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

Microsoft 365 Insider | Install, activate, and update | Windows

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-01-01T18:52:41+00:00

    Really great feature, thanks a lot!!

    I have two "small" suggestions or problems:

    I try to build an earth rotating animation. For this, I found a nice model, but:

    1.) for rotating with the mouse, it would be great if I could fix the rotation axis, that means that I can only rotate horizontially or at a give angle. Perhaps with pressing SHIFT while dragging with the mouse

    2.) is there a chance of an endless rotation? I tried to use morph with 4 slieds and it works fine. But first, the rotation slows down every quarter rotation, and second, it stops after 360°. I'd like to rotate endlessly

    Thanks a lot again!

    Best wishes

    Daniel

    Hi Daniel,

    Thanks for your feedback. We recently introduced a 3D animations feature which may help with your second question. You can read about the new feature here. The feature is first being released to Insiders, but should be available in an upcoming update to O365 Subscribers as well. I've also taken a note about your first idea.

    Thanks for taking the time to provide these suggestions,

    Stephanie Horn

    Senior Program Manager, Office Graphics

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-01-07T17:45:22+00:00

    I have Office 365 on a Mac and I am an Office Insider Fast subscriber but I haven't received the update that adds the 3D button. Do I have to do anything special to get this update?

    Please let me know 

    Thank you

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-01-09T04:30:07+00:00

    Great Job Done, Soon would love to see on-screen coordinates moving to adjust the model rather quickly in desired direction.

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