Program help

Impress

This chapter will tell you how to use the Impress web service in order to view and share content from pCon.planner.

You can read more on how to transfer CAD models and AR content from pCon.planner to impress in the chapter Share.

Note: On our Youtube channel you will find a video on this topic

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In pCon.planner 8.12, sharing your designs with impress has become even easier and more powerful. With just a few clicks, you can share individual products, entire room layouts, or custom objects – either as 3D models in the browser or in Augmented Reality (AR) on a smartphone.

In this tutorial, we'll show you step-by-step how to create a share link, how to display product information, and how impress can support your daily design and customer communication processes.

About Impress

This EasternGraphics service is an easy way to sharing content from pCon.planner with other people.

Impress is web based, free of charge and can be used on both computers and tablets quite independently of the operating system. See this video to get a first impression of impress.

Using Impress

To use Impress, you need a Dropbox or Microsoft OneDrive user account which will be used as the storage backend for your presentation content. This lets you decide for yourself who shall have access to your content. In impress, you enter the public file link to your respective media file.

In addition, alternative links to impress content, such as from a company's own server, also work.

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Media Types

You can use panoramic images, Multi Content Pictures, Multi Content Panoramas as well as 3D models with impress. Also use impress to share augmented reality (AR) files from pCon.planner for viewing on Android or iOS devices.

Panoramic images of your plans can be created in the Image dialog of pCon.planner. impress opens spherical panorama images filed as PNG or JPG.

Multi Content Pictures as well as Multi Content Panoramas are generated in pCon.planner and can be transferred to impress in the EIMG format.

3D models are displayed when you upload PEC files into impress.

Send augmented reality content to AR-enabled mobile devices using a shared link. AR files cannot be viewed directly in impress.

Sharing Content

Share: Use the Share feature to generate a link that can be sent to partners, customers and friends.

Embed: Click Embed to receive a code snipped that can be used to integrate your media in a blog post or post them to a web site.

Snapshot: Create an image of the current view by clicking Snapshot.