Review panel

The review panel in Arkio has everything you need to explore, inspect and review your Arkio scenes. You can open this panel by clicking the eye icon under your main menu in VR or on the top left of your toolbar in non-VR devices.

The review panel currently has four tabs to switch between: Saved Views, BIM Data, Layer Visibility, and View Settings.

View Settings

The View settings tab enables you to control the active view settings for your current scene, which are visible to everyone in your Arkio meeting. It also shows statistics about your scene size with the number of triangles, props, and materials shown from your current viewpoint.

Edit & View mode

On the View settings tab, you can toggle your current Arkio session between edit and view modes. In View mode, your available UI and tools will be simplified, and editing the model with your hands will no longer be enabled on VR and non-VR devices.

This mode is great when introducing new users to your Arkio scenes without overwhelming them with modeling tools. Scenes shared via the Arkio Cloud can also be set to view mode, allowing you to share your scenes with clients and include all imported geometry for navigation. However, they cannot make any edits or export your designs.

Render mode

Switching Render mode requires a Pro or Enterprise license. You can learn more about our paid features on our website and start a free trial within Arkio to try this.

Using render mode from the view settings tab, you can switch between 4 modes in Arkio:

Normal - Normal rendering of all materials as the default in Arkio or imported models

X-ray - Normal materials turn transparent to look inside your models

Programs - Activates Program mode, to view and assign program data to Arkio shapes for area calculations

White - Temporarily replace all default materials of Arkio with a white material

Other view settings

Shadows control whether real-time sun shadows are enabled. This can help boost your device's performance for large scenes and will affect how many triangles can be actively rendered when viewing large models.

Ambient Occlusion enables the AO soft-edge shadow effect on your device. On mobile devices, this can reduce performance for some models; therefore, we automatically disable the effect when loading large models. You can manually turn these toggles on to see how your models look and how your devices perform with more realistic shadows.

Scene statistics

Scene statistics provide an overview of your scene's complexity on your device. If you wish to learn more about device performance, you can refer to this page for tips on working with large models on mobile devices.

Number of triangles shown/loaded

This number is formatted as ...K/...M where K stands for thousand (1.000) and M for a million (1.000.000) triangles. All triangles are counted as the total of the number of triangles from Arkio geometry, Arkio props, and all imported geometry in the scene.

The first number shows the active number of triangles rendered for your current view on your device. The latter number shows the total number of triangles loaded in the scene. The total number can be significantly higher, as Arkio will automatically adjust the number of triangles visible based on your device's capabilities to prevent performance issues or crashes.

Number of props loaded

Each Arkio 3D prop and imported file counts as an individual mesh prop. The more props you load into your scene, the heavier the rendering will be on mobile devices. If you place a lot of small mesh objects in your scene, performance might be lower. You can remedy this by removing some props or combining imported props into a single larger prop.

Number of materials loaded

The number of materials is important for mobile devices, as they can't handle as many draw calls as typical desktop devices. If you are experiencing low performance on a device with a scene containing few triangles, there may be a performance issue with the total number of materials loaded into Arkio. You can optimize this by cleaning and reducing the number of unique materials in the original models before exporting them to Arkio.