Shapr3D Webviewer

Guess this explains why trying to share my whole house designs doesn’t work. The ‘creating link’ gets struck part way and as there isn’t a cancel option I have to quit and restart Shapr (on ipad).

Webviewer is great and works for some of my models but not all.

I did read your post above and appreciate the issues with physical size of the model but I’ve had issues with some small models with few textures applied.

https://collaborate.shapr3d.com/v/Ghy04-xYgkFv64edu6bWb

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Me too - annoying, go to the edit menu and hit delete but reset seems to clear the problem. That also works.

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The webviewer share dialogue says only the first 5 designs are free. There is no indication of the cost to use this feature beyond the initial 5 designs anywhere on the Shapr3d site.

Sharing is free for as many links as you want. Only embedding is limited to 5 links, because for high volume websites our hosting costs could be very high. In these cases we reach out directly to our customers to discuss how we could help them.

Thank you Istvan
A tight limit on the number of embeds is difficult.
Is this choice due to the proprietary shaders for visualise?
Can this functionality be implemented without embedding it on Shapr3D servers?
I already use Sketchfab and Marmoset Toolbag & Simlab Composer, both of which have good webGL output with necessary HTML, and Marmoset Toolbag even has a WordPress plugin.

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We might lift that limitation, and tweak the pricing to allow more embeds, but initially we wanted to be cautious, to orevent our server costs blowing up. It’s a very popular feature.

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I love this feature, but is there an option in the works to lower the resolution of the shared design? I would like to show the design, but make it impossible to use it as a template for someone to copy the design. Thanks, Poul

Waaaoo I would like a tutorial on this :flushed: :ok_hand::+1::+1::star::star::star::star::star::star::star:

Hi,

Are there still plans to increase the limit on model size. Using Shapr for my architectural work, all of my models are too big for this feature but I often get asked by clients if there is a way of them viewing models themselves.

Thanks

Hi,

There is no limit on the size for the Webviewer.

The problem lies with the devices capabilities. Especially on the mobile side, the amount of memory a browser tab can use, is very limited, and we can’t really do much about it at this point.

Since the file size is closely related to the physical size of the models, one workaround is to create a copy of the project on the Designs page, scale down the model, and share the scaled down version.

Thanks Laci,

I will give the scaling suggestion a go.

Not that I know how these things work but surprised that the dimensions of a model relate to file size. Whether the model is in millimetres or meters I would have thought the data is the same with the only difference being a scale factor to suit the units being used.

Thanks

Hi again,

I tried scaling a house model down to 1% of its original size but it made no difference and the file size actually increased slightly.

What is the limit on file size? In this instance the file was just over 17MB.

Thanks again.

We need to bake bigger textures, and the vast majority of the file size of the exported format for Webviewer comes from them.

You can also reduce the file size a lot by not using materials, just coloring the default material.

Which format did you check?

There is no limit on file size.

Ah ok. I will try without textures.

“Which format”? I just tried to create a link but it just got stuck on trying to create a link. Should I be trying to export instead?

I mean, how did you measure the 17mb file size?

If you are on iPad, it is also possible depending on the device to run out of available memory during the export.

With regard to the file size I exported a .shapr file and checking in the File app on iPad (I am iPad only).

I had wondered about the memory as I’m on a previous generation iPad. Hoping to upgrade to one of the newer versions soon. Which hopefully will help.

Thanks again for your advise.