3D Scene provides two View modes: Plane Scene and Spherical Scene. Among them, Spherical Scene refers to the display of the scene on the surface of the earth in the form of a spherical three-dimensional space simulating the earth. Plane Scene unfolds the spherical surface of the earth into a plane, and simulates the whole earth to display the scene in the form of a plane. Plane Scene is best used when the scene is relatively small, such as community panorama, building display or large equipment such as oil field derrick.

While most of the functions and operations supported by the two 3D View Modes are the same, there are several differences between them:

• Spherical Scene supports loading data of Geographic Coordinate System and Projected Coordinate System; Plane Scene supports loading data from Planar Coordinate System and Projected Coordinate System.
• Plane Scene does not support the display of elements such as Ocean, Atmosphere, Longitude and Latitude Net, and Graticules Label, while Spherical Scene supports the display of these elements.
• Loading and creating new KML data is not supported in Plane Scene. Spherical Scene supports loading and creating new KML data.