What’s new

What has changed in Stori3D, newest first.

4 Nov 2026

Teleport between panoramas: moving to another panorama now stretches the picture into streaks of its own colours and snaps into the next one. Existing links get it straight away. A downloaded tour needs downloading again. See Tours, VR and AR.
Realistic panorama tours don't start over: finished views are kept, so a cancelled tour carries on where it stopped and unchanged views aren't rendered twice. After changing the model you choose which to keep. The time left is now right from the start, and tours run a little faster. See Tours, VR and AR.
Panorama tour links: share a 360° tour as a link, with no account or download for visitors and no model sent out. You can still download it as a file. See Tours, VR and AR.
Realistic panorama tours: path trace a tour's panoramas, or keep the Quick ones the viewport draws. Ultra-realistic is coming soon.
A clearer Tours dialog: a tab each for walkthroughs and 360° panoramas, views picked by their pictures, and sharing in one place.
Moving round a panorama tour: hotspots now turn, move in and fade to the next panorama, which opens facing the way its saved view looks rather than at a wall.
Cleaner realistic panoramas: denoising no longer leaves faint shapes from an ordinary view of the room on 360° images, and a project with no sky no longer gets a black one. See Rendering.

3 Nov 2026

Edit together: teammates with the same project open now see each other's changes within a moment, each with their own undo. See Sharing and review.

29 Oct 2026

Quick and Architect: two ways to work on the same model, switched from the top bar. Quick has a short labelled toolbar for rooms, walls and paint, and fewer menus, each with More ▸ and Find any command… for the rest. Architect has SketchUp's menus, toolbars and keys. See Quick and Architect.
The Room tool: two corners, or a typed size, give walls, a floor and a name in one step. Rooms side by side share their walls. See Walls and rooms.
Paint by room: one click paints a room's walls, its floor or the outside walls, named and tinted before you click. Rooms, walls, floors and roofs list their finishes in Properties. See Materials and finishes.
A roof over the whole building, floors for closed rooms and Keep placing for doors and windows: switches on each tool's bar. See Levels, roofs and stairs.
SketchUp's toolbars: View → Toolbars… in Architect has Getting Started, Large Tool Set, Views, Solid Tools and the rest, and a status bar keeps the Measurements box on. See Coming from SketchUp.
What moved, in Architect: Move, Rotate, Scale, Mirror, Flip and Solid tools are in Tools; Orbit, Pan, Zoom, the standard views and the rest of the camera are in Camera; Draw and Window are new.
New keys: K shows back edges, Shift+Space starts Lasso select.

26 Oct 2026

Clash status and grouping: clashes are New, Active, Reviewed, Approved or Resolved from one run to the next, with notes, grouped by object, level or status, and go out as BCF with their status. See IFC classes and clash detection.
Script console: JavaScript against the model, as SketchUp's Ruby Console, with the same API as agents. See AI agents.
Drawing over the view: scripts and agents can draw lines, boxes, points and labels over your view to point things out.
Water: pool, pond and sea water finishes, see-through with ripples. See Materials and finishes.
Relief and roughness from the photo: new photo finishes get maps worked out from the picture, and any can have them added later.
Connection points: points on pieces that others snap to and turn to face when moved onto them. See Groups, components and tags.
Laser scans: LAS point clouds come in by the map coordinates, and the drawing tools snap to their points. See Importing.
Gaussian splats: see the model in a captured site, from Polycam, Luma, Postshot and others.
Hand-drawn strokes: pen, pencil, marker and charcoal lines, and two new built-in styles. See Styles and scenes.
AR from the origin: set the model's 0,0 down on a spot on site, such as a set-out corner. See Tours, VR and AR.
Climate and design guidance: load the site's weather file (EPW) for its temperatures, degree days and wind, with PreDesign-style advice on orientation, glass, shading, mass and ventilation, checked against the model's windows. See Site and sun.
A year of daylight: sDA and ASE for each room, hour by hour through the site's typical year, as LEED v4 measures them.
Issues and BCF: give a comment an assignee, a priority and a due date, and export comments or clashes as BCF for Revit, Archicad, Solibri and BIMcollab. See Sharing and review.
Lasso select and regular polygons: drag a loop to select, and draw a hexagon, or 8s for an octagon. See Shapes and push/pull.
Sky and ground: a sky colour above the horizon and a ground colour below it, behind the model. See Styles and scenes.
A night sky: stars and a moon, drawn in the app, to light night views. See Rendering.
Graphics settings: antialiasing, render scale, which graphics card, and texture filtering.
Finishes on a sphere or a cube, relief and roughness maps for your photo finishes, and finishes projected from above, the front, the side or wrapped round. See Materials and finishes.
Axis colours for colour-blind eyes: colour-blind safe and high-contrast sets, or your own. See Coming from SketchUp.
Your own toolbar: the tools you use most, in your order, docked where you like.
3D mouse: a 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse moves the view, in Chrome and Edge. See Navigating the model.
Drafting layers per sheet: hide a layer on one sheet only, or share one on every sheet. See Sheets.
Dimensions and text in the model: dimension between any two points in 3D, or an arc's radius, and add labels with leaders or pinned to the view. They follow what they're pinned to. See Shapes and push/pull.
3D text: lettering as a solid or a flat face, standing up or lying flat.
Terrain: ground from contour lines you've drawn or a surveyor's DXF, and a brush to raise and lower it.
Unit format and angle snapping: lengths in mm, cm or m (or feet, decimal feet or inches) to the precision you choose, and the angle step the drawing tools snap to. See Getting started.
Offset, trim and fillet on sheets, with grid bubbles and revision triangles that count on as you place them. See Sheets.
Your own scrapbook: save drafting to place again on any sheet in any project, and share it as a file.
Spreadsheets on sheets: an Excel or CSV file placed as a table.
Auto-text and renumbering: title block boxes, text and tables fill in {Sheet number}, {Date} and more on each sheet, and Renumber sheets… numbers the set again.
CAD title blocks and legends: a DXF brought onto a sheet as drafting, its layers kept.
Tags and CAD layers: a DXF can come into the model as edges with a tag for each layer, and the 3D DXF puts tagged objects on layers named after their tags. See Importing.
IFC classes: give shapes, groups and models an IFC class, such as Railing or Covering, for IFC export. See IFC classes and clash detection.
Choose what an IFC brings in: leave classes out, and keep the file's spaces as named rooms with their areas.
Clash detection: find where a consultant's model, a tag's objects or the furniture run into the building.
Position texture with pins: drag a red pin to slide a finish's pattern and a green one to turn and size it. See Materials and finishes.
Match Photo, further: the photo behind the model, in exported images, and projected onto faces as their texture. See Site and sun.
X-ray you can select through, and Clay: in X-ray, click again for what's behind and snap to hidden corners; Clay shows everything plain white, in the viewport and in realistic images. See Styles and scenes.
Present mode: the 3D view full screen with your views as a strip of thumbnails and a laser pointer.
Follow a teammate: click their avatar and your view goes where theirs does. See Sharing and review.

25 Oct 2026

Project templates and Duplicate: save a project as a template, share it with your team, and start new projects from it; duplicate any cloud project. See Saving and projects.
Linked library pieces: pieces from your library or the team library show whether they're up to date; save an edited copy back, and the other copies reload. The team library has folders. See Furniture and the library.
Your finishes and skies in every project: save a photo finish or your own sky to your library, or share it with your team, and bring it into any project. See Materials and finishes.
Panorama tours: 360° panoramas from your saved views, linked by hotspots and a floor plan, in one file that opens in any browser. See Tours, VR and AR.
Tours that switch scenes: a tour made from saved views can show each view's style, sky, sun and section as it reaches it, and views on sheets are drawn with their own sky.
Ambient occlusion settings: its reach, strength and colour, in the Style panel. See Styles and scenes.
Tangent arcs, Paint Bucket modes and crop shapes: arcs snap tangent to the line they start from; Ctrl-click paints the connected surfaces and Ctrl+Shift-click one object; and sheet drawings crop to any shape. See Sheets.
Mirror and flip: Edit → Mirror reflects the selection across a line you click, or a copy of it, and Flip along turns it over where it is. Doors change hand and stairs turn the other way. See Move, rotate and scale.
More arcs, Follow Me along a path, and Offset that splits: 3-point arcs, arcs from a centre and pies; Follow Me along a chain of edges you've drawn, for gutters and handrails; and Offset on a solid splits the face so you can push the ring or the middle. See Shapes and push/pull.
Outer shell and Split: two more solid tools, for one clean solid of the outside, or two overlapping solids cut into three.
Isolate, and select by tag or finish: right-click to see only the selection, or select everything on the same tag or with the same finish; Shift-click with Paint replaces a finish everywhere. See Materials and finishes.
Hatch patterns: a library of cut patterns (brickwork, concrete, insulation, earth, timber and more), and your own from AutoCAD .pat files. See Plans, sections and elevations.
Pens and line types: set the pen, line type and colour for each kind of line work and for everything on a tag, in drawings, sheets, PDF and DXF.
Labels from the model: tags and room labels say what you choose, with fields such as {Area} and your own properties, kept up to date.
Crop boxes and enlarged details: crop a drawing on a sheet to a box, or drag a box to add an enlarged detail at a bigger scale, called out on the drawing. See Sheets.
Reports: pick a schedule's columns, filter and group its rows, add totals, then save it for sheets or download it. See Schedules and custom properties.
Help centre: these articles, searchable, in Help → Help centre and on stori3d.com/help, with this list of what's new.
Map coordinates: put the project on a national map grid (MGA, the British National Grid, UTM and others), and IFC and DXF exports carry eastings and northings. See Map coordinates.
Files kept with a project: surveys, briefs, consultants' models and photos in Project → Files, for everyone who can open the project. See Files kept with a project.
IES and area lights, 360° panoramas: downlights can take a built-in beam or a manufacturer's IES file, ceiling panels light a room as area lights, and Export image… makes 360° panoramas that open as photo spheres. See Rendering.
Moving a finish's pattern: Move across and Move up shift a finish's texture on a surface, so tiles and boards start where you want them.
Invite-only links: a share link can open only for the email addresses you invite, and each person gets the link by email. See Sharing and review.
Present live: people on a share link can follow your view as you move round the model.
Section planes: save named section planes at any angle, place them on a face, and let saved views remember which one cuts. See Plans, sections and elevations.
Drafting and presenting on sheets: draw lines, shapes, text, leaders, revision clouds and symbols on sheets, on layers you can hide and lock; present the sheets full screen with a pen; and export sheets and the 3D model as DXF. See Sheets.
Product details: record the real product a door, window or piece of furniture is, read it from manufacturers' files, and list each product once in a Products schedule. See Schedules and custom properties.

23 Oct 2026

Styles and scenes: a Style panel for edge colours, depth cue, back edges, sketchy lines, fog and a watermark, with styles of your own; saved views now keep the whole style, and fast images export as TIFF, SVG or EPS. See Styles and scenes.
Ambient occlusion and profiles: soft contact shadows and thicker silhouette outlines, in the viewport and in fast images.
Match Photo: line the model up with a photo of the site and save it as a view that shows the photo over the model. See Site and sun.
Views on sheets keep their style: saved views on sheets are drawn with their own style and section cut, can be drawn at a true scale, and any drawing can use a custom 1:N scale.
Sun hours and daylight: map the hours of sun on the ground, roofs and windows for a day at the site, and check the daylight in each room.
More SketchUp tools: select and edit a solid's faces and edges, cut holes with Push/pull, measure and set angles with the Protractor, draw loose edges and freehand, sort tags into folders with the Tag tool, and stand reference pictures up in 3D.

22 Oct 2026

Room floors follow their walls: when you move a wall, the room's floor slab moves with it.

21 Oct 2026

Painting rooms: painting one room's walls no longer changes the room next door.

20 Oct 2026

Controls you already know: navigation, keyboard shortcuts, inference locks, the Measurements box and touch gestures now work like SketchUp's, and you can set your own shortcuts. See Navigating.
Share link previews: a share link pasted into a chat or email shows the project's name and a picture.
Right-click on a Mac: the browser's own menu no longer opens before Stori3D's.

18 Oct 2026

Cleaner realistic images: Denoise takes the grain out of realistic exports in browsers with WebGPU.
Villa Calma sample: a furnished family villa to explore, from File → Open furnished villa sample.
The sky stays put: the sky's picture no longer disappears when you move the sun.

17 Oct 2026

Stori3D originals: a set of our own furniture for bedrooms, living rooms, dining rooms, bathrooms and kitchens, free to use and export. See Furniture and library.
Parkside Apartments, furnished and lit: the apartments sample now has furniture and lighting.

16 Oct 2026

Curved walls and winders: draw walls as arcs, with doors, windows, rooms and plans following the curve, and turn L and U stairs on winders.
Contact support: send a request from Help → Contact support… and read the answers in the app or by email.
A loading bar: the app shows its progress while it starts.
More for AI agents: agents can do more of what you can do by hand. See AI agents.

15 Oct 2026

Scroll stories: share a tour as a page that opens on the floor plan, builds the building as visitors scroll and walks them through. See Tours, walking, VR and AR.
Car park and structure tools: grids, beams, parking bays, ramps and lifts, with the Parkside Apartments sample.
Style palettes: recolour every built-in piece of furniture in one step, in Warm modern, Scandi, Japandi, Industrial or Coastal.
A refined furniture set: one modern set with new pieces and finishes, and a library that shows modern pieces first, with other styles a click away.
People and cars: new scale figures in eight poses, and cars, a hatchback, a ute and a bicycle.
Steadier co-editing: edits made offline are kept and merged when you reconnect.

13 Oct 2026

Smoother tours: walkthrough tours turn smoothly at stops and tight bends.
Realistic interiors fixed: realistic images of interiors no longer come out black.

12 Oct 2026

Annotating drawings: add dimensions, text, leaders and tags to plans, elevations and sections, pinned to the elements they point at.
Practice title blocks: corner, strip or band layouts, your own boxes, sheet status, revisions and practice templates.
Modelling toolkit: arcs, Push/pull repeated with a double-click, typed angles and radial arrays in Rotate, Scale to a factor or length, and selection by rectangle.

10 Oct 2026

Tour videos: export a walkthrough tour as an MP4, from HD to 4K, square or upright.
Shadow study sheets: one click makes a sheet of the building's shadows on the equinox and solstices.
Trees, people and cars: trees, conifers, shrubs, hedges, people and cars to give sites and views scale.
Team library: share pieces from My library with your team.
Guide lines and points: guides at a typed distance from an edge, as SketchUp's Tape Measure makes them.

9 Oct 2026

Sheets and rendered images: lay out drawing sets with a title block and export them as one PDF, and export path-traced images at print size.
SketchUp looks, groups and tags: Monochrome, Hidden line and Sketch styles with edges and X-ray; groups and components you can edit inside; tags, phases and saved views that remember the display.
Shapes, Offset and Follow Me: draw rectangles, circles and polygons on any face, push and pull them into solids, and use 3D snapping with arrow-key axis locks.
Walls, doors and roofs: wall types with layers, doors hinged left or right, walls split where you click, walls that cross, and roofs over L-, T- and U-shaped rooms.
Drawing content: section lines on the plan, cut patterns, US scales, a north arrow and dimension chains through doors and windows.
Bringing work in: SketchUp models as COLLADA, DXF drawings as underlays, your own finishes and skies, and share links that update live with measuring and inspecting.

8 Oct 2026

Underlays: trace over images and PDF pages, scaled by measuring a known length. See Importing.
Move, copy and arrays: typed distances, copies with Ctrl or Option, 5x and /4 arrays, and paste in place between levels.
Camera basics: zoom extents, standard views, previous and next view, zoom window and two-point perspective.
VR on Meta Quest: visible pointers, a teleport arc and a hand menu in the headset.