The toolbar is the horizontal bar across the top of the viewer window. It gives you quick access to panel controls, favorited bookmarks and sequences, and viewer-wide actions like scene management and settings.
The toolbar is divided into three areas: panel buttons on the left, favorited controls in the center, and viewer controls on the right.
Info
If the window becomes too narrow to fit everything, controls move into the overflow menu (three dots) in a fixed order: the Open New Scene and Options icons move in first, then the remaining right-side viewer controls as a group, then Set Views, then sequences (one at a time), and finally bookmarks. The panel buttons on the left never collapse. Any control that moves into the overflow menu remains fully usable there.
Left: Panel Buttons
Four buttons control the side panels:
- Full Viewer (landscape icon): Close the side panel and use the full window for the 3D view
- Scene Properties (globe icon): Open Scene Properties (set views, Z scale, snapshots)
- Model Tree (hierarchy icon): Open the Model Tree (individual object controls)
- Interactive Tools (toolbox icon): Open the Interactive Tools panel (probe, measure, select)
Center: Favorites
Favorites are controls that the scene author decided were critical for interacting with the model. By placing them front and center on the toolbar, the author ensures you can use them without needing to open any side panels.
The types of controls that can be favorited are:
- Set Views: Preset camera positions (Scene, Plan, Fit, SE, SW, NE, NW)
- Bookmarks: Navigation controls to step through bookmarks
- Sequences: Controls to step through sequence states
Tip
The live model below includes bookmarks and sequences: try using the toolbar favorites to step through them.
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You can customize the toolbar by favoriting or unfavoriting controls yourself. Look for the star icon next to set views, bookmarks, and sequences in the Scene Properties and Model Tree panels. A filled star means the control is favorited; click it to remove it from the toolbar, or click an empty star to add it.
Right: Viewer Controls
- Scene Information (i): Display information about the scene, if provided by the author
- Help (?): Show help and keyboard shortcuts
- Full Screen: Make the viewer fill the entire screen. Press Escape to exit.
- Language: Change the display language. Only shown while the language is set to Automatic. The viewer defaults to your browser’s language setting, falling back to English. Supported languages: English, Chinese (Simplified), and German.
- Scene Management (earth icon): Open the Scene Management menu to add, replace, or close scenes and configure multi-viewport options
- Open New Scene (refresh icon) and Options (gear icon): Browse for a different scene file, or open the Options dialog. When the toolbar has enough room, these appear directly on the toolbar as icons. Otherwise, they move into the overflow menu described below.
- Overflow menu (three dots, “More toolbar items”): Appears only when something doesn’t fit on the toolbar. Normally holds Open New Scene and Options, plus any other controls that no longer fit. When the window is wide enough for everything to appear directly on the toolbar, this menu is hidden entirely.