Viewer and View Settings

This page documents the 3DM Viewer Settings.
3DM Viewer > Sidebar > Settings Icon

The Settings Browser allows the user to make changes to the behaviour of the Viewer, Sidebars, Views and View Gestures. The goal is to allow the user to configure the workspace to his liking, while keeping the Viewer UI as simple as possible.

In a Publication, access to Settings can be restricted.

General settings are about the viewer on a global level.

• Application: Styling, ground height, sidebar position, …
• Search : Geocoding engine, linear reference resource, …
• Views : Display viewing direction, Show basemap on 3D, Stereo viewing, …

• Sidebar: Resource sidebar settings
• Floors: Enable, Resource Group behaviour, …
• Timeline: Enable, Resource Group behaviour, Presentation settings, …

Floor Settings are only available when there is at least one resource with a floor open.
Timeline Settings are only available when there is at least one resource with a collection time range.

• General: Show mesh, Show pointcloud, …
• Gestures: Allow overzoom

• General: Overlay pointcloud, Overlay mesh, Get alternative images, …
• Per Image View Mode:
  • The Photo search settings used when searching for a best photo using a spatial position.
  • View Depth for Vector Data

• Gestures: See View Navigation and Keystrokes
• Synchronize: View synchronization settings

• General: Measure technique, CRS, …
• Hover Display: Enable hover, transparency, …
• Hover Pointcloud Query: Hover query parameters
• Results: Auto-save, Auto-copy, display units, accuracy, …

• General: Selection Color, Auto-Focus, …

This menu is not available in a Publication, because it makes structural changes to how a publication can be used, which is not something an end-user should be doing.

Allows you to set the availability of actions in the View Action Menu.

• Move View
• View Metadata
• Image Play-Through
• Photo Navigation By Sequence
• Photo Navigation By Relevance
• Rotate in Photo Group
• Video Player
• …

This menu is not available in a Publication, because it makes structural changes to how a publication can be used, which is not something an end-user should be doing.

The Quick settings panel is available from the sidebar, and can have up to 5 Toggle Settings.

Quick settings can be useful because :

• A setting is frequently used
• A setting is useful to the user, but the user does not have access to the full Settings panel. This can occur when preparing a publication.