Downloads

Bring InContext3D into the software you already model in. Place your design on photorealistic 3D tiles and generate AI renderings without leaving Revit, SketchUp or Rhino.

Choose your plugin

All three plugins run the same viewer as the web app and share one account and one credit balance — install as many as you like. The plugins themselves are free; renders are pay-per-use. See pricing.

Before you install

  • A free InContext3D account. Sign in the first time the viewer opens — use your own email address or your Google account, whichever you prefer. Your models, projects and credit balance are shared with the web app.
  • An internet connection. The viewer streams Google's photorealistic 3D tiles and Cesium ion terrain live.

Installation instructions

Autodesk Revit

Downloads as an installer — one file covering Revit 2024, 2025, 2026 and 2027. No admin rights needed.

  1. Close Revit before installing. Revit holds the add-in files open while it runs, so Setup will ask you to close it first.
  2. Run the downloaded InContext3D_Revit_Setup installer and click through. It installs for your account only, so there is no admin prompt.
  3. If Windows shows “Windows protected your PC”, click More info → Run anyway. SmartScreen shows this for any installer it has not seen often yet.
  4. Start Revit and open a project. The add-in adds its own InContext3D tab to the ribbon, with an InContext3D Viewer panel on it. The viewer pane is also listed under View → User Interface.
  5. Click Place InContext3D, sign in when the viewer opens, and pick where on the globe your model sits.

Setup checks that everything it needs is present before installing, and tells you if anything is missing. To remove it later, use Add or remove programs and search for InContext3D.

SketchUp

Downloads as an .rbz extension package — do not unzip it.

  1. Download the .rbz file and leave it as-is.
  2. In SketchUp, go to Window → Extension Manager.
  3. Click Install Extension (bottom left) and select the downloaded .rbz.
  4. Approve the prompt, then restart SketchUp.
  5. Open it from Extensions → InContext3D, or from the InContext3D toolbar, and sign in when the viewer opens.

Rhino

Downloads as an installer that registers the plugin with Rhino for you. No admin rights needed.

  1. Close Rhino before installing. Rhino holds the plugin file open while it runs, so Setup will ask you to close it first.
  2. Run the downloaded InContext3D_Rhino_Setup installer and click through. It installs for your account only, so there is no admin prompt.
  3. If Windows shows “Windows protected your PC”, click More info → Run anyway. SmartScreen shows this for any installer it has not seen often yet.
  4. Start Rhino 8. The plugin is registered to load at startup — there is nothing to drag onto the window and no load prompt to approve.
  5. Run the InContext3D command to open the viewer panel and sign in. InContext3DSyncView and InContext3DLiveSync align the viewer with your active viewport.

Setup checks for Rhino 8 before installing and tells you if it is missing. If you installed an earlier version by unzipping it and dragging the .rhp on by hand, this replaces that registration automatically — you can delete the old folder afterwards. To remove it later, use Add or remove programs and search for InContext3D.

If something goes wrong

  • The plugin does not appear after installing. Restart the host application — all three load plugins at startup. For Revit, if you previously installed by hand, an older copy may still sit in C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins and load instead of the new one; delete that folder and restart. Setup warns you if it finds one.
  • A blank or white viewer panel. Make sure Microsoft Edge is installed and up to date — the viewer uses its browser engine. Then restart the host application and reopen the panel.
  • Windows warns about the file. For the Revit and Rhino installers, click More info → Run anyway — SmartScreen flags installers it has not seen often yet. For the SketchUp download, right-click the .rbz → Properties → Unblock before installing it; Windows marks anything downloaded from the web.
  • Tiles never load on a corporate network. The viewer streams over HTTPS and falls back from QUIC/UDP to HTTP/2 automatically, but some proxies block the tile hosts outright — ask IT to allow *.googleapis.com and *.cesium.com.
  • Still stuck? Contact us and we will help you get running.