Glossary

What every word in Vysora Studio means — including the several places where the product uses two different words for the same thing.

Vysora Studio does not use one word per idea. A set of swatches is a folder on one screen and a Material group on another; the nav says Models and the page it opens says Products. This page tells you which screen uses which word.

Atelier

One of the three Vysora product lines, for jewellery, watches and toys. An Atelier configurator holds exactly one product, offers macro zoom, and can show part toggles and an exploded view. Product settings calls its scale pane Size & scale and offers a Display size slider. Its published-configurator allowance is larger than the Studio line's — see Limits and supported formats. Compare Showroom and the Studio line.

base coat

The material painted on every zone that has no folder assigned, so fixed parts still match the set. It is the Base coat — fixed parts dropdown at the bottom of the Material groups tab, and it defaults to — leave as exported —. The base coat is not shown in the 3D preview inside Studio, so a preview or captured thumbnail will not reflect it. See Mapping zones to folders.

collection

A group of models in the product library — a product line, a range, a season. A collection is not a record anywhere: it is a model's first tag, so filing a model into a collection rewrites that tag. Models with no tags land in Unfiled. Moving a model between collections is organisational only and never changes a published configurator. See Uploading models.

configurator

One menu tree over your products and materials, published as a link and an embed code. Your customer opens it, walks the menu, picks products and swatches, and can request a quote. You build it in the builder and make it live with publish. See Building a configurator.

embed code

The <iframe> snippet Studio gives you after a successful publish, to paste into your own website. It points at the same address as Direct link, so both show the same configurator. Republishing updates what the embed shows without changing the snippet. See Publishing.

folder

A set of swatches in the Materials library — Oak veneers, Plastic, Fabric. Assign a folder to a zone on a model and every material in that folder becomes a swatch the customer can pick on that part.

This is one idea with three names. The Materials library calls it a folder, everywhere. The product settings tab that assigns folders to zones is called Material groups. The configurator node type that shows a swatch step in the menu is also called Material group. Inside a zone card, the chip on each assigned folder reads FOLDER. They are all the same thing: a named set of materials.

A folder is virtual — it is the name shared by its materials, not a record. It comes into existence when its first material is saved and disappears when the last material leaves. A material belongs to exactly one folder. See Material folders.

Material group

The product's older word for a folder, left on two screens that now mean different things by it.

• The Material groups tab in Product settings is where you assign folders to the zones of a model. Despite the tab's name, everything inside it says "zone" and "folder".
• The Material group node type in the configurator builder is a swatch step in your customer's menu — it offers the folders you tick, filtered across the whole configurator.

The rename to "folder" happened in the Materials library and was never carried to these two places. See Mapping zones to folders for the tab and Building a configurator for the node type.

material zone

The same thing as a zone. The Details tab in Product settings counts them this way — 4 material zones — while the Material groups tab calls each row a zone.

model

An uploaded 3D file. The sidebar nav item is Models; the page it opens is titled Products; the quota is called Products; the delete confirmation says it "frees a product slot". They all mean the same object. The intent behind the split is that a product is the sofa you sell and a model is the file — but the rename only landed in the sidebar, so you will meet both words on the same screen. See product and Uploading models.

part note

A short label pinned to a point on a model's surface — Solid oak leg, Brushed brass. Up to five per model, titles to 60 characters and bodies to 200. Your customer sees them only when they turn Notes on in the player. Notes are anchored in the model's own coordinates, so re-processing with a different source unit moves them. The caps are on Limits and supported formats.

primitive

One piece of a mesh, split off by your exporter at a material boundary. Each primitive becomes exactly one zone, and its position in the mesh — its slot — is how Vysora identifies that zone. One material assigned in your modelling tool gives one primitive gives one recolourable zone. See Preparing zones.

product

An uploaded 3D file, and the thing you sell. Interchangeable with model throughout the product: the nav says Models, the page says Products, and both open the same library. This site uses the word the screen you are looking at uses.

A product is also the unit your plan counts. See Limits and supported formats.

publish

The action that takes a snapshot of a configurator — its menu, its products, its whole material palette, your logo and business details — and serves it at a link. Publishing is the only thing that reaches a customer. Nothing you change in Studio appears in a live configurator until it is published again. Each publish mints a new version, and the link never changes between versions. See Publishing.

quote request

A customer's enquiry, sent from the Request quote form in your published configurator. Quote requests land in Orders, under the Quote requests tab, with the configuration the customer built. They arrive silently — the only signal is the counter on the Orders nav item. The form comes with every published configurator.

republish

Publishing a configurator that is already live, to push your changes to it. Product edits, material edits, brand and business details, and a deleted product's stale reference are all invisible to customers until you republish.

One change needs more than a republish: if you rename a material folder, the folder must be re-picked on the product first, and then the configurator republished. A republish on its own leaves the old name in place. See Material folders.

Showroom

One of the three Vysora product lines, for cars, bikes and large goods. A Showroom configurator holds exactly one hero product and can offer an exploded view and per-part show/hide. Product settings calls its scale pane Size & scale and offers a Display size slider. Its published-configurator allowance is larger than the Studio line's — see Limits and supported formats. Compare Atelier and the Studio line.

slot

The position of a primitive within its mesh, counting from 0. The slot is the identity of a zone — not the material's name, because material names collide. A 3ds Max Multi/Sub-Object export can produce four zones where three of them are called ASH; what tells them apart is slot 0, slot 2 and slot 3. Zone cards show it on the technical line, as ASH · slot 0.

Slot order follows material-slot order in your modelling tool, so reordering material slots after a configurator is built re-addresses the zones. See Preparing zones.

source unit

The unit your model was authored in — Meters, Centimeters, Millimeters or Inches — declared at upload, or corrected later in Product settings with Source unit and Re-process. Vysora normalises everything to metres, and the snap grid, the customer's dimension readout, placement and camera framing are all metre-denominated, so a wrong unit breaks all of them together.

Auto-detect guesses from size alone. It never detects inches, misreads anything genuinely over 8 m, and misreads millimetre models under 800 mm. Declare the unit. See Source units and scale.

the Studio line

One of the three Vysora product lines, for furniture and interiors. A Studio-line configurator holds many products, and its customers place and arrange them on a floor with snapping. Product settings calls its scale pane Placement. Exploded view, part show/hide and display size do not exist on this line.

"Studio" on its own is ambiguous in the product: it is both this SaaS line and the name of the dashboard you are signed in to. This site writes "the Studio line" or "the Studio plan" for the product line, and "Studio" for the dashboard. See Vysora Studio.

swatch

One material shown as a pickable option on a part. The swatches a customer sees on a zone are every material in the folders assigned to it. The swatch carrying a green ring is the default the part wears when the configurator opens; a grey Auto tag means nothing is pinned and the first material of the first non-empty folder is used. Swatches are built in the Materials library.

Unfiled

The bucket for anything you have not filed: every model with no tags in the product library, every material with no folder in the Materials library. It is not a real collection or folder — it always sorts last, and it cannot be renamed. See Uploading models and Material folders.

Vysora Player

The published configurator itself: the 3D viewer your customer uses, which Studio embeds in an iframe on your site. The preview pane in the builder is the player, loading the last published version — not your draft. See Publishing.

Vysora Studio

The dashboard you sign in to: Products, Materials, Configurators, Orders, Plan and billing. On second and later mentions this site calls it Studio.

Take care with the name — see the Studio line, which is the entry SaaS product line and a different thing.

workspace

Your team's home in Vysora — its models, materials, configurators, brand, plan and members. A workspace belongs to exactly one product line, so an account that holds Studio, Showroom and Atelier holds three separate workspaces, each billed separately. The Switch button in the sidebar appears only when your account owns more than one. Quotas are per workspace — see Limits and supported formats.

zone

One independently recolourable part of a model. Vysora derives zones from your export: each primitive — each material boundary your exporter split at — becomes one zone, identified by its mesh name and slot.

Zones are the rows in the Material groups tab of Product settings, where each one can be assigned folders. The Details tab calls the same things material zones. You cannot create, merge or split zones in Studio — they come from the model, so changing them means re-exporting.