How your 3D Model is made

Your 3D Model is built from oblique photos — pictures the drone takes at an angle rather than straight down. Because the camera sees the site from the side as well as from above, the model captures the sides of buildings and vertical surfaces far better than a top-down map can.

When to use it:

• Inspecting building facades, walls, signage, or tall structures.
• Any time the important detail is on a vertical face that a straight-down view flattens out.

How to open it: click the 3D Model tab (the stacked-boxes icon). It streams in progressively — detail sharpens as it loads and as you zoom, so give it a beat to resolve.

3D Model or 3D Mesh?

Some projects also carry a 3D Mesh tab (the box icon): a textured model of the site delivered as a single file. You spin, tilt, and zoom it the same way. It loads all at once instead of streaming, and on a phone it doesn't render — the project's own team gets a download there instead.

Tips

• Not every project includes a 3D Model — the tab appears only when that output exists for your flight.
• For hard measurements and elevations, jump to the 2D Aerial Map or Point Cloud; this view is about seeing the site, not measuring it.
• Found a great frame? Share links carry the exact camera angle, so the person you send it to lands where you did.