Walkthroughs & 360 tours

The walkthrough path puts the walked route into the viewer, so anyone can walk the scan at eye level and see where every station is. The 360 tour adds the real camera photos at those stations — stand in the scan and look around in the actual photo. Both are optional and upload from the scan's file dialog, like everything else — but if your export has them, upload them: they are most of what makes a shared scan feel like being there.

Two things matter for a synced tour: shoot the 360 video in timelapse mode at 0.5 seconds per frame (this matches the SHARE3DCAM scanner's default 3DGS image-capture interval), and start recording before the scan starts, stop after it ends. Everything else is up to how you like to capture.

What works well for us: an Insta360 X5 mounted on a hard hat, so both hands stay free for the scanner. Since your phone is connected to the scanner during capture, control the camera without it — either enable voice control on the X5 and start it by speaking, or use a small Bluetooth remote clipped where you can reach it.

Upload the export's trajectory.txt. It appears immediately — no processing — and adds the route and minimap to the viewer.

Levels are detected automatically from the walkthrough path — nothing to set up. A scan with only a 360 tour uses its station heights instead, and a point cloud alone counts as one level (the height slider still cuts to any floor by hand).

When a scan has more than one level, the minimap gains a level bar— one button per floor, top floor on top. The map shows the level you're standing on, switches as you take the stairs, and clicking another level takes you there. Plan view and orbit get their own level bar (1 · 2 · All) that shows one floor at a time. Single-level scans show none of this.

Upload the 360 video (MP4, INSV, or MOV) and its ImgPose.txt — both are required, in either order. After processing, stations place themselves automatically along the walk.

The ImgPose.txt comes from the same capture's export — see Recording the walk above for how to shoot the video.

Upload 360 photos (JPG) instead. That makes a manual tour— the photos arrive unplaced, and you position each station yourself in the viewer's 360 editor.

Part of tour processing is a privacy pass: people caught in your capture get their faces blurred automatically before any photo is stored. There's nothing to turn on — it runs on every station of every tour, so bystanders never end up identifiable in your shared scans.

The automatic pass is deliberately careful — someone seated, far away, or half-hidden can slip under it. For those, open the station in the 360 view while the tour panel is open and press Blur mask at the bottom: click what you want masked and a disc appears — drag its ring to resize it, then press Apply. The mask becomes part of the stored photo — it can't be removed later, so place it with care.

To use a finished tour, walk up to any station in the viewer — or pick one from the tour panel — and open its 360. You're standing in the real photo: drag to look around, use the arrows at the screen edges to step to the next or previous station, and Exit 360 (top right) returns you to the model. The corner map shows where you're standing the whole time.

Press Align on a station. Two tools — switch between them any time:

Pick points — the preferred method. The screen splits: model on the left, photo on the right. Click a recognizable feature in the photo, then the same spot in the model. Two pairs place the station — a third makes the check stronger — then press Place & check: the station moves there and verifies itself. Step to the next station and repeat.

Overlay — the quick check when a station is nearly right. The photo ghosts over the model; the slider on the right blends between them. Adjust Heading, Elev, Move, and Level until walls sit on walls — or press Auto to solve it from the photo.

The align button at the bottom of the tour panel aligns and verifies every station automatically — the alternative to fixing them one by one. The arrow beside it picks how it runs:

• Quick pass — free. A fast estimate on your device: it places every station and flags the ones that need review.
• Align (this device) — the full job on your device: every station measured and certified. Keep the tab open while it works.
• Align (cloud) — the same full job, done by our servers. Close the tab; come back to a finished tour.

The two full runs give identical results — the cloud costs more credits for the convenience, not for quality. The line under the button shows the credit cost of the selected mode for your tour before anything starts; your monthly allowance is on the Account page. Quick pass and fixing stations by hand are always free.

Two safety nets: nothing is permanent until you press Save tour, and Reset returns every station to the scan path if you want a clean start.