Arkio News

Placing and working with images

Oct 4, 2024
The most exciting and anticipated moment for anyone’s week has arrived, pro-tip Friday! 😄 This time around we are showing how you can incorporate images into your models. 🖼️ Whether you’re sketching over a site photo, modeling from a floor plan, or referencing a diagram, Arkio lets your design workflow shine!

Installed 1.9 and now it crashes on launch

Oct 4, 2024 @theredmage sorry for the delay in getting back to ya! We needed to pick at this edge condition a bit more, but a solution has (potentially) come to life 🎉 We are suspecting that the desktop version of Arkio you have might have been installed through the Meta Quest desktop app, which is not updating—the investigation continues!

Version 1.9 is Live!

Sep 30, 2024 🚀 Arkio 1.9 is out in the wild! Not only does this update bring full support for stylus, but it also introduces a range of UI improvements. Let us know what you think 🙂 What's New in Arkio 1.9 ?! Get the full release notes here!

Modeling w/ style using the MX Ink

Sep 27, 2024 Another Friday pro-tip coming in for the crew! Here we are taking a look how the new stylus feature works and how it brings the familiarity of pen and paper into Arkio. 🖊️

Move and Rotate like a Pro!

Sep 20, 2024 Protip incoming! 🙌 This time we went back to the basics of how to move and rotate an object 🌪️

Importing .BIMX .FBX file? to use with Oculus 2

Sep 17, 2024 Hello and welcome to the community @Ripe! Don’t forget to say hello!👋 Jeez, that’s a tough file to jump into as a non architect. ‘.bimx’ and ‘.fbx’ are not supported in Arkio, but it’s somewhat close. If you can convert those to ‘.obj’ or ‘.gltf’ you will be good to go!

Locking position with anchors in mixed reality

Aug 23, 2024 A lil quiet in here lately 🛏️ but let’s change that with another Friday pro-tip. To kick off the weekend we wanted to shed some light on spatial anchors and how to utilize them with the lock position command.

Privacy of 3d models

Aug 8, 2024 That’s a yes, fully encrypted from end to end! 🔒 The only way anyone (including us) can access a cloud group is by sharing an invite code or the url.

Webpage navigation

Aug 8, 2024 That does it explain it better! Having these three sites relate to each other is important, I’ll keep this in mind as we are updating these resources. 🙂

Digital Preservation in Volterra 🏟️

Aug 6, 2024 Hey there arkitects! 🟥 We got a new blog post to share with you, this time @dace tells the tale of his time in Volterra during the digital preservation workshop...

Arkio to Enscape!

Jul 24, 2024 We got a fresh new How to____ with Arkio video for ya’ll! This time we are covering how you can utilize your Arkio models for rendering visualization with Enscape ⭐ Check it out! Arkio to Enscape 🌟 How to Expand Your Workflows with Arkio 🎥