What's New at JigSpace

Optimizing your imported CAD files

When you import a CAD file or 3D model into the Workshop, you can now choose how JigSpace optimizes it. Keep Optimize model automatically on to merge sub-objects so your Jig loads faster, or turn it off to preserve every part of the original. For heavy models, turn on Decimate geometry and set your own rate to reduce the triangle count. JigSpace remembers your settings for the next import.

Learn more about 3D model optimization

Keyboard shortcuts on Windows and Mac

The most popular editing shortcuts are now displayed in shortcuts panel. Click the help icon in the bottom-left corner of the Workshop and choose Keyboard shortcuts to see them.

You can see them grouped into Core, Navigation and Object shortcuts. Press W, E, and R to switch between move, rotate, and scale, Tab to switch between object and sub-object mode, F to focus the view on the selected object, Ctrl / ⌘ + ↓ to snap a selected object to the floor, and more.

Learn more about keyboard shortcuts

Hide action effects

Actions show a glimmer effect on a model so viewers know where to tap. In Jigs where nearly every part has an action, or in training assessments where learners should find the right part unaided, that hint gets in the way. You can now turn it off for a Jig: open Jig settings and toggle Hide action effects. It applies to everyone viewing that Jig, including in the web viewer and apps.

Learn more about interactive actions

Universal Mac app

JigSpace for Mac is now a universal app that runs natively on Apple silicon, for better performance on M-series Macs. Older Intel-based Macs are still supported.

Download the latest macOS desktop app for Macs.

3X Faster Jigs in web browser

Jigs shared to the web now load over 3 times faster before. Larger Jigs that previously struggled to load in browsers should now open easily, even when on slower internet connections.

Redesigned text boxes

With a cleaner new design, you can adjust corner rounding and padding on text boxes to suit anything from short headings, to longer bodies of text.

Learn more about text boxes

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Simplified Team Sharing

Jigs that are shared with you 1:1 by a team mate for collaboration on editing or viewing, now appear in Team Jigs and filtered by 'Show shared with me'.

Multi-selection simplified

You can now select mulitple objects across both the viewport and object list using the same hotkeys on the desktop apps:

• Windows: Ctrl + Click
• Mac: cmd / ⌘ + Click

Showcase

You can now present a focused, white-labeled set of your Jigs on Apple Vision Pro. The rest of the app disappears, viewers only see the Jigs you choose. Built for trade shows, experience centers, and training programs. You can filter your showcase using categories, tags, or offline Jigs.

Learn more about showcase mode.

Categories

You can organize your 3D presentations into categories to group similar topics together (like product lines, or training subjects). Jigs can be added to a category (similar folders) and be sorted into these categories. Categories also have a shortcut to launch into a showcase.

Learn how to add Jigs to categories

Remote Control Support

Launch a showcase from the Jig AVP Remote app on your iPhone or iPad to keep your guest viewers on Apple Vision Pro focused and undistracted. Viewers in a paired and connected Apple Vision Pro will see a mirrored view with the AVP remote app.

Learn more about Jig AVP Remote App.

'Shared with me' Jigs

To simplify the user experience, Jigs that are shared directly with you by a team mate are now able to be viewed in the 'Team Jigs' tab, and filtering to 'Shared with me'.

Learn more about team sharing.

Speed and performance

Jigs now become viewable and interactive sooner - approximately 25%-50% faster.

Text boxes

We've also updated the default design of text boxes. Creators now have more design options for rounded corners and text padding, so that they work for titles, information cards, and user interface components.

Apple Vision Pro app now has a dedicated downloads tab to make it easy to find your Jigs to present that you have already downloaded.

If you are offline and using your AVP, you will be directed to this tab. When presenting Jigs in low-speed public WiFi environments, it will be easier to find your downloaded Jigs too.

Downloaded Jigs can also be loaded via the remote from the new dedicated downloads tab on the Jig AVP Remote app.

Learn more about offline mode

Jig AVP Remote improvements

We've improved the ability to reconnect the AVP Remote app to your device after removing the device, and putting it back on again. This will help users in busy public WiFi environments like exhibition trade shows or customer experience centers.

Update your Jig AVP Remote on the AppStore

Animate a group of steps

Turn a range of steps into an animation. Choose Loop, Playthrough, or Boomerang, and preview it directly in the Workshop.

Learn more about step animations and looping

Full control on transitions

‍New handles between steps let you fine-tune each transition individually. Adjust tween timing and delays to get exactly the pacing you want.

Learn more about step transitions

Multi-select steps and transitions

Select multiple steps or handles at once with Cmd/Ctrl + Click, or grab a range with Shift + Click.

Learn more about multi-selecting in step transitions

iPad users now have access to the object property panel, to create interactive actions and camera viewpoints on each step. iPad users can also edit using advanced transformation tools like snapping, pivot points, copy and paste transforms, and custom material and texture settings.

With actions, iPad users can add interactivity to 3D objects or UI that take viewers to another step in the same Jig, or open a website. Viewers of your Jigs on Apple Vision Pro can also be linked from one Jig to another with actions. 

On iPad you can now add a default camera viewpoint to any step in your Jig. This moves non-AR viewers to where you want them to see on each step when they transition from one step to another.

When moving objects around, iPad users can now snap 3D models together based on their surfaces or vertices, or snap them to the ground. You can also edit pivot points, adjust position, rotation, and scale transforms with numerical input, and edit material settings and texture effects, all on the go using the JigSpace iPad app.

Other improvements:

Help hints in the Jig editing workshop now contain short videos to make it easier to learn features while you're editing them, right when you need them.

You can now also open Jigs to edit from anywhere with deep-linking into edit mode, which opens the corresponding Jig directly in the Workshop on desktop, so you can jump from the dashboard or an email alert, straight into editing with one click.

We’ve also squashed a range of bugs that will improve performance and stability across the apps.