Action: Save Your Data (TXT, SVG, 3D)

You can export what you have measured from either a cube window or the app window. A standard file picker appears so you can choose where the file goes, and a brief "File saved." message follows. For what each format is good for, see Concept - File Types.

Save TXT (always available)

Save TXT writes a plain‑text report of the whole scene:

  • Every cube's World and Local location in meters, centimeters, feet, and inches, plus its rotation as a quaternion and as Euler angles (degrees and radians).
  • Every distance between cubes — the total, the X/Y/Z separation, and the angle, slope, pitch, and spirit‑level reading.
  • Every angle between cubes, in degrees and radians.
  • When exactly three cubes are present, the SVG drawing code is embedded in the text as well.

This is the complete record — use it to keep, share, or paste your measurements into another document.

Save SVG (exactly 3 cubes)

This one exists mostly for the joke — three points determine a plane — and is not much use otherwise. With three cubes, a Save SVG button appears. It saves a flat, scaled drawing of the triangle your cubes form, filled with a tinted pattern. Open it in any browser, drawing app, or vector editor. As of July 2026, the visionOS file browser will not open one directly.

Save 3D (4 or more cubes)

With four or more cubes, the geometry button reads Save 3D. Pressing it does not write anything yet: the scene clears and an export card appears, so you choose what goes in the file against the same empty room the file is written from.

What goes in the file

Six switches, each ON or OFF:

  • Solid — the textured shape through every cube. This is the same shape Show Solid draws in the room.
  • Wires — the cube‑to‑cube lines, with their quarter marks.
  • Cubes — see‑through cubes, each lettered.
  • Cube Locations — each cube's letter over its position.
  • Measurements — distance, slope, and pitch for every pair.
  • Angles — the angle at each cube between two others.

A seventh row, Coordinates, picks WORLD or LOCAL — which zero point the file is measured from, and which numbers are printed beside the cubes.

A note above the switches says what your choices will produce. With the solid on and anything else on, the shape is written see‑through so the wires, cubes, and readings show through instead of being swallowed. With the solid on by itself, it is written opaque. Turn everything off and there is nothing to write, so the save buttons go dim.

Your choices are remembered between launches, so a file you were happy with repeats next time.

Then pick a format

Three buttons write the same scene three ways:

  • Save USDZ — the full look, colors and textures included. Best for viewing.
  • Save OBJ — a plain mesh, no colors.
  • Save STEP — a solid model for CAD, no colors.

See Concept - File Types for what to pick and why.

If the file would be huge

Some combinations run to hundreds of megabytes. When yours does, the card stops and tells you roughly how big it would be, then offers Explain This To Me, Change What Is Included, or Write It Anyway. Nothing has been written at that point, so backing out costs you nothing. See Tips and Troubleshooting - 3D File Size.

Save and open a workspace

Everything above is a record you cannot reopen. A workspace file is the arrangement itself, saved so you can bring it back later or carry it to another headset.

  • Save Workspace writes a .spacecube file holding every cube's position and rotation. Each cube is pinned to its real spot first, so the file remembers where things physically were.
  • Open Workspace reads one back. The cubes come out exactly as Restore would put them, and that file becomes the arrangement Restore returns to from then on.

Restore only remembers your last arrangement; a workspace file keeps one for good. Both buttons are on the app window. See Action - Start, Restore, and Pause a Workspace.

Filenames

Exports are named automatically with the date and time, like SpaceCube_20260725_0330p.txt. You can rename them in the save picker.

Where the save happens

  • From a cube window — Save TXT and the geometry button sit in the top section of the window.
  • From the app window — Save TXT is always there, and the geometry button (SVG or 3D) appears when you have enough cubes. Save Workspace and Open Workspace sit in the top section.

While the picker is up, the rest of the scene hides. It all comes back when you finish or cancel.

If a save fails or is cancelled

Cancelling returns you to the scene. If a save fails, a message explains why. Exporting never changes your scene.