Microsoft Office is updated in so many ways. Depending on how soon you want to see these updates, you can receive only thoroughly tested features, or you can play with new ones. If you prefer the latter, then you may be wowed by the new update that shows up as part of their Office Insider Fast program. PowerPoint and many other Office programs can now insert and manipulate 3D models.
Imagine inserting a 3D model on your slide–almost as if you were inserting a picture or a media clip!
To use the 3D features in PowerPoint, this is what you need:
As of now, PowerPoint can insert 3D models in these formats:
If most of these 3D formats sound alien to you, then just visit a site such as Turbosquid that provides an extensive number of free 3D models. You will have to be a member though to download the free 3D models too. Also, not everything on the Turbosquid site is free.
So I downloaded a basic 3D DNA Helix model as an OBJ file and placed it on a PowerPoint slide. Kudos to Microsoft that this worked seamlessly.
Note that there are three ways in which you can play with the 3D model inside PowerPoint and other Office programs:
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