Sharing Your Experience

You can share an experience stored in your dashboard, or take a snapshot of your experience then share it on 3DSwym.

This task shows you how to:

See Also
Capturing Images
Saving Your Experience

Share Your Experience Through the Dashboard

You can store your experience for later use. Once saved in your dashboard, the experience can also be shared with other users.

  1. Save your experience.
  2. Optional: From the top bar, select > Share Dashboard.
    This lets you share a dashboard with users belonging to the same platform, by email, or by generating a link that you can share with anyone.
  3. Optional: Select either:
    • Share a copy of this dashboard by email with the following users to share it with a limited number of members. You can find a member by typing his name.
    • Share a copy of this dashboard by link with anyone to generate a public link. You can share this link using any collaborative tool like an email client.
    • Manage members of this dashboard to add, remove or update the members of the dashboard.
  4. Optional: Click Share.
    If you have selected one of the first two choices, an email with a personal link is sent to the selected members or a public link is generated. If you have selected the third choice, the Manage Dashboards dialog box lets you manage the members of the current dashboard.

    Whatever your choice, the shared copy has a link to the 3DSpace document containing the shared experience. This means that changes made afterwards to the experience in the same document (that is, through Save City Experience ) will be available to all users having access to the dashboard or to a shared copy.

    Tip: To freeze the sharing of the experience in its current state, choose one the following methods:
    • Share a copy, then run Save City Experience As... in the original document. The original document will then point to a new one saved from the current state.
    • Load the same experience in a new widget instance (so that only the Save City Experience As... command is available for saving).
    • Set the document's lifecycle state to Released. This means that a new revision will have to be created to save new changes.

Share Your Experience Through 3DSwym

You can upload a snapshot of your viewer on 3DSwym.

Before you begin: The size of the generated snapshot is the current size of the widget. Therefore, it is recommended to maximize the widget, or to switch to Full screen mode prior to running the command.
  1. From the Tools section of the action bar, click Share Snapshot .
    A snapshot displaying the current content of the 3D viewer is generated and displayed in the Share Snapshot to 3DSwym dialog box. This snapshot does not show annotations or UI elements (localisator, tree, and so on).
  2. In the Content area, define the appropriate options:
    OptionDescription
    Media Lets you specify the content type for the published image. To do so, click an item from the list:
    • Media
    • Post
    • Question
    • Idea.
    Enter title... Lets you enter a title for the snapshot to be uploaded on 3DSwym.
    Note: This box is mandatory.
    Enter message... Lets you enter a description or comments for this publication.
    Community Lets you select the community where the image is to be accessible.

    Important: Choose an existing community to which you have access, otherwise an error message is displayed.

  3. In the Settings area, define the appropriate options:
    OptionDescription
    FormatLets you select the image format:
    • JPEG
    • PNG
    DimensionsLets you define the image dimensions (in pixels):
    • 1920 x 1080 px (16:9)
    • 1440 x 1080 px (4:3)
    • 1080 x 1080 px (1:1).
    CustomLets you define your own dimensions. To do so, specify the appropriate values in the Width and Height boxes.
  4. Click OK.
    You are notified when the snapshot has been successfully uploaded.
  5. To access 3DSwym, use one of the following two methods:
    • From the top bar, click Communities.
    • From the Compass, click Social and Collaborative Apps , and then click 3DSwym .
    At the center of the 3DSwym home page, the latest content published in your communities is displayed.

The image is available in the community you selected.