Put a 3D model on a rental piece

A rental piece can carry a 3D model as well as its photos. It can come from a scan made in the Florio iPhone app, or from a file you already have, such as an export from Polycam or a model a designer made. Once it is on the piece and switched on, shoppers see it in the piece’s photo row on your storefront, open it to turn and zoom it, and on a phone place it in their own room at its real size.

Add a model from a file

Open the piece in Florio, then under its photos choose Add 3D Model. Drop in a USDZ file, a GLB file, or both at once:

• The GLB is what the storefront shows. Keep it under 25 MB; a few megabytes is plenty.
• The USDZ is what an iPhone or iPad places in a room. Keep it under 40 MB for that; a full-detail file up to 250 MB is kept for your own use.

Polycam and most 3D tools export both. Either file alone is accepted: with only a GLB the storefront works but a phone has nothing to place; with only a USDZ the phone works but the storefront has nothing to show until you add a GLB.

Each file goes straight to storage, with a progress bar. When the GLB arrives Florio reads the model’s size and compares it with the piece’s recorded height, width and depth. If a side is off by more than an inch or three percent, the new tile reads Check size and says which side. A file that is not what its name says, or over its limit, is refused with the reason, and you can choose the files again.

The 3D tile in the gallery

The model appears as one more tile among the piece’s photos, marked 3D model, showing a still of the model itself. Florio renders that still within a minute of the model arriving, from the angle the viewer opens on; until then the tile shows a cube. By default the tile sits after the studio shots and before the in-situ shots. Drag it anywhere, or use the arrows; the storefront shows the gallery in the same order.

Click the tile’s image to open the model: drag to turn, scroll to zoom, with buttons to zoom in, zoom out and reset the view. Beside it you see the size table, where the model came from, which files it has and whether it is in the store.

A scan does not know which side of a piece is the front, so the automatic still may show a sofa side-on. Turn and zoom the model to the view you want and choose Use this view as the thumbnail: that becomes the tile in Florio and in the store, and the viewer opens on exactly that angle for everyone, so the model takes the thumbnail’s place without a jump. Back to the automatic view forgets your choice. A piece with no photos yet shows the still as its main storefront image.

The tile’s actions: Replace file adds a new file as a new model, Remove sets the model aside, and the arrows move it. A piece keeps every model it has had; the one it shows is the newest, unless you pick another on the iPhone app’s 3D Model card.

Show it in the store

A model is never shown to shoppers until you switch it on. On the tile or in the model’s window, turn on Show in store and confirm. The piece must be published as well. Turning it off takes the model off the storefront at once. One model per piece can be shown; switching a newer one on takes the older one off.

What shoppers see

On the storefront the piece’s thumbnail row carries the 3D tile with a 3D mark, showing the same still as in Florio, and a See it in 3D link under the row. Both open the model in a window where the shopper drags to turn and scrolls or pinches to zoom; the window opens on the still and the model appears in its place. On an iPhone, iPad or Android phone the window offers View in Your Space, which opens the camera and places the piece at its real size. Catalog cards carry a small 3D mark for pieces with a model.

The piece’s Storefront visits card counts how often shoppers opened the 3D view and how often they placed it in a room, beside the printed spec sheet’s scans.

Models from the iPhone app

A piece scanned with Scan in 3D in the Florio iPhone app gets its three files from the Mac build: the full model, the web file and the phone file. Scans built before this update have only the full file; the tile reads No web file yet, and Build Again in the Mac app’s 3D Queue makes the other two. The iPhone app’s 3D Model card shows uploaded models too, marked Uploaded, with View in AR when the model has a phone file.

Send a Polycam scan from your iPhone

If you scan with Polycam, you do not need to export to a computer. Name the capture with the piece number somewhere in it, for example “Sofa FU-0142”, then export it from Polycam as USDZ, GLTF or OBJ and choose Florio in the share sheet. Florio opens with the file:

• When the file name holds a piece number, Florio shows that piece with its photo; tap Add to this piece. Two numbers in the name give you a choice. With no number, or a number Florio does not know, find the piece by name or number.
• A GLTF or OBJ export is a zip; Florio unpacks it first, so the share sheet shows “Unpacking the model” for a moment. A zip without a model is refused.
• The piece’s 3D Model card shows the file sending with a bar. Keep Florio open until it finishes. Off Wi-Fi the file waits; tap Send over cellular to send it now. The file’s name stays on the model as From file.
• Share the USDZ, then the GLTF zip of the same scan: the second one says “Joins the model added …” and the piece ends up with one model that works on the iPhone and on the web.
• Shared while signed out, the file waits for you to sign in. If you have several accounts, the sheet names the one it will add to, with Switch beside it.

The card also shows the model’s still once it is rendered, and Over 40 MB when a USDZ is too big to place in a room on the iPhone (the full file is still kept).