New! 3D in Office now available to Office Insiders on Windows Desktop

Anonymous
2017-07-20T17:03:39+00:00

Hi, I’m Stephanie Horn, a Program Manager on the Graphics team.

I'm excited to announce that we are rolling out 3D model support in PowerPoint 2016, Word 2016, Excel 2016 and Outlook 2016 for Windows Desktop. We’d like our Office Insiders to get the first look.

Support is available for Office Insider Fast starting in Version 1707 (Build 8319.1000) and Office Insider Slow starting in Version 1708 (Build 8326.2033).

When you look at the Insert tab you’ll immediately see that there is a new button to insert a 3D model.

You can use 3D models to increase the visual and creative impact of your documents, presentations and reports. Easily change the perspective of 3D material with a rotation handle to rotate it through 360 degrees. In addition, bring 3D models to life in your presentations with the Morph transition to create cinematic animations between slides.

Watch this feature in action

Adding a 3D model to your presentation is as easy as adding photo or video. Just go to the Insert tab and you can see the 3D Modelsbutton. You can insert the creations you build in Paint 3D, models from the Remix 3D community, and any other models you might have. To learn more about inserting 3D models from the Remix 3D community, check out my coworker Constance's recent post.

Once you insert a 3D model, you can see a new 3D rotation handle to rotation the model to different angles.

Watch this feature in action

Also, check out the new 3D Model Tools Formatting tab. It provides additional functionality like Pan & Zoom to focus on a particular component of the model. The handle on the right of the model zooms the model, and the dragging the model in this mode pans it. There is also 3D Model Views to snap the model to specific views.

Scenarios to try

  • Insert a model. You can build a model in Paint 3D, download models from the Remix 3D community, or use any other models you might have available.
  • Use the 360-rotation handle to update the view.
  • Put the same 3D model on two adjacent PowerPoint slides and use the Morph transitionto seamlessly move from one view to the other.
  • Use the Pan & Zoom button on the 3D Model Tools Formatting tab to focus on a particular component of the model. The handle on the right of the model zooms the model, and the dragging the model in this mode pans it.

Send us feedback!

If you have any feedback, just reply in the comments for this post. If you’re in an app, you can also click File > Feedback.

Thanks,

The Office Graphics Team

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-10-12T17:57:43+00:00

    Hi Folks,

    I'm in version 1705 (Build 8201.2200), but when I click over the Update buton, office shows the message that I'm Up to date. Any suggestion to get the 1708 version so I can use the 3DModels feature?

    Thanks!

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-10-09T16:00:40+00:00

    Hi, would really like to test it, but although the build is right, I am not getting the insert 3D model option. It is actually there, but does not show up (I see it when I say customize ribbon). If I try to push the command to a new group, it is disabled all the time.

    Any hint?

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-10-02T22:16:23+00:00

    Hi John,

    I guess that exporting from Solidworks in stl don't give good results, may be more with 3MF.

    but from my handerstanding the best is glb ( the binary form of glTF) because OBJ is quite poor regarding texture support and FBX with embeded texture is a little "confidential".

    But I don't know if SolidWorks is able to handle export in glTF, and then if you are able to find a tool to convert your glTF in glb..,

    I'm in the same case.

    I'm confident that importing 3D files in Office is a great step, and also that GlTF(glb) could be the jpeg of the 3D but I guess that some basic tools are missing for non coders or 3D skilled people...

    jmlg

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-10-02T21:56:17+00:00

    Stephanie,

    This could potentially be a very interesting feature for us! We have 3D models which are created in SolidWorks. The models can be exported into one or two of the file types that Office can accept, but they remove all of their texture detail (some of the file types are the same as would be used for 3D printers, which, of course, have no need for texture detail).

    We're curious about the originating source for that Mars rover shown in the demo video above. It certainly didn't look like it was done in Paint 3D!

    Regards, 

    John Sauber

    Hi John,

    The Mars rover came from the NASA website and is freely available for use:

    https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/models

    We are investigating the issue you report with SolidWorks. It should export to 3MF and STL.

    Thanks!

    Stephanie Horn

    Senior Program Manager, Office Graphics

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  5. Anonymous
    2017-09-27T09:23:15+00:00

    Woooooooooooooooooow

    finally

    I was waiting for years now

    thank you very much.

    I have tried it, fantastic

    but please add 3d animation. eg. rotation, zooming,

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