Short, practical guides to parts, materials and GLB files — written for people who have a model and a deadline, not a modelling course.
01 / Guide
A practical guide to changing one part of a 3D model — selecting a part rather than a mesh, scoping repeated components, keeping the dimensions that must not move, and checking the result. With free part-named GLB models to practise on.
7 min read · 7 sections
Read the guide02 / Guide
What a GLB actually contains, which tools open it, how to edit one part of it and export it again without losing part names or materials — plus free GLB models to try it on.
6 min read · 5 sections
Read the guide03 / Guide
Assigning materials per part, what base colour, metallic and roughness actually do, why a material swap can look wrong even when the values are right, and how to keep materials through an export.
6 min read · 5 sections
Read the guide04 / Guide
A practical comparison of GLB, glTF, OBJ, STL, FBX and USDZ — what each format keeps, what it silently drops, and which to choose for editing, for the web, for a game engine and for printing.
5 min read · 5 sections
Read the guide01 / Professional practice
Explore scoped geometry revisions, material studies and context-aware iteration on the models your team already uses.
Explore professional workflows ↗02 / Reference
Convert to GLB before editing. What you lose is lost at the conversion, not in Refora — so choose the export path deliberately.
Up axis and unit scale travel through a revision unchanged; they are not corrected for you. Fix them on export from the source tool.
| Source | Export via | Survives | Lost at conversion | Up / units |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revit | glTF exporter, or IFC → GLB | Part names, grouping, PBR materials | Parameters, families, schedules | Z-up, mm |
| IFC | IFC → GLB converter | Element hierarchy, names | Property sets, classification | Z-up, mm |
| Rhino | glTF export | Layers as nodes, mesh geometry | NURBS surfaces, history | Y-up, model units |
| SolidWorks | STEP → GLB | Assembly tree, part names | Parametric features, mates | Z-up, mm |
| Blender | glTF 2.0 export | Hierarchy, PBR, UVs | Modifier stack, drivers | Y-up on export, m |
| OBJ | Direct import to GLB | Geometry, groups | PBR materials, hierarchy depth | Undefined — declare it |
03 / Reference
Where a figure is missing below, it is missing because it has not been measured yet. Requirements are published when they are measured rather than estimated, so this panel will fill in over the early-access period.
The full list of what works, what is in testing and what is not claimed lives on product limitations.
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