Secondary menus

Object and materials drawers

The left and the right sides of the main menu have expandable drawers for other geometry and materials. You can open this drawer by clicking on the tab on the left and right sides of the menu if the Create and/or Paint/Sketch tools are selected. Menu drawers can be detached from the menu and placed around you if desired (hover over the drawer back and keep the trigger pressed to pull it away).

The drawers have been categorized using tabs and contain individual props and materials, which you can select by clicking or dragging them into your favorites in the center of your circular menu. The last create tab shows your custom-imported 3D models.

Additional tools from the bottom tab

AI camera - Allows you to take AI-enhanced pictures and place them in the scene as frames

Review panel - Access your saved views, BIM data, and view settings for your active scene

Start panel - Access to all your main workflows, see Home panel below.

Meeting - start or enter into a meeting with up to 24 users

Files - access the file browser that allows you to view, duplicate and export your scenes

Settings - general settings of the app, like units, scaling and snaps

Note - Add sticky notes in the scene where you can leave textual info

Measure - Measure any by drawing a 2-point line between objects in Arkio

Section - Place a section plane in the scene to cut all arkio and imported geometry

Sun study - Adjust the current time of day. Affects the lighting conditions and sky

Start panel

The start panel provides quick access to some of Arkio's main tools and features. From here, you can open tutorial scenes and watch tutorials from Getting Started. You can see what's new in Arkio, access some of its popular features, or view sample projects.

You can also open your scenes or a meeting to jump right into the action.