What it is

The 3D Model is a photoreal, textured 3D reconstruction of your site — think of it as a digital sculpture wrapped in real photography from the flight. Surfaces are solid, so buildings, terrain, stockpiles, and structures all read the way they do in real life. It's the most intuitive way to understand a property without being there.

When to use it

• Presentations & stakeholder buy-in — spin the whole site on a screen in a meeting.
• Getting oriented — see how buildings, roads, and terrain relate before diving into measurements.
• Sharing a wow-factor view — it looks great and needs zero technical background to enjoy.

When you need precise elevations or to see through vegetation, reach for the Point Cloud instead. When you want to measure areas and distances on a flat map, use the 2D Aerial Map.

How to open it

1. Open your project from your dashboard (or your share link).
2. If the project has more than one flight, pick the date you want from the scan picker.
3. In the row of tabs across the top of the viewer, click 3D Model (the box icon).
4. Give it a moment — the model streams in during the loading screen, then you're free to explore.

Getting around

Use the camera mode control (top-right of the viewer) to switch how you move:

• Orbit — rotate around the site. Drag to spin, scroll/pinch to zoom, right-drag to pan. This is the default and the easiest.
• Fly — free flight with an on-screen joystick and look controls, for swooping through the scene.
• Tripod — plant the camera in one spot and look around 360°.
• Walk — drop to eye level and stroll the site on foot.

Tips

• On a phone? Heavy 3D models show a Download button instead of rendering live — phone memory can't safely hold the full model. Open it on a laptop or desktop for the full experience, or try the Gaussian Splat tab, which is built to run smoothly on mobile.
• Lost your bearings? Switch back to Orbit mode and zoom out to re-center on the whole site.
• Found a great angle? Use the share/link tools in the toolbar to send someone this exact view — the camera position travels with the link.