Everything you can take out of SiteView sits behind one button in the topbar. What it offers depends on the mode you are in, which is the only thing about it that catches people out.
In first-person mode
Download gives three things:
- Download Pano — the 360° image you are standing in, as a JPG named for the level and the capture date.
- Download Screen Capture — the view as it is on screen.
- Create Timeline Report — a PDF, covered below.
The Timeline Report
This is the one worth knowing about. It builds a PDF of this spot across several dates, so a single page shows how one location changed — which is most of what a progress report is.
Choose Create Timeline Report and the dialog asks for:
- Title (required) and an optional Description.
- Which captures — Current Capture, a Capture Date Range picked from a calendar, or Selected Captures ticked individually.
- Print Order — Newest First or Oldest First.
- Include Measurements — whether saved measurements are drawn on the images.
Export, and the report generates with a progress bar. Leave the page open while it runs — the dialog says so, and Cancel stops it. When it finishes you get Open Report, and the report opens as a printable page: the timeline strip along the top, the capture below it, ready for Print as PDF.
In aerial mode — Export 3D Data
The same button carries Export 3D Data, which opens a dialog titled Export with two tabs.
Point Cloud
| Format | Options | Use it for |
|---|---|---|
| PLY | Binary or Text | The general-purpose choice. Binary is smaller; Text is readable. |
| E57 | With Pano or Without Pano | The survey interchange format. With Pano carries the 360° imagery along with the points, and is much larger. |
| XYZ | — | Plain coordinates, when the receiving tool wants nothing else. |
Textured Mesh
- OBJ — mesh only.
- GLB — mesh and texture, in one file.
Coordinates
Both tabs offer Use Coordinates from Source Data. Tick it when the file is going into software that expects the survey coordinate system rather than the project one. If a colleague says your export landed in the wrong place, this is the checkbox.
Export runs with its own progress dialog — keep this page open until the exporter finishes — and can be cancelled, which reports back that the export was cancelled.
Download or Export?
Both, and they are different things. Download is the button, and the flat outputs behind it. Export is the dialog for 3D data. If you are looking for a point cloud, you are looking for Export, and you get to it from Download.
Sharing a view instead
Not everything has to be a file. Two things hand somebody the live view rather than a snapshot of it: Copy Link on a bookmark, which lands them on that exact spot, and Settings › Public Share, which opens the project to people who do not have an account.
Public Share is where sharing lives — there is no Share button in the topbar. It is a category in the Settings panel, under Others, and it carries a Share Link to hand out and Manage Access for who may use it.
SV Test 1.mp4 with both controls visible. “Share and Get Link” is spec vocabulary for a surface the build calls Public Share, and the article should use the build's name. Worth confirming that the spec item and this panel really are the same thing and not two features, one of which never shipped.The information panel
The ⓘ button in the topbar opens Information beside the viewport — what this spot is and where the picture came from. Two tabs:
| Tab | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Location | Geolocation as latitude and longitude, then Building, Level, Work Area and Closest room — the project structure this pano sits in |
| Capture Data | Camera, Taken at with the time to the minute, Capture (the capture date it belongs to) and Pano ID |
Rows the project has no data for read Not available rather than disappearing, so an empty Work Area tells you the project has no work areas set up — not that this pano fell outside them.
Pano ID is the one to copy into a support ticket. It identifies the exact image, which a description of where you were standing does not.