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A drawn floor can also get a 3D view: the floor plan raised into walls and floors and painted with the floor’s own 360° photos. Visitors open the Floor plan box as before and switch it between 2D and 3D; in 3D they can spin the model and tap a dot to fly down into that spot. On a floor with an up-to-date 3D view, visitors also walk from room to room in 3D when they follow the arrows or tap a dot on the 2D plan (unless the arrows are set to fade).

How to add one:

  1. Draw the floor first (see above).
  2. In Street View Arrows, the floor’s Floor Plan block offers Build 3D view…. The guided AI Auto Connect offers it too, in its Floor plan & 3D view step: there it builds by itself once the floors are drawn, and is paid for at Apply.
  3. The dialog shows the price and your AI edit balance. Build paints the 3D view on your computer (a minute or two, mostly getting the photos), saves its pictures, and only then takes the AI edits. If anything fails before that, nothing is charged.
  4. The dialog then shows the saved 3D view: drag to turn it. It also says whether visitors can open it (see below).
  5. Afterwards the block offers View 3D view (to look at it again), Rebuild 3D view… and Remove 3D view. Removing takes the 3D view away from visitors; Undo puts it back.

Where visitors see it: in the Floor plan box, opened from your tour’s Floor plan button. If your tour doesn’t have that button yet, the dialog and the Floor Plan block say so and offer Add a Floor plan button: one click adds it to your theme (where the theme has room for one; see Can visitors see the drawing? above). A button made by hand in the Theme tab with “Show floor plans” starts with no floor plans of its own, so use this one.

Cost and limits:

  • 1 AI edit per scene whose dot stands on the floor, shown before you build.
  • A 3D view takes up to 60 scenes on a floor. A floor with more keeps its flat floor plan drawing, and the 3D option says so.
  • Every build is charged, rebuilds included. The same build saved again within a day is free.
  • It needs a computer: a phone or a tablet can’t build a 3D view, and the dialog says so before anything runs. Visitors can open it on phones too.
  • Scenes with flat photos, or rooms with many photos, may not all show in the painting, but every scene on the floor counts toward the price.

When the floor changes:

  • Walls drawn again: visitors see the flat floor plan until you rebuild; the block says so with the price of a rebuild.
  • Photos or dots moved: visitors keep the 3D view; the block offers a rebuild for a closer match.

From a floor plan you uploaded (shelves included):

A floor whose plan is a drawing you uploaded, such as a store’s CAD plan, can get a 3D view too, with its shelving, counters and displays standing in it. Visitors still see your drawing as the flat plan.

  1. Place the floor’s scenes on your drawing, then press Build 3D view… in its Floor Plan block.
  2. The walls, doors and shelves in your drawing are found for you (free), then shown over your drawing in Check the walls and shelves. Remove what isn’t there, draw what was missed with Add shelving or a counter (B), and set each type’s height (shelving starts at 1.8 m, counters at 1 m). Measure a length you know (M) sets the drawing’s scale: drag along a dimension or the scale bar and type its real length. If the floor has no scale yet, you’re asked to measure before you go on.
    • A scan, a photo of a plan or a colour plan? Press Find with AI (3 AI edits) in the check: AI finds the rooms, doors, windows, shelving, counters and furniture in it and puts them in place of what’s there. Undo brings back what you had. You pay only when it finds rooms, and finding the same drawing again within an hour is free. If your drawing prints its sizes, its scale is read from them; measure a length you know to check it.
  3. Use this layout saves it and goes on to the build, priced like any 3D view: 1 AI edit per scene on the floor. A floor traced from a drawing takes up to 200 scenes.
  4. Edit shelves and walls… opens the check again later. Your dots never move: they stay where you put them on your drawing.

The free check works best with clean CAD exports; for scans, photos and colour plans use Find with AI. Uploading another picture for the floor needs a new check.