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Figma and Sketchfab

Connect your Figma and Sketchfab accounts to bring designs and 3D models into your projects.

  • Figma — bring a frame into a scene or an interface card. Sizes, colours and text stay as they are, so there is nothing to redraw.
  • Sketchfab — download models through your own account instead of the shared key.

Both work the same way. You give AR Clip a personal key (a token), and AR Clip then uses the service as you.

Connect an account​

Integrations are in your account settings, not inside a project. The key belongs to you and works in every project you open.

  1. Create a token in Figma or Sketchfab, as shown below.
  2. Enter it on the integrations page in your account settings.
Never paste a key into a chat

AR Clip never asks for a key in a chat. If the assistant asks you to paste a token into a conversation, do not. Enter it on the integrations page and nowhere else.

Your key is stored encrypted and is never shown again. The page shows only its last few characters, so you can tell which key is connected.

Get a Figma token​

Figma → Settings → Security → Personal access tokens → Generate new token

File content: Read-only is enough. AR Clip only reads your designs, so do not give it write access.

Get a Sketchfab token​

Sketchfab → Settings → Password & API → API token
Why you need your own key

Figma files are visible only to the people who can open them. A shared key would see a different set of files from yours — usually none at all. The same goes for Sketchfab models that are not public.

If keys cannot be saved

If the integrations page says keys cannot be stored securely yet, nobody can save a key until an administrator fixes this.

Import a Figma design​

Paste the link to a frame (copy it straight from Figma), or the file key. AR Clip reads the frame and builds one of two things:

  • A scene — the layout rebuilt as 3D objects, with sizes, colours, text and images.
  • An interface card — the layout rebuilt as a UI card. A designed screen usually works best this way.
Copy one frame, not the whole file

Select the frame in Figma before you copy the link. A whole marketing page turns into hundreds of layers and a scene nobody can work with. You almost always want one section.

Each import is limited to about 900 layers and 200 images. Anything bigger takes minutes to upload and is rarely worth importing whole.

These import well: frames, groups, rectangles with their corner radii, strokes, text with its size and colour, and images. Anything that exists only as a Figma effect does not. Expect a good starting point that may need some touch-ups, rather than a pixel-perfect copy.

Import a Sketchfab model​

Sketchfab is one of the sources in the Asset library panel, on the 3D model tabs. Search it like any other source. When you import a model, it is copied into your project.

The search shows public models that their authors let you download. A model imports when Sketchfab offers it as GLB, which is true for most of them.

Downloads go through your own key when you have connected one, and through a shared key otherwise.

Check the licence

Every Sketchfab model has its own licence. "Downloadable" does not mean "free to use in a commercial project". Read the licence on the model's page before you publish.

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