A 3D Asset widget turns photographs of an object into a real 3D mesh. Point it at a chair, a lamp or a product shot and you get geometry you can spin on the canvas and hand to Blender, Rhino or a game engine.

It is a sink: images flow in, the mesh stays on the widget. Nothing connects out of it, which is why it only has a dock on its left edge.

When to use

You have reference photos of a physical object and want it as 3D geometry.
You want to place a real product in a scene rather than re-generate it in every image.
You need a model file to hand to someone working outside the app.

Not for

Whole rooms or environments — use a 3D world instead, which builds an explorable space rather than one object.
Characters you intend to rig and animate.

Steps

Add a 3D Asset from the Add element menu, then click the canvas to place it.
Give it an image, any of three ways:
- drag a connection from an image on the canvas to the widget’s left dock;
- Upload to pick a file from your computer;
- From canvas and then click an image already on the canvas.
Optionally add more views of the same object — up to four. Connecting a whole stack feeds every image in it at once.
Open the ⚙ settings to choose a model and quality. The credit cost updates as you change them.
Press Generate. It takes a few minutes; you can leave the page and come back — it resumes on its own.

The card

Element	What it does
Left dock	The only connection point. Images in — nothing out.
⚙ Settings	Model, texture, topology and cost. Opens below the card without moving it.
(i)	A short explanation of the whole flow.
Download	Export the mesh as GLB, FBX, OBJ or USDZ — see Exporting below. Works even without opening the 3D view.
Preview area	The generated mesh. Click it to load the interactive 3D view.
Add image	Adds another reference view, up to four. Greys out at the cap.
Remove	Disconnects the inputs and returns the card to its empty state.
Generate	Starts the job. Reads Retry after a failure, Generate again once a mesh exists.

Viewing in 3D

Click the picture to load the interactive view.

Drag to pan.
Right-drag (or wheel-drag) to rotate. On a touchscreen, one finger pans and two fingers rotate.
Scroll still zooms the canvas, not the model — so the page keeps behaving the way it does everywhere else.

Leave the widget and the picture stays exactly at the angle you left it. The 3D view only loads when you ask for it, and only a few can be live at once, so a canvas full of assets stays fast.

Settings

Setting	Effect
Model	Meshy 6 for the best quality, Meshy 5 for roughly a quarter of the credits — good for checking framing before committing.
Generate texture	Off gives bare geometry: cheaper and a much lighter file.
Texture resolution	2K, 4K or 8K. 2K and 4K cost the same; 8K costs 5 credits more.
PBR maps	Metallic, roughness and normal maps. No extra credits, but a much heavier file.
Topology	Triangle for renderers and game engines, Quad if you will edit the mesh.
Real-world scale	Estimates the object’s physical size instead of normalising it.

Exporting

Download hands you the mesh in any format the generation produced. It works straight from the picture — you never have to open the 3D view first.

Format	What you get	Best for
GLB	One file, texture included	Most things — Blender, three.js, web viewers
FBX	One file, texture included	Maya, 3ds Max, Unreal, Unity
USDZ	One file, texture included	iPhone and iPad, AR Quick Look
OBJ	A zip holding three files	Rhino, CAD tools, anything that wants OBJ

Pick GLB if you have no reason not to. It carries its texture inside the file and everything opens it.

Why OBJ arrives as a zip

OBJ is the one format that cannot hold a picture inside it. The mesh, the material and the texture image are three separate files that find each other by filename — Chair.obj looks for model.mtl, which looks for texture_0.png.

So the download is a zip with all three inside. Unzip it into one folder and open the .obj from there. Two things to leave alone:

Don’t rename model.mtl or texture_0.png. Each is found by its exact name. Rename either one and the model opens plain grey.
Don’t separate them. All three have to sit in the same folder.

The .obj itself is safe to rename — nothing points at it, which is why it arrives named after your widget.

If you turned Generate texture off there is no material or image to ship, and OBJ downloads as a single file.

Remesh

Once a mesh exists, Remesh rebuilds it with the current topology and polycount for 5 credits — far less than generating again. Use it when the shape is right but you need a different mesh structure.

Good to know

Several images should be different angles of one object, not different objects. Meshy reads them as reference views.
More than four images on a stack: the first four are used, and the card shows the count it will send.
The mesh belongs to the widget. Copying the widget copies the mesh with it, and costs nothing.
Deleting the widget deletes the mesh. The images it was made from stay.