Introducing 3d Viewer

I think the 3D viewer icon needs to be more noticeable.
I hadn't seen this thread, had loaded a new product, went to preview it, noticed the 3D thumbnail was missing, but never noticed the little icon.
I was about to post a complaint then found this thread.
I needs to be bolder/bigger or maybe pulse twice or something.

Also, it sometimes gets 'selected' when trying to drag it. Looks like this: (Firefox)

Is there any way to remove the 3D Preview or to use the old version for my shop items?
The new one doesn't work properly most of the time for me.

Haven't seen it work once yet. Using Waterfox, Chrome and Edge browsers.

Edit: Working fine in Edge now.

The 3D viewer is certainly interesting. But for a really tiny model it looks extremely pixelated and low quality. I can see it discouraging some potential buyers.

Is it possible to embed this 3D viewer in your own website (like it was possible before)?

3D scanning software like 123D Scan needs small niose to track the camera position relative to the object.
With the 3D renderer, it looks like the texture is maped on the object also relative to the camera position. So for the scanning program, there is nothing to hold on to for tracking becouse the texture is differend every time you'll tilt the object

Bump.

Would be nice to know what technology is used to deliver the renderings in the browser & if it can be used to embed 3d models on external sites

Bueller?

To protect your designs, they use a backend engine to render the image for the angle that you have selected, and deliver each frame to you as a JPG. The rendering is not happening in your browser. This keeps your source model private, always on their server, with only rendered images of it being delivered to the the customer.
Unfortunately, that means you can't use the same viewer software on your site.

There are browser-based STL viewers (such as the one available from threejs.org) but they send your STL to the end customer.. not a safe way to maintain your files.
Here's an example: https://stonysmith.com/shapeways/stlviewer/?id=dragon

can shapeways have a separate upload for inches ?

i uploaded 43 items , all accidentally in centimeters. now they are all too small............... thx