Find your site
Sign in, search your site’s address, then pan, zoom and orbit around it on Google’s 3D Map.
Tutorials
Learn InContext3D in minutes
Short, narrated videos with captions, one task each. Start at the top: each one ends where the next begins, from finding your site to sharing a render with your client.
Part 1
Get your model on the map
Upload and place your model
Upload a GLB from the browser, then move, rotate and scale it onto its real site.
About model importsClear the site
Cut the existing trees and buildings out of the map, so your design sits on a clean site.
About markupsSun and shadows on the real site
Turn on shadows, drag the time of day and change the date to see what your building shades, and when.
Save views for a client deck
Save named views, drop to street level with Place a View, and fly back to any shot in one click.
About saved views
Part 2
AI renders
Your first AI render
Turn a view of your design on its real site into a photorealistic image with AI Studio.
About AI image renderingWrite better prompts
Let Enhance or Refine rewrite your prompt from what is in your view, then generate.
Change just one thing
Mark up a render to change only that part, and keep everything else the same.
Keep the whole set consistent
Use an approved render as a reference, so every new angle keeps the same materials and light.
Render interiors
Render a room inside your model in an interior design style, with the real view outside the window.
Styles, sketches and photos
Pick a Render Style such as Sketch or Watercolor, or start from an uploaded photo instead of the current view.
Turn a render into a video
Animate a render into a short video: pick the video model, the animation type and an end frame.
About AI video renderingYour render gallery
Find every render you have made in the gallery, open it full size and download it.
Part 3
Review and share
Markups and measuring on site
Draw lines, polygons, labels and callouts on the real site, and measure distances on the map.
About markupsSection box
Drag the faces of a section box to cut your model open on its real site.
Share your design with a client
Send a read-only link with an expiry date and an optional password, and see what your client sees.
About project managementProjects and backups
Start a new project, and export or import a project’s data as a backup.
About project management
Part 4
From Revit, SketchUp and Rhino
Revit: publish to the map
SketchUp: publish to the map
Rhino: publish to the map
From the plugin to the browser
Want the plugins now? Get them free on the downloads page