Getting ready

Locate the 3D model you want to place in your project and make sure it is not locked.

How to do it…

To place a 3D model accurately, perform the following steps:

How it works…

Lumion uses the XYZ coordinate system to place the 3D models, and the center of your world is at 0, 0, 0 respectively. That is why when you import a 3D model, occasionally you can't see it because when you model the house, you did it far away from the 0, 0, 0 point.

There's more…

This distinctive feature is handy in reality when we have a heavy 3D scene. Let's pick up an example of a housing estate; however, we now have 10 different houses, and we are having difficulties importing them in Lumion. A workaround for this is instead of exporting the entire scene, we can export the 10 houses individually and assemble them in Lumion. But how do you know where to put everything back? The coordinate system can be really useful in a situation like this.

First, make a habit of modeling the building or whatever you want at the 0, 0, 0 coordinates in your 3D modeling package. Second, create a group for every single 3D model you want to export, and after that, check the coordinates for those groups on the 3D modeling package. Third, move all the groups to the center point, or in other words, to the 0, 0, 0 coordinates and export them. Fourth, while importing the 3D models into Lumion, you already know where these are supposed to be and, using the coordinate system, you can move each house to the correct place.