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view part and rotate it withe website or other way
baruch_shlomo
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Is there a simple option to watch the part I designed in onshape, and rotate it in 360 through a website, or any way without the need for viewing software?
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Is there a simple option to watch the part I designed in onshape, and rotate it in 360 through a website, or any way without the need for viewing software?
The short answer is YES.
SEE THE GIFs AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST
But as far as what viewing method is best, well that can depend upon who is doing the viewing.
If you’re trying to get someone’s attention regarding an idea you have, and you know this person is like many nowadays — having a short attention span — then I believe a good way to generate some interest is for you to do all the work, and the person that you’re trying to convince or sell on an idea — to not have to do anything. And this can be done without any type of viewing software – so to speak
On the other hand if you’re dealing with somebody that has a definite interest in what you’re doing and you need to go over the particulars in more detail with them, then doing what Neil talked about is probably one of the best ways to go about it.
But back to that person with a short attention span — the kind of person that would probably click away from your website within half a second unless you show them something IMMEDIATELY. With that person, I believe GIFs could be the answer to at least getting them to start to look at what it is that you’re doing. With GIFs, they don’t have to press any buttons or try to figure out how to rotate around something. There’s not a doggone thing they have to do. A GIF is like an animated billboard that starts playing by itself, and within a split second, they’re starting to get an idea of what it is you’re trying to convey
The GIFs I show below in this post, are done on an iPhone. If you have a desktop computer, you can make a lot better GIFs than I’m doing here on my iPhone
Another thought. You can offer people both. You can have GIFs, and you can have a link to your Onshape document where they could rotate around it and zoom in and out on it as much as they need to or would like
A nice thing about GIFs is that they’re easy to post in forums like this one. You can’t directly post a video in this forum. You’d have to post your video in YouTube or something like that and then have a link to it. But you can post GIFs just like you post images.
Also, GIFs are easy to send in text messages. So they have some conveniences about using them