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7 posts about 3d tiles, written by people who have actually been down a mine with a scanner.
3D Tiles 1.1 was ratified by the OGC in 2023. Implicit tiling, metadata, and multi-content tiles explained — and what surveyors actually need to care about.
May 18, 20263D Tiles streams massive survey scenes progressively. OBJ, GLB, and FBX are single-asset formats. Here is how they differ and when to deliver each to clients.
May 18, 20263D Tiles is a folder of thousands of files, not a single download. Your hosting and sharing options — from S3 to Cesium ion to purpose-built platforms.
May 18, 2026CesiumJS is the open-source WebGL engine behind browser-based 3D Tiles visualisation. How it works, who uses it, and how surveyors get their data into it.
October 10, 2024Step-by-step guide to exporting 3D Tiles from Pix4D, Metashape, and RealityCapture so drone survey outputs can be streamed and viewed in any modern browser.
September 5, 2024Full pipeline tutorial: drone flight planning, processing in RealityCapture, exporting to 3D Tiles, and sharing a browser-viewable point cloud with clients.
August 15, 2024What 3D Tiles is, why it matters for surveyors, and how the OGC streaming standard handles massive point clouds and photogrammetry models in any browser.
July 22, 2024