Once you’ve successfully uploaded your model to Sketchfab, you should see it on your Sketchfab Dashboard. Hopefully, in the future, they’ll figure out a way to not have that window pop up. I know, it’s not the most graceful part of the upload process, but don’t worry, nothing went wrong. When you click submit, a window will pop up (If you’re running Windows), warning you of a file download.
You should then see “Sketchfab Uploader” in the window.
Navigate to the Sketchup Exporter file you’ve downloaded, and install it. Then, install the extension by clicking on INSTALL EXTENSION. From within Sketchup, go to WINDOW -> PREFERENCES and click on EXTENSIONS.
It’s nice because as long as you’re logged in under your Google account, you’ll never have to fill out a username and password when you go to Sketchfab.) Currently, you can login with your existing Twitter or Google account, making the setup that much easier.
Everything just works! How to upload your model to Sketchfab The thing I really like about Sketchfab is how simple it is to use.
For about $12/mo, you can upgrade to Pro and Sketchfab will host up to 100 models for you. Sketchfab offers a free account that allows you to upload 10 models. Scroll to zoom, and middle mouse button click to pan. Here’s the new Iphone 5, as modeled by Mestaty. (If you use Internet Explorer, you’ll have to install the Chrome frame explorer) Sketchfab embed example: Since Sketchfab is built on WebGL technology, they only need to have a modern browser like Google Chrome, or Mozilla Firefox. The great part is that the end user does not need to download any special plugins.
Once you upload, your model will show up on your dashboard, and you can copy and paste the embed code onto any website. How did I do this? I uploaded my model to my account on Sketchfab. The cool thing was that you could actually interact with the model by orbiting and zooming around. If you noticed in my last post, I had embedded a model of a house I built in Sketchup. Some of the things in this article may not be accurate) (4/14/15 – There have been many updates to SketchFab since this article was written. But what if you wanted to upload you models not so other people could download them, but so they could interact with your model right from their browser? Showcase your 3D models with Sketchfab You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.Most of us know about the 3D warehouse, where you can upload your Sketchup models and share them with the world. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 16th, 2013 at 1:10 pm and is filed under code. Tags: 3d model, javascript, matlab, model, obj, scrape, sketchfab Then you can save it to a obj, off or stl file or just render it in MATLAB: Then in matlab you can issue: V = reshape(U,3,)' View3D._. // 5 means TRIANGLE_STRIP, 4 means TRIANGLES Open up their webgl viewer and extract the following Javascript variables to recover the model vertices and faces. SketchFab has many 3D models, like this bulldog.