Orbit 3DM Plugin for QGIS

This page describes the Orbit 3D Mapping Plugin for QGIS.

See Requirements for Orbit 3DM Viewer and Plugins.

Download and unzip the Orbit Plugin installation package from the Orbit website, https://orbitgt.com/3dm-plugin/.

• Start QGIS
• Open QGIS Plugin Manager.
• Choose “Install from ZIP”, select the downloaded orbit3dmapping.zip file and click the “Install Plugin” button.
• Accept the “Security Warning: Continue?” pop-up confirmation.
• The “Plugin installed successfully” pop-up confirmation appears, the Orbit toolbar is added.

The Orbit Plugin requires the installation of Python's WebSockets package.

At first use of the Orbit Plugin, accept the “The 3D Mapping plugin needs to install some additional software” pop-up confirmation.
If QGIS is installed on “C:\Program Files\” additional steps might be required to install the Phyton's WebSockets package.
Complete the actions as suggested in the pop-up notification and run the “Install_plugins” batch file as administrator.

This plugin can be installed for offline use, see Plugin configuration for Local Viewer SDK.

To save the measurement results from the 3DM Viewer into the host layer, the following internal names of the measurement properties should be used as attributes of the host layer:

• PROPERTY_X = “x”
• PROPERTY_Y = “y”
• PROPERTY_Z = “z”
• PROPERTY_DISTANCE_Z = “distanceZ”
• PROPERTY_DISTANCE_XY = “distanceXY”
• PROPERTY_DISTANCE_XYZ = “distanceXYZ”
• PROPERTY_LENGTH_Z = “lengthZ”
• PROPERTY_LENGTH_XY = “lengthXY”
• PROPERTY_LENGTH_XYZ = “lengthXYZ”
• PROPERTY_HEIGHT = “height”
• PROPERTY_AREA_XY = “areaXY”
• PROPERTY_AREA_XYZ = “areaXYZ”
• PROPERTY_SLOPE = “slope”
• PROPERTY_SLANT = “slant”
• PROPERTY_CLEARANCE = “clearance”
• PROPERTY_SPAN = “span”
• PROPERTY_WIDTH = “width”
• PROPERTY_RADIUS = “radius”
• PROPERTY_VOLUME = “volume”
• PROPERTY_BASELINE1 = “baseline1”
• PROPERTY_BASELINE2 = “baseline2”
• PROPERTY_ERROR_XYZ = “errorXYZ”
• PROPERTY_ERROR_XY = “errorXY”
• PROPERTY_ERROR_Z = “errorZ”
• PROPERTY_HEADING = “heading”
• PROPERTY_ANGLE = “angle”