--- title: "Arkio 2.1 - Navisworks, fly mode and more! · Arkio" description: "Arkio 2.1 builds on our recent 2.0 release, enhancing Arkio further for design ideation, presentations, and reviews." url: https://www.arkio.is/blog/release2-1/ published: 2025-10-24 archived: true # written before Arkio 3.0; describes an earlier version --- # Arkio 2.1 - Navisworks, fly mode and more! Arkio 2.1 builds on our recent 2.0 release, enhancing Arkio further for design ideation, presentations, and reviews. This update brings key performance improvements, new integrations, and usability upgrades across all platforms. By Johan Hanegraaf, October 24, 2025 · 2 min read ![Arkio 2.1 - Navisworks, fly mode and more!](https://www.arkio.is/_astro/blog-whatsnew21-banner.BJAT0u2h_ZWQYcN.webp) _From the archive. This post is from October 2025, about Arkio 2.1, before Arkio 3.0 brought the AI design agent to the browser. See what’s new in Arkio 3.0_ Video: https://vimeo.com/1122892819 ## New Navisworks plugin We’ve added a new plugin for Navisworks. Enterprise users can now easily export Navisworks projects directly to Arkio. Models from Navisworks, like those from our other plugins, include north rotation, BIM data, and layer data that can be controlled directly in your Arkio scene. ![Navisworks](https://www.arkio.is/media/blog/release2-1/blog-whatsnew21-navisworks.gif) ## New VR flight mode For VR users who want to explore their designs more freely, Arkio now includes a fly navigation mode. Press the thumbstick forward or backward on your non-dominant hand to fly through your scene on VR and Mixed Reality headsets—an immersive alternative to traditional teleporting and panning. ![Fly mode](https://www.arkio.is/media/blog/release2-1/blog-whatsnew21-flymode.gif) ## SketchUp plugin improvements The SketchUp plugin has received a significant performance boost, enabling exports of large models up to ten times faster. We’ve also improved tag export to layers and added support for texture cutouts, commonly used for vegetation and detailed model elements in SketchUp. ## Sun tool on all devices The familiar Sun tool, previously available only in VR, is now also accessible on PC, Mac, iOS and Android. Adjust time, day, and month to simulate accurate lighting and shadows for your project location. ![Sun tool](https://www.arkio.is/media/blog/release2-1/blog-whatsnew21-suntoolvrless.gif) ## Cloud upload enhancements The Arkio Cloud page now supports drag-and-drop uploads, making it easier than ever to share images and 3D files across all your connected devices. ## Layer visibility controls From the review panel’s Layers tab, you can now control the visibility of sketches, notes, and frames in your Arkio scene. Any visibility changes are synchronized in real time for all participants in a shared meeting. ## AI camera enhancements Arkio’s AI camera has been refined for better usability, making it easier to switch between standard photos and AI-enhanced renderings. [Download Arkio](https://www.arkio.is/download/) on your preferred device and start a free 14-day Arkio Pro trial to give AI renderings a try today! ## Additional improvements This release also includes various other updates, such as: - Microphone highlights for voice transcriptions - Improved rendering quality on Meta Quest - Updated program area imports - Improved model import reliability - General bug fixes and performance enhancements ## And there’s more… Arkio 2.1 adds many other improvements, check out the full [2.1 release notes here](https://feedback.arkio.is/changelog/arkio-21). We’d love to hear from you in [the forums](https://community.arkio.is/) if you have any feedback on the new features and improvements in 2.1! ## Keep reading [All posts](https://www.arkio.is/blog/) - [Arkio 2.2.1 - Smarter AI renderings from every angle](https://www.arkio.is/blog/release2-2-1/) (Product update, June 5, 2026): Arkio 2.2.1 is a big step forward for the AI camera. This release gives you higher-quality AI renderings, a simpler rendering workflow, and a new way to guide AI results directly from your 3D scene using visual markups. - [Arkio 2.2 - Simpler workflows, movable objects and design collaboration for everyone](https://www.arkio.is/blog/release2-2/) (Product update, May 5, 2026): Arkio 2.2 is all about making immersive design collaboration easier to start, easier to share and more useful once you are inside your model. We are simplifying our pricing, streamlining plugin workflows and adding movable objects from Revit, Rhino and SketchUp so teams can test real design options together at human scale. - [Announcing version 2.0! 🚀](https://www.arkio.is/blog/release2-0/) (Product update, August 6, 2025): We are thrilled to announce the release of Arkio 2.0\. Our goal with 2.0 is to simplify key workflows while empowering you to do more with Arkio with new features like generative AI rendering, layers, Archicad support, collaborative frames, issue export and much more. ## What will you design first? Describe it in a sentence. The agent takes it from there. Start designing: [open the Arkio web app](https://app.arkio.is/?prompt=A%20garden%20studio%20with%20a%20green%20roof) and describe your idea, for example “A garden studio with a green roof”. The design agent uses AI credits. More ideas to try: A 3-bedroom family house; Open up my kitchen; A primary school for 300 pupils; Massing for a mixed-use block. AI credits required · Runs in your browser · No 3D skills needed ![A finished design in colour among grey neighbours](https://www.arkio.is/_astro/film_4.D103mK7s.svg) --- Arkio: Arkio turns sketches, words and floor plans into real 3D designs with an AI agent. Share a link, then walk through it before anything is built. Start designing at https://app.arkio.is. All pages for AI agents: https://www.arkio.is/llms.txt