360° Panorama: immersive presentations your client can explore

Mark the wall and where you stand: SketchUp captures the whole room and the AI returns, in about 30 seconds, a spherical panorama your client explores through a link, with nothing to install.

The 360 tab turns a room in your model into a photorealistic spherical panorama that your client opens through a link on a computer or phone and explores by rotating the image. You don't need to render anything first: you mark the wall and where you stand, and the panorama is ready in about 30 seconds, for 5 credits.

It happens in two stages. First, SketchUp itself captures the room in every direction from the point you marked and builds a spherical preview, at no cost. Then the AI turns that preview into a photograph: it keeps the architecture, furniture and proportions, replaces the model's materials with real finishes and removes SketchUp's outline edges.

Step by step

1. 1
   Pick the wall in front

   Click the wall that will sit at the center of the panorama. The image seam falls on the opposite wall, so put your best wall in front. If you click the floor or ceiling, the plugin uses the current camera direction.

2. 2
   Mark where you stand

   Click the floor at the point your client will look from. Eye height defaults to 1.60 m, and you can change it.

3. 3
   Check the preview

   The plugin captures the 6 views and stitches the 360 before spending any credit. If the viewer landed inside furniture or a wall, just redo it. The preview is free.

4. 4
   Generate

   Click Generate 360. It costs 5 credits, and the panorama is ready in about 30 seconds.

5. 5
   Share

   View it larger in the plugin, download the image, copy the link or send it straight through WhatsApp. Your client opens it in the browser and can rotate, zoom and go full screen.

What the panorama looks like

• Made for interiors. The 360 treats the scene as an interior photographed for a magazine.
• Natural daylight. Artificial lights come out switched off: LED strips, spots and fixtures don't light up in the panorama. To show night lighting, use a render with the lighting style you want.
• Architecture and furniture locked. The AI doesn't add or remove objects and doesn't change the layout or proportions. What changes are the finishes, which go from model materials to real materials.
• View through the window. Beyond the glass, the AI creates a believable residential urban setting, so the window isn't left white or empty. The window itself doesn't change.

Getting a good panorama

• From the middle of the room. A viewer squeezed into a corner flattens the space; from the middle, the panorama breathes.
• A clear wall in front. For the center of the panorama, pick a wall without furniture pushed against it.
• A closed room with materials. Modeled walls, floor and ceiling with materials applied give the AI something to interpret. Where a wall or ceiling is missing, the AI has to guess what's there.

If the result isn't what you expected

• Viewer inside furniture or a wall: it shows in the preview, before any credit is spent. Mark the point again, a little further away.
• Visible seam: it always falls on the wall opposite the one you picked as the front. Make the most important wall the front, and the seam goes to the back.
• Panorama facing the wrong way: you clicked the floor or ceiling instead of a wall, so the plugin used the camera direction. Click a wall to choose the front.

Quick questions

• How long does it take? About 30 seconds after the preview.
• How big is the image? 2048 × 1024 pixels, in the spherical (equirectangular) format 360 viewers use.
• Do I need to render first? No. The 360 comes straight from the model.
• Does my client need to install anything? No. The link opens in the browser on a computer or phone.
• Does it work outdoors? The 360 was made for interiors, and that's where it works best.