Hello everyone, I read in another post that the Babylon viewer in Microsoft Sharepoint has been updated to v7.44.1.
In Sharepoint the version v7.44.1 is now also displayed in the source code, so far everything seems to be fine.
However, I am still faced with the question of how I can use the new features in the SharePoint libraries view at all? I am only offered the button at the bottom with which I can reset the view.
Is there an easy way for a simple user to activate the additional features? The Scene Explorer would be particularly exciting for me.
Kind regards
Nicolas
Hi @nicolas - what you are showing in the screenshot is the Inspector. For a web app using the Viewer, it is possible to use the Inspector with it, but it is not a feature of the Viewer itself (e.g. the Viewer does not pull in Inspector itself, nor does it provide any UI for launching the Inspector). Currently, the Inspector is intended as a dev/diagnostics tool, and not for a production app scenario like SharePoint.
Definitely interesting to consider the possibility of Inspector like functionality in a production app and enabling it the Viewer, but there would be a lot of work to make this happen. Feel free to propose it in the Feature Requests section of the forum though!
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Hi @ryantrem,
Thank you very much for the very quick and detailed answer!
Just so I’m absolutely sure for the feature request, there are 3 components from my point of view:
The Viewer, in which the model is loaded.
The Inspector, with which you can analyze the model and display settings, version statuses and much more information.
The Scene Explorer, in which you can view the scene, nodes, materials, textures, rendering pipelines… etc. can be displayed.
In principle, we would only need the Scene Explorer (to be able to mark individual components/nodes) in addition to the Viewer for working in the Sharepoint - the Inspector would not be needed at all.
Kind regards
Nicolas
I would say it is really just 2 components - the Viewer, and the Inspector (Scene Explorer is part of Inspector). You can find more details here: The Inspector | Babylon.js Documentation
Can you describe your use case a bit more? If you only have the Scene Explorer part, how would you use it? Is it just to look at the scene hierarchy? Or do you want to use it to show/hide individual meshes? Something else?
Hi @ryantrem,
Thank you again for your quick response.
I see, the Scene Explorer is part of the Inspector. 
About the use case:
We are currently looking for a way to make 3D model data from the CAD program Solid Edge available for our customers to view in SharePoint without them having to download and install their own viewer (via Acrobat this would be possible with the 3D PDF format and via the SAP 3D Viewer u3d would be possible - but in this case the customers would have to download something) and without the customers having to download the data from SharePoint.
Currently it works wonderfully to export the data from SolidEdge to .u3d and then via FinalMesh to .dae and then via Blender to .glb and we can then store the .glb data in SharePoint > a really cumbersome way, but this way it is possible that the structure/hierarchy and the object names of the 3D model are taken over from SolidEdge. This is important because we want to provide our customers with a kind of interactive spare parts book, so the customer should (and now to your question why all this):
- be able to open the 3D model in SharePoint-Online directly in the browser
- be able to rotate the 3D model
- be able to view the structure in the tree, including the names of the individual objects (e.g. a specific screw with material number, which the customer can then reorder)
- be able to highlight individual objects (which they have selected in the tree) in the 3D model
- ideally also be able to hide individual parts (to see parts behind them)
In principle, almost everything we need is already there via the Scene Explorer.
However, the Scene Explorer cannot be displayed in SharePoint Online.
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