingers must be used.

Orbit. The orbit tool requires two fingers to work. This will orbit the camera around an axis point which is usually the center of the model.

The edge tool is not a navigation tool. Rather it will draw lines on the edges of the faces.

The light bulb icon will turn the lightmap off or on. With the light map off, the shadows and the ambient light will be removed.

The magnify glass icon simply moves the field of view forward or backward.

The home icon will bring the camera back to the original coordinate of the specific scene. It’s very useful if you are getting lost.

The preset icon will display all the available scenes that were exported from SketchUp with the .xcs file. You can select the scenes and navigate around the model this way. Keep in mind, the shadow positions will not change when you change scenes. Changing scenes in Viso3D, changes the camera position to where it was located in the SketchUp scene.