Hey, guys! This is Aaron. I want to take a look at the 3DWarehouse today. I know several people
are familiar with the 3D Warehouse, most of you guys have probably been there at some point or
another. I just wanted to walk you through how it is laid out, how your account works into it,
and how to get the best from the options in there to search for a model. Let's take a look at the
3D Warehouse. Okay, so here I have the 3DWarehouse open in a browser. The 3D Warehouse can be viewed,
of course, from inside of SketchUp. I generally like to browse from the browser because I get
a bigger screen and a little more options. I can open multiple tabs and look at different
files side by side. So, while it can be accessed from right inside of SketchUp,
you might get a little bit more out of it by looking at it in the browser. Your call, though.
A lot of the functionality is the same regardless of where I look at it, though. The basic front
page is going to have some different collections here; featured models, featured commercial models,
the companies that actually have content up here. There are some links to try SketchUp,
that sort of thing. The front page is nice. It's always fun to come in here and look and see
what kind of models have been uploaded and what the most recent content is.
Let's talk about how to actually get the most from using it. First, I'm going to talk about my own
content. 'Me' as a user not 'me' personally, but how you would look at it. I have two buttons in
the upper-right corner. If I'm not already logged in, this icon right here will bring
me to a login page, where I can login with my Trimble ID. Whatever email you have connected
to your Trimble ID, that login and password are what you will use to login to 3D Warehouse. To
get anything out of 3D Warehouse, you do have to be logged in. Once you are logged in, this allows
you to view your profile information. I can go in and change my username or put an icon up there. I
can also review my public page. So, what does it look like when someone else clicks on my
name and goes to my page and my content. My content is a list of all the things I look at.
This could be different than a public page because my content may include things like
private items. Finally, I have my 3D Warehouse settings, my contact information, how I want to be
notified, when I want to be notified, that sort of information. So, all of the information about how
I interact and how I'm seen on 3D Warehouse is available right here. To the left of that,
is the upload icon. Let's go ahead and upload a quick file. I'm going to go ahead and
grab this file right here. I'm going to just drop it right here on the UI. You can browse,
you can see there is a browse button right here. If you have it, you can drop it right on there.
When I drop a file in there, it's going to upload it, it's going to tell me the name of the SKP
file, but I can, separate from that, specify a title. It doesn't have to match the SKP file.
I can call it whatever I want. I can also give it a description of up to 1,000 characters. I
have a couple of options at the bottom. One is to mark it as a private model. A private model
will show up in my collection to me, but will not show up on my public page or in searches.
Disable comments is also available down here if you just want to share a file,
and don't want to hear back or hear information about what people think of it, you can disable
comments. The most important piece for all of this, though, is - these here are required,
the title is required - but more important is this category. So, if you click on category - I'm
going to come here all the way to the top level. I have these top level categories
that I can pick from. This is going to help 3D Warehouse put this in the right spot so it is
able to be found by the right people. This is "architecture." This is falling water,
so I might actually want to come in here and call it - a "weird and wonderful," or "houses," or
"landmarks." That's really up to me, I can put it wherever I want. But I want to put it in the place
I think it would be most helpful to the people browsing 3D Warehouse. Once I put that in here, I
can go ahead and upload. I'm not going to upload, I've actually already uploaded that file. I'm just
going to come back out here, and I'm going to talk about finding models. We've already looked
at "here's the stuff on the front page." This is good stuff. These are great files to look at, but
these ten or twelve files that are highlighted, may not be what I am actually looking for.
That's of course, where "browse" comes along. So, in here I can come in and search for a specific
model. If there is a specific, or exact, thing I'm looking for, or a general topic, I can put that in
here and it will bring up a list of what I have in there. The other thing you want to look at is
categories. We were talking about categories when I uploaded. Categories for download are just as
important. If I come to "all categories," I can choose, top-level, what I'm looking for. Let's
say I'm going to look for furniture. I'm going to find a sofa or something like that. I'm going to
click on furniture. It's going to update my UI to show me everything that is in the furniture
category. Now, there's a lot of things on 3D Warehouse that are marked as furniture.
It only tells you when you hit 1,000. So we are over one-thousand. I'm sure there's
tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of pieces of furniture. Another thing I can look at
here is over on the left. This is the good stuff. This is the sweet stuff right here. These search
options over here on the left are going to make it the easiest to find exactly what I'm looking for.
They're going to give me the best shot at a collection of materials that I'm interested in.
Over here, I have furniture, that's what were looking at now. But, I can also choose the
sub-category. I'm looking for a couch, so I'm going to choose "residential." Then, that is
going to update to what I want over there. I still have over 1,000, but it's stripped out everything
that was marked as "Business & Institutional" or "Outdoor Furniture," so I should only be
looking at indoor furniture now. I can continue to narrow this, depending on how I want to do it. I
can always come in here and type in a term. If I typed in "couch" it's going to show me all of the
pieces that are inside of the "Furniture" & "Residential" that have the name "couch" in it
somewhere in the description or in the title. I can continue to narrow this by either choosing the
file size. - So, if I know I am going to want to keep this really small and tight, I can drag this
right dot down, or if I'm looking for something fairly detailed, I could drag this left dot over
to get a higher-quality, bigger file - same with polygons. A lot of times, file size is nice,
but that's not always the best solution for a file I'm going to put into a file I am working on.
Polygons make a little more sense. I'm going to move this to under 1,000 or I'm going to keep this
under 200. It's a super small thing. It's not a big piece of what I'm trying to input,
so I can drag it way down and see those super light models. Additional options down here
under "advanced" are where I can choose a dynamic component, if it is geo-located,
if I remember the exact title, this is where I can search title only. Author, or if I have an idea of
when it was created or modified. If you have that specific data and know what you are looking for,
you just have to scroll to the bottom and look under "advanced." One last thing in here,
there is still more sorting going on because I have the option here of choosing models to show
me everything or collections. Collections are just groups, basically just folders full of models.
These have been created by 3D Warehouse users and are collections that meet this criteria:
they're "furniture," "residential," and have the term "couch" in them.
The other two options are products and catalogs. Products are specific models that are uploaded
by manufacturers. These are actual people who have made these items for use in your model.
Catalogs are the product equivalent of collections. Catalogs are collections
of products. These are from specific manufacturers, and these are their couches
in the "furniture," "residential" folder. There you go. That's a high-level overview of the user
interface using 3D Warehouse. Using those tips, you should be able to find what you need in 3D
Warehouse. We hear it a lot of times that there is so much stuff on 3D Warehouse it is hard to find
exactly what you want. If all you do is go in and type a single word in that top toolbar, yeah, you
probably won't find exactly what you're looking for. If you take advantage of all those other
filter options we just walked through, you should be able to find a model that suits your needs.
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