9.7 Export Formats and Sharing

Save Your Edits Before You Export

Export writes from the saved model, not from what is on your screen. If you edit a model and export without saving those edits first, the export contains the original, unedited model, and the work is gone. This is the single most expensive mistake in the pipeline, so lock in the order below before you export anything.

1. Keep your original. In the Model Editor, Save writes to an empty folder, so the source stays intact and your saved edits become a separate copy. In the Scene Editor, use File then Save As to set a clean checkpoint before major edits.
2. Make your edits in the Model Editor's Edit Mode (point-level cropping, color grading) or the Scene Editor (scene cleanup, viewpoints, annotations).
3. Save the edits. In the Model Editor, click Save, or accept the save prompt when you leave Edit Mode. Choose Save, never Discard. In the Scene Editor, use File then Save. This is the step that commits the edits into the model.
4. Verify once. Reopen the saved model and confirm the edits are actually there. Do this the first time on any workstation, so you never have to trust it blindly again.
5. Now export or publish from the saved, edited model. Because you saved first, the deliverable carries the edits.

Choose the Format for the Job

The format decides which software can open the model, how large the file is, and how it renders. Pick it from what the recipient will do with the model, not from a default.

Export Procedures

From My Models, right-click a generated model and choose Export, then the format. LCC2 offers a compression choice.

Export LCC2

1. Right-click the model, choose Export, and select LCC2 from the File Format dropdown.
2. Choose the compression format. SOG (recommended) gives the smallest file, an 8 to 26 times reduction, and is the default for the LCC ecosystem. SPZ gives about a 10 times reduction and is compatible with the Niantic and Scaniverse ecosystem. A single LCC2 file uses one compression format; the two are not mixed.
3. Check additional options as needed. Include Mesh adds collision data. Spatial Recognition results are included only if that feature was enabled during reconstruction.
4. Choose the save location and confirm.

Publish and Share a Web Link

Publishing uploads the model to XGRIDS cloud hosting and returns a link that opens in any modern browser with no install. It is the fastest way to put a finished model in front of a client. Publishing does not replace local export; the model is still retained locally.

Access control

1. Open Publish from the model card in My Models.
2. Choose Password-Free or Encrypted and add an optional description with context such as address, project name, and scope.
3. Click Create to generate the link, then Share to copy the link and password.

Reopen Publish Management from the model card to make secondary changes: edit the URL suffix, switch between Password-Free and Encrypted, change the password, update the description, or list and delist the link without deleting the local file.