Before interacting with your data or visualizing anything in 3D, it's important to understand the fundamental building blocks of LiquidEarth. These elements define how your work is structured, stored, visualized, and shared.

In LiquidEarth, every project is composed of three core types of elements:

Element Type	Role	Can Contain	Contained By
Space	The container for an entire project. A space is required to upload or manage any data.	Content, Blocks	—
Content	Represents imported or created 3D data (e.g., meshes, boreholes, rasters, Object3D shapes).	Blocks	Space
Block	Modular tools or annotations (e.g., notes, views, sketches, clipping planes). Enhance interpretation or storytelling.	—	Space or Content

🔹 Spaces: Your Project’s Container

A Space is the root of any project in LiquidEarth. You must create or load a space before adding any data or annotations. It serves as the organizing unit and the container for everything else — content, visual settings, and collaboration.

Spaces can be shared, duplicated, or made available offline.
All uploaded content and blocks live inside a space.
Spaces can include visual guides such as a bounding box, gridlines, and axis labels.

For more details, see: Space

A space without any visible content or blocks. The bounding box, gridlines, and axis labels are enabled. A colored outline indicates the space is currently selected.

🔹 Content: Your 3D Data

Content elements are the actual data you’re working with in a project. This includes geological surfaces, boreholes, volumetric models, raster overlays, and more. It also includes user-added elements like Object3D shapes for guiding presentations or structuring narratives.

Each piece of content:

Is contained within a space
Has its own transform and visibility settings
Can have blocks attached to it for notes, clipping, sketching, and more

For more details, see: Content

A space with multiple surface meshes as content. One of the meshes is selected, indicated by a colored outline.