Sharing a design with a public link

Step by step

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   Open Share with a link

   In the top bar click Export / Print / Share, then Share with a link (Publish a public, read-only link). In the iPhone, iPad and Android apps the same item is in the Share / Export menu. It opens the Shared designs page, with your most recently updated designs first. The Editor link at the top right takes you back to the plan.

   

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   The Shared designs page

   Every design on your account is listed, each with a Make public button — meaning it's currently private. At the top is Your public gallery: one link that lists everything you've made public. The gallery box appears once at least one design is public; while everything is private, the page is just the list. Each row shows the design's name and when it was last updated, which helps when several designs have similar names: share the one you mean.

   

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   Make the design public

   Press Make public on the design you want to share. The button turns to Public and a permanent read-only link appears under the row with Copy and Open buttons. The link looks like `app.roomsketch3d.com/u/<your gallery code>/<design code>`. It's permanent: it keeps working, and keeps the same address, as long as the design stays public, so you can send it once and the other person can come back to it any time.

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   Copy and send

   Press Copy and paste the link into a message or email. The person opens it in any browser: they can pan and zoom the plan, orbit and walk in 3D, and that's all — no editing, no export (apart from saving a picture of the 3D view), no access to your other designs. To stop sharing, press Public again and the link stops working. The button reads Copied for a moment so you know it worked. Open shows you the page exactly as the other person will see it. To send several designs at once, copy the Your public gallery link instead: it lists every design you've made public.

   

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   What the other person sees

   The link opens a read-only page, no sign-in needed: the design's name at the top, a Gallery link back to your public gallery, and the 2D plan with its room colours, furniture and dimensions. They can drag to pan and pinch or scroll to zoom. Nothing they do changes your design; there's no inspector and nothing to select. If you've set a display name, it shows as by your name. View 3D opens the same 3D view you use: orbit, Dollhouse, Line art, Ceiling, Shadows and High quality switches, and the footprints button to walk through the rooms. Save image lets them keep a picture of the 3D view they're looking at; that's the only thing they can take away. They can't download the plan, a PDF, the 3D model or the design file. On a multi-floor design they get a floor switcher for the plan, and the 3D view shows the whole house.

   

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   They can walk it in 3D

   In 3D the viewer can orbit around the model, look into each room from above with Dollhouse, or walk in at eye level with the footprints button, the same way you do in the editor. This is usually what convinces people: a landlord sees where the sofa really goes, a partner sees how the bedroom feels with the bed on the other wall. Stop sharing. Back on Shared designs, press Public on that design. It's private again and the link stops working straight away: we switched a design back to private and its link returned page not found on the very next load. Make it public again later and it gets the same address back.

   

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