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If you are hosting your drawings & files on a remote server, check out their URLs. For us it looks something like this for a single 3D product visualization scene
https://files.renderdraw.us/renderings/public/gltf/clubcar/dtest3/XRT_850draco-processed.gltf
https://files.renderdraw.us/renderings/public/gltf/clubcar/dtest3/blob%3Ahttps%3A__sandbox%20image.png
https://files.renderdraw.us/renderings/public/gltf/clubcar/dtest3/blob%3Ahttps%3A__sandbox%20image_1.png
Notice anything? Let's take a look another way
@startwbs
<style>
wbsDiagram {
  ' all lines (meaning connector and borders, there are no other lines in WBS) are black by default
  Linecolor white
  RoundCorner 10
  BackgroundColor White
  arrow {
    ' Note that connector are actually "arrows" even if they don't look like arrows
    ' This is to be consistent with other UML diagrams. Not 100% sure that it's a good idea
    ' So now connectors are green at this level
    LineColor gray
    
  }
  :depth(0) {
      ' will target the "root" (first level) node,
      ' AND root level elements like Arrows (styled by Line styles)
      ' Note how it will override the
      BackgroundColor White
      RoundCorner 10
      LineColor gray
  }
}
</style>
* files.renderdraw.us
** renderings
*** public
**** gltf
***** clubcar
****** dtest3
******* XRT_850draco-processed.gltf
******* blob%3Ahttps%3A__sandbox%20image.png
******* blob%3Ahttps%3A__sandbox%20image_1.png
​
@endwbs
We are using remote resources like a file system in order to load 3D files for use with Salesforce. This is particularly useful when loading related assets such as textures and materials that are associated but not included in the converted 3D Drawing.
In the files above, we are utilizing the same file server hosted at https://files.renderdraw.us/. From there we separate into “renderings” and “public” sub directories, and on and on until we reach our actual file to render, in this case XRT_850draco-processed.gltf.
All of these files relate to a single drawing, and when we attempt to scale storing these for every product your organization will ever have, it starts becoming daunting. At the end of the day, whenever we interact with data within Salesforce, there might be an associated 3D drawing that should be displayed.
Let's take a look at how complex this can get by adding another 4 records to Salesforce that have representative 3D files & relationships.
Product 1:
	https://files.renderdraw.us/renderings/public/gltf/rockwell/6181P-19B3xxxxxx_1%20slot.glb
Product 2:
	https://files.renderdraw.us/renderings/public/gltf/rockwell/PVP7S%20R1%2004_assy.glb
Product 3:
	https://files.renderdraw.us/renderings/public/gltf/medtronics/PB560_Ventilator_(4096600).gltf
Product 4: 
	https://files.renderdraw.us/renderings/public/gltf/clubcar/dtest1/XRT_850draco-processed.glb
  https://files.renderdraw.us/renderings/public/gltf/clubcar/dtest1/blob%3Ahttps%3A__sandbox%20image.png
  https://files.renderdraw.us/renderings/public/gltf/clubcar/dtest1/blob%3Ahttps%3A__sandbox%20image_1.png
or visualized:
Drawing file not found
@startwbs
<style>
wbsDiagram {
  ' all lines (meaning connector and borders, there are no other lines in WBS) are black by default
  Linecolor white
  RoundCorner 10
  BackgroundColor White
  arrow {
    ' Note that connector are actually "arrows" even if they don't look like arrows
    ' This is to be consistent with other UML diagrams. Not 100% sure that it's a good idea
    ' So now connectors are green at this level
    LineColor gray
    
  }
  :depth(0) {
      ' will target the "root" (first level) node,
      ' AND root level elements like Arrows (styled by Line styles)
      ' Note how it will override the
      BackgroundColor White
      RoundCorner 10
      LineColor gray
  }
}
</style>
* files.renderdraw.us
** renderings
*** public
**** gltf
***** clubcar
****** dtest3
******* XRT_850draco-processed.gltf
******* blob%3Ahttps%3A__sandbox%20image.png
******* blob%3Ahttps%3A__sandbox%20image_1.png
****** dtest1
******* XRT_850draco-processed.glb
******* blob%3Ahttps%3A__sandbox%20image.png
******* blob%3Ahttps%3A__sandbox%20image_1.png
***** rockwell
****** 6181P-19B3xxxxxx_1%20slot.glb
****** PVP7S%20R1%2004_assy.glb
***** medtronics
****** PB560_Ventilator_(4096600).gltf
@endwbs
Notice how the size of the tree balooned? Many times references to 3D files are many to one, so it can be said for every record added to Salesforce of a given type that requires 3D visualization, at least one relationship will have to be maintained. Writing this relationship With RenderDraw's relationship management, these 3D drawings can be shared between different objects and usages within Salesforce. Common examples of this would be
3D Visualization on a product object
Configuration on a Quote Line object
Self-Service on an Asset Item through a Salesforce Community.
The underlying drawing doesn't change; only the use-case and object on Salesforce did.
In order to scale our 3D experiences in Salesforce, we need to establish a common way to render for all of a given records of its type. Creating a relationship leads to reproducable results at scale for Salesforce objects and related 3D drawings.
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