• Login to the Dashboard of your Wordpress website
• Click on Plugins in the Dashboard menu on the left side
• Select Add New plugin on the top
• Search for "Canvasio3D Light" in text field right top
• Install Canvasio3D Light and activate it
• Now you find Canvasio3D in you Dashboard Menu left side

Canvasio3D is the 3D-Viewer for WordPress that show 3D-Graphic interactive in your WordPress pages.

• Open Canvasio3D with a click on you dashboard menu left side
• Click than on New scene or Scene select
• Select the top icon Model Settings
• Upload the File Format: .glb / .stl or in a Zip-File: .glTF / .obj & .mtl
• Upload one ore more 3D-Models as Zip-File in a Model Zip-Folder
• Set the Model size / Down & Up if you needed
• Go back to the Scene Manager (First top Icon) and save the scene
• Right Click in the Short Code text field and select copy
• Paste the short code in the text edit area of a page and click top right on update
• A short-code example to insert in your page should be: [Canvasio3D Scene=1]

If you need a 3D-Model for testing: Click here to download

After creating a New scene or Scene select can you use the Menu button above Model Settings

Model upload:

Before you can upload the 3D-Data for your 3D-Models should you compressed this in a Zip-Folder!
A Zip-File upload is much faster than uncompressed.

Zip-Folder: Insert all data for one- or more Models in a single folder on you Desktop and save this folder as Zip-File. If you like, read here more about: Model Zip-Folder

After creating a Zip-File, click on the button 3D-Object Upload (.zip)

Model settings:

With a uploaded 3D-Model can you setup here the Model Size and the position with Down / Up or change the Brightness of a scene.

If you like can you also turn the Auto rotation to on, so the Camera rotated automatic around the Scene after loading a page.

We recommended for a single model a size maximal of 15MB as zip-file or 30MB for a unpacked Model!

Setup the 3D-Window for a WordPress Page

In the upper menu Window Settings you can make the following necessary entries for a single 3D-Window:

Width and Height: Set here the Window size in pixel (px) or in percent (100%)

Color: Select a color for the background of the 3D-Window

Image: Select a image for the background of the 3D-Window

Color | Image: Select which background will shown in the 3D-Window

And in the next top Menu "Button Settings" can you switch this buttons for a single 3D-Window:

Setup the 3D-Window for a WordPress Page

Canvasio3D Light supports more than one short-code entry and you can insert many HQ-Graphic scenes in a single Page. But be careful not to load to many Scenes, as this can slow down the loading time of the website considerably.

We recommended for a single model a size maximal of 15MB as zip-file or 30MB for a unpacked Model!

In the upper menu Window Settings you can make the following necessary entries for a single 3D-Window:

Width and Height: Set here the Window size in pixel (px) or in percent (100%)

Color: Select a color for the background of the 3D-Window

Image: Select a image for the background of the 3D-Window

Color | Image: Select which background will shown in the 3D-Window

Camera Pan: With this switch can you enabled the right mouse to move the scene around

Camera Lock: This switch lock the camera view, so that a model floor cannot be viewed

Camera Damping: This switch set the camera to a smooth dynamic glide movement

In the next top Menu "Button Settings" can you switch this buttons for a every 3D-Window and you can also enable the button for a Wireframe view:

Model Settings | Main Menu

Canvasio3D Pro supported now (As of V1.4.3) also the WordPress Media view and thus shows an optimal overview of the stored scenes.

With a uploaded 3D-Model can you setup here the Model Size and the position with Down / Up for a scene.

If you like can you also turn the Auto rotation to on, so the Camera rotated automatic around the Scene after loading a page. Also can you set here the Camera height that used when the 3D-Windows where loaded.

We recommended for a single model a size maximal of 15MB as zip-file or 30MB for a unpacked Model!

From here can you also enter the Sub-Menus: Edit material | Edit enviroment | Edit effects | Edit floor

Thumbnails and Images to load different scenes

If you like can you use any WordPress image to load a different scene in a page.

Therefor enter a Canvasio3D short-code into your page and insert an image from your WordPress media in your page too. Than edit the alt entry of that image like this: alt="area=1,scene=1" or alt="scene=1" if you have only one 3D-Area window in your page.

Also need you add caImage in the class entry of this image like class="caImage"

After updaten the Page can you than click this image to load the scene that is enter in the alt value.

Model Settings: Edit material

Most models have one or more materials for different model parts. For example: In a car is one material set for the body in blue and another for all four wheels in black rubber, that you can here select with a right mouse click to change this rubber material for all wheels.

To change the Material settings: Click a model part with the right mouse button. Note that you always edit one material set that could also be assigned to different parts of your model! (As described above in the example with the rubber wheels).

After a right click can you change the selected material with the values of: roughness, metallic, transparency or color.

Setup a Video as texture for a material:

If you want, you can also assign a video to a material here. For this select first the model material with a right click than select the URL for a Video and enabled it with the toggle button left to the color field.

Note: some Videos have sound or music, but this play only when a user do select the page or an page element!

Model Settings: Edit enviroment

In this menu you can select a Light set and also adjust the Brightness for a scene.

With the Panorama function of Canvasio3D Pro can you here select and enabled a 360 degree Image for a scene background. We have prepared some pictures that you can found here: Panorama images download So you can easy un-zip the images and upload it to your WordPress Media.

If you looking for more panorama images visit a website like e.g. hdrihaven. (Select there ever to download the 8K Tonemapped JPG in the lower menu on the page).

Model Settings: Edit effects

Here can you switch on a nice Water-Effect to a scene.To make this effect look best, we also recommend using this together with a 360° background.

(Maybe later we will add more effects in the next update here as well).

Model Settings: Edit floor

In Canvasio3D Pro can you here easy add a mirror Floor to your scene. That is very practical, because many 3D-Models have not a bottom surface, but sometimes a scene looks better with yet somehow.

Window Settings

Canvasio3D Pro supports more than one short-code entry and you can insert many HQ-Graphic scenes in a single Page. But be careful not to load to many Scenes, as this can slow down the loading time of the website considerably.

We recommended for a single model a size maximal of 15MB as zip-file or 30MB for a unpacked Model!

In the upper menu Window Settings you can make the following necessary entries for a single 3D-Window:

Width and Height: Set here the Window size in pixel (px) or in percent (100%)

Color: Select a color for the background of the 3D-Window

Image: Select a image for the background of the 3D-Window

Color | Image: Select which background will shown in the 3D-Window

Camera Pan: With this switch can you enabled the right mouse to move the scene around

Camera Lock: This switch lock the camera view, so that a model floor cannot be viewed

Camera Damping: This switch set the camera to a smooth dynamic glide movement

Button Settings and Animation control

Here can you toggle different buttons that will shown in a single 3D-Window.

Animations with the glTF / glb or FBX file format

If you have 3D-Models with animation data loaded, can you set it up here with the animation functions and also enable the play button for the 3D-Window in the frontend.

Note: The Animation functions are shown only when a 3D-Model are loaded that have animation data!

Your 3D-Item in WooCommerce with 360° smooth rotation and zooming

To use Canvasio3D with your WooCommerce shop is real very easy.

Open a WooCommerce product page and configure your items in WooCommerce, like you always do.

Insert a short code in the product page short description in the page bottom and change the scene number entry to: "WooCommerce". For example: [Canvasio3D Scene=WooCommerce] and save your page.

After configure you WooCommerce Items, click on the Woo-Icon in Canvasio3D to open the menu. (This Icon is only shown, if you have a product page open.)

For a single item only, click in the Canvasio3D Menu on: "Assign Scene to product". (If you have only a Single product, do you need not to use the Canvasio3D drop down: "Main product item". Load here only a saved Scene like "Scene 1" and click on the button: "Assign to product" and than save your product page.)

To use 3D-Models with WooCommerce variations, simpel select your WooCommerce Item in the drop-down menu of Canvasio3D and than select the Scene for it and click on "Assign Scene to product". After it, save your product page.

Also is it possible to display of high-quality diamonds for your 3D-Jewelry. For this load your 3D-Model, click on "Crystal material select" and select a "Diamant"-Part of your model. Than save- and reload your Model.

If several 3D parts are to be "diamonds" in Canvasio3D, all these parts must have the same initial name and an underlined after it e.g. diamant_ - What comes after the underline does not matter, just like the initial name itself.

If you like to show a Video in you 3D-Scene are there two ways: First upload you Video with the WordPress media manager. Open than the Canvasio3D Effects menu, select your Video and switch the Video plane on.

Or you can use a Video Texture of your own 3D-Model after uploading your Video in WordPress. For this open your 3D-Model in a 3D-Program like Blender and edit there the Material of a Model part. Than enter the material name: "caVideo" for this part. The Video plays automatically, when your 3D-Model is loaded in Canvasio3D only if a Video URL is inserted in the Effects menu!

Please note: The Canvasio3D 3D-Feature for WooCommerce can only be displayed in the front page, if the standard function of the WooCommerce product image has not been changed! (This can happen for example by using a special WooCommerce template or plugin.)

You can try to ignore this message, or switch to the classic WordPress Editor

-Simple clear the browser cache and reload the page

Click here to download

• Canvasio3D has a upload limit of 70MB for an zip-file
• 3D-Model data with 100MB or more do not run in most browser
• The Model scaling can be to big or small, for this use the scale slider to adapt it
• The data is packed in a subdirectory of the zip-file, so Canvasio3D can not find it
• Sometimes can the data be broken, so test it with a free programm like Blender
• The name of an .obj file should be the same, e.g. myModel.obj and myModel.mtl
• Loading the 3D-Models takes far to long, so maybe this tutorial will help you
• By loading problems with Firefox can you try an addon called “CORS Everywhere” (Thanks Dustin)

The .obj file format stores all material information in a separate .mtl file, where also are the entries for textures. By exporting of an model can it be, that this entries are not correct. To check it, open the .mtl file with a standard text editor like notepad and search for entries that begins with: map_Kd. After it should only be the name of the texture like e.g.: map_Kd modelTexture.jpg

Canvasio3D rotate ever the camera around the x,y,z world coordinates. Read our blog entry for more: About camera and model rotation

This format is a simply geometry format and has no material entries for e.g. colors, but you can set one Material for it with Canvasio3D Pro

This format is not the best for online presentation in browsres but it is popular and can be most simply export with many 3D-Programs. Animation data are here not included and the settings for the material entries are stored in the separat .mtl file.

Sometimes can it be with this format, that the 3D-Model shown only black. Mostly comes this when the texture entries in the .mtl file are not correct or the .mtl file was not right exported.

This compact format was developed for some time specifically to display in browser and we would like recommended it for the most 3D-Model presentation in Canvasio3D. It has good material settings and can also stored animation data that you can use in Canvasio3D.

More informations about this file format can you find here

The FBX file format is owned by Autodesk since 2006 and a very popular format that used in many 3D-Programs. Canvasio3D Light supports the FBX file format without animation and Canvasio3D Pro can shown animations when a loaded 3D-Model have this data.

Many 3D-Models are very large in MB and therefore it takes a long time to upload them. Therefore we have decided to upload the 3D-models only via zip-file, that will stored in the upload directory of your WordPress website.