Notes & Issues

Voice transcribing notes requires an Arkio Plus license, and exporting notes as issues requires a Pro or Enterprise license. You can learn more about our paid features and start a free trial within Arkio to try this.

You can add notes to your scene and to frames placed in the scene. These notes behave like Arkio shapes and images that can be placed and glued to the surfaces of other shapes. 

Notes are sized according to your placement scale and can be scaled to other sizes using the edit tool (grab the corners with the controller in VR). Notes will always scale proportionally, ensuring their content remains undistorted.

You can add ownership information to a note and change the color of a note by selecting the different colors at the top of the note. When exporting issues, these colors will be used to indicate their priority, see below. Notes are great for capturing ideas, issues, or feedback, or simply for adding instructions for others viewing your scene.

Navigate between notes

All notes are visible in the Review panel, and from there you can jump to each note. You can filter the categories to only show saved viewpoints, Notes, and Frames placed in the Arkio scene. When you are the host of the meeting, you can guide other users around the notes in your scene by selecting the auto-follow mode in the meeting panel.

Voice transcription

Using voice transcription requires a Plus license or higher. 

You can speak the text you want to add to a note by selecting the microphone icon in the top-right corner of a note. When done, select the mic icon again, and your voice will be transcribed and added to the note. Arkio's voice transcription supports multiple languages, allowing you to include issues in your native language. 

Multilingual

Notes in Arkio can contain multiple languages. Based on the voice transcription of your recognized spoken text, the input field of the notes can contain various languages and character sets. We currently support the following character sets in Arkio notes and imported files: Chinese (simplified), Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and Hebrew.

Export notes as issues

Exporting notes as issues requires a Pro or Enterprise license. 

Notes added to your Arkio scene can be exported as issues to be shared with anyone using the file manager and Arkio Cloud connection. 

After the export, you can open your Arkio cloud page cloud.arkio.is/issues to find an overview of all scenes that have been exported to issues. 

You can open the individual project by clicking its name to see all the issues as rows of data of your notes with the included text, the owner, and the priority derived from the note color: Green: Low, Yellow: Medium, Red: High, Blue: None

You can share the URL of this page with anyone using the Copy URL button on this page. Here is an example of an issue URL page created from Arkio on a file imported from Navisworks.

You can click on the images to inspect the issue in closer detail and switch between all your issues using the arrows on that card.

We will be adding more features to issue exports in upcoming Arkio updates, including the ability to export your issues to BCF and other enhancements for collaboration and issue management. If you have ideas or feedback for this feature, we’d love to hear this