Overview
Snapshot turns any view of your project — 2D or 3D, including point cloud, CAD, and markups — into a polished, photorealistic image using AI, without leaving the platform. Choose from preset options, optionally set the environment, iterate changes with a brush, and save the result straight to your workspace (or download it to your desktop). It's built to help you create presentation-ready visuals for stakeholder engagement — proposals, consultations, and progress updates — in a few clicks.
Generated images are produced at 2K resolution, and each saved image is pinned to the exact location and camera view it was captured from, so your whole team can see it in context.
🔒 Permissions
Standard Snapshot is available to members with the role Workspace Contributor and above. Learn more about Workspace permissions here.
Enhanced Snapshot is available to members with the role Project Member, Admin, or Super Admin. Learn more about project roles here.
Each generation uses one token from your project's free Snapshot allowance.
How to use Snapshot
Set up your view. Position the camera in your workspace on the area you want to capture (2D or 3D). Keep your main subject framed and reasonably close — see Tips below.
Open Snapshot using its button in the toolbar at the bottom of the Workspace screen.
Choose what you'd like to do:
Download - before any enhancements are made you can download the original data view screenshot to your device.
Enhance Scene - fill in gaps in your survey data and render the view as a photorealistic image.
Enhance Scene + CAD - render a photorealistic image including your CAD/design view.
Custom prompt - type your own description or instruction.
(Optional) Set the scene. Under Environment, choose Weather, Time of day, and/or Season to reflect the conditions you want. Leave any unset to keep the snapshot as captured.
Click Generate to enhance your image.
Refine further (optional). Once you have an enhanced image you can keep improving it — each refinement creates a new version:
Annotate - generates labels for features in the image.
Feature Removal - brush over the feature(s) you want removed, then generate.
Feature Generation - brush the area where you'd like something added, type in what to generate.
Custom prompt - make a specific change in your own words.
Note: Use Reset to original at any point to go back to your starting view.
Save or download:
Save as photo markup (recommended) keeps the image in your workspace, pinned to the exact location it was captured from, so your team can view and collaborate on it in context. You can save multiple versions of the same view and download the one you want later.
Download saves the image to your device.
Tips and tricks
1. Camera angle and framing
Your camera position strongly affects the result:
Keep your main subject centred and the camera at a natural, reasonably close angle for the most accurate, realistic output.
Avoid extreme bird's-eye or very zoomed-out views with large empty (black) areas — these give the AI less context and can lead to hallucinated generation of features that aren't really there.
2. Let the presets do the work
The Enhance Scene and Enhance Scene + CAD presets are tuned to enhance your view while staying faithful to your actual data — you don't need to write a prompt. Use Custom prompt only when you need something specific the presets don't cover.
3. Be precise when adding or removing features
For Remove a feature or Add a feature, brush exactly over the area you want changed, so the AI knows precisely where to act. Clear, well-placed brush areas produce cleaner results. You can use scroll wheel or zoom buttons to zoom in further to the image and re-size the brush tool to get more precise brush strokes.
4. Iterate, then choose
Generate and ‘save as photo markups’ multiple versions of the same view and compare them before deciding which to download. Saving each as a photo markup lets you (and your team) review the options in the workspace and pick the best one — rather than downloading several to your device.
5. Set the scene intentionally
Environment presets (weather, time of day, season) change the mood and realism of the output. Match them to the story you're telling, and leave them unset when you want the scene kept as captured.
6. Edit photo markup location
You can edit the 3D position of the photo markup by clicking the blue pin and using the arrows to drag its position. Learn more about photo markups here.
Snapshot images are AI-generated enhancements of your project data. They're clearly labelled as AI-generated in the platform and are intended for visualisation and communication — they are not a survey or a substitute for survey-grade outputs or renders