Create an account, upload a Revit family, shape the configurator and get a working embed on your own product page — the whole path, step by step.
This walks through the whole thing once: account, upload, conversion, a look at the configurator, and the iframe on your own page. Allow about twenty minutes, most of which is the conversion running while you do something else.
What to have ready. One Revit family (.rfa). If it has a type catalogue, have the matching .txt too. If you do not have a family to hand, an FBX or OBJ works for everything except the type catalogue step.
Sign up at /signup with a work email address. The first account you create also creates an organisation — everything you upload belongs to it, and colleagues you invite later join the same one.
If a colleague has already set VUE up, ask them to invite you instead. You will get a link that puts you in the existing organisation rather than starting a second one alongside it.
Go to Models → Upload family. Drop in the .rfa. If the family uses a type catalogue, add the .txt as well — without it VUE only sees the types embedded in the family itself, which for a catalogue family is usually one.
VUE checks the file, counts the types and shows you what it found before anything is converted. If the family has more types than your plan allows in one model, it says so here rather than halfway through.
Conversion runs in the background and the page updates itself — you do not need to keep it open. A family with a handful of types is usually a couple of minutes; a large catalogue family is longer, because every type is converted.
The time it takes comes off your plan’s conversion allowance. See plans and conversion time for how that is measured, and how conversion works for what the statuses mean.
Open the model. You get the viewer, a list of types, and the panels that control how it is presented. Spin it, switch between a few types, and check the materials look like the product.
If a material is wrong or missing, that is usually fixable without re-uploading — see materials and finishes.
VUE reads the family’s parameters and works out which of them vary between types. Those become the controls a visitor sees: a size dropdown, a row of finish swatches. Everything that is merely a consequence of the choice becomes a specification readout instead.
It is worth two minutes of curation. Rename an axis Revit calls TypeName to something a specifier would recognise, reorder the controls, and hide anything internal. Full detail in types and the configurator.
Spin and zoom the model until it looks how you want a visitor to first see it, then save that as the start view. This matters more than it sounds: it is the frame that appears on your product page, and the default camera angle rarely flatters a specific product.
While you are there, pick a lighting environment that suits the product — Studio for a packshot look, Outdoor for anything that lives outside. See presentation.
Open the Embed tab. Choose the viewer options you want — whether the type switcher shows, whether the controls appear only on hover, whether AR is offered — and copy the iframe.
Paste it into your product page. It is a plain iframe with no script tag, so it works in any content management system that allows embedded HTML.
Before you go live, add your website’s domain to the embed’s allowed list. An embed with no list works anywhere, which is convenient while you are testing and not what you want in production — it means anyone who views the source of your page can put your model on theirs.
Once the page is live, Analytics shows how many people saw the model, how many interacted with it, which types they switched to and whether anyone placed it in their room with AR. The type-change figures are the interesting ones — they are a record of which sizes and finishes people actually ask for.
The two articles worth reading properly once the first model is up are types and the configurator, because it is the feature that distinguishes a VUE embed from a 3D file on a website, and embeds and the viewer, which documents every option on that panel.