How to turn a PDF manual into a 3D model
Drop a PDF manual or datasheet on Koi's notch and it builds the thing in 3D, with the manual's own steps as captions you can click. No call, no prompt.
The idea
Nobody reads the manual
You know the one. Forty pages, tiny grey diagrams, step 7 refers to part C, and part C is on page 3. You give up and watch a YouTube video from someone with a different model.
So we gave the notch a new drop spot. Drag the manual up there, drop it on Visualize, and Koi builds the thing in 3D with the manual's own steps as captions. Click step 7 and the camera flies to part C.
How it works
Drag, drop, watch
- Drag a PDF, a datasheet or a picture of a diagram up to the notch.
- Three spots open: Files Tray, Visualize and AirDrop. Drop it on Visualize.
- The notch says Reading…, then Building…, and the model appears part by part.
- Turn it, zoom in, click through the steps.
No call, no prompt, nothing to type. Koi reads about thirty pages and looks at the pictures on the first six, which covers most quick-start guides.
Keep it
Save it for next time
Save a PNG, or save the scene as a .koi file. Double-click it the next time the shelf wobbles and it opens in Koi again, still turning, at no cost.
Honest limits
What it won't do
- It's a model of how the thing goes together, not a CAD file. Don't machine parts from it.
- A very long document is read from its start, so a 300-page service manual gets its first chapters.
- It counts against your plan's Koi. The document goes to Koi's AI once to build the model, and nothing of it is kept.
Step by step: how to turn a PDF manual into a 3D model. The same 3D scenes show up on a call when you ask Koi how something works.
Keep exploring
Ask Koi how something works, and it draws it
On a call, Koi now explains with a picture: a sketch drawn by its pointer, or a 3D model built part by part that you can turn. Save it as a .koi file.
Your notch, put to work
Koi lives in your MacBook's notch. Hover it for Talk, Chat, Dictate and Record, see Spotify, AirPods and battery there, drop files on it to AirDrop, read a script.
How to see how something works in 3D on your Mac
Ask Koi out loud how something works and it builds a 3D model or a sketch beside it while it explains. Turn it, click its steps, and save it to your Desktop.
Support
Frequently asked questions
Drag a file up to the notch. Visualize is the middle of the three spots that open.
No. Visualize works on its own, without a call.
No. It goes to Koi's AI once to build the model, and nothing of it is kept.