Best 3D Viewers
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What are 3D Viewers?
3D viewers software is used to view and interact with 3D file types and 3D objects on a computer. It provides an intuitive user interface, allowing users to rotate and zoom in on 3D models. Many of these viewers come with collaboration tools, enabling users to work together on the same model. Additionally, they offer advanced features such as simulation, version control, and scripting for more complex usage. Compare and read user reviews of the best 3D Viewers currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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ABViewer
CADSoftTools
ABViewer is universal software for PC for working with drawings. It enables you to view, edit, convert, measure and print DWG and other CAD files, as well as 3D models and raster images. You can work with a separate fragment of a drawing or, on the contrary, with a group of files. All this at an attractive price! ABViewer allows converting single files or a group of files. Batch conversion provides a wide range of export settings, for example, black-and-white mode, specifying the output file size, etc. The 3D section panel has controls for setting up visual display of 3D models and section planes. The panel is available in the 3D Viewer mode. The commands and options of the 3D Section panel enable to customize 3D model viewing. To display parts of a model, section and gizmo use the settings located at the top of the form. It is possible to create several planes at the same time.Starting Price: $48 -
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Apowersoft CAD Viewer
Apowersoft
An easy-to-use, yet full-featured CAD software that can view, annotate, measure, edit and convert your drawings quickly. Anyone can open and view all versions of AutoCAD drawings completely and accurately, and even edit and model their designs quickly and easily due to its exclusive analytical technique. No matter if it's a higher or lower DWG file, this CAD software allows you to open it without such problems as unclear fonts, wrong mild steel types, inexplicable Latin character garbled, etc. It also has a useful toolkit to modify and re-model the designs.You can annotate your drawings with text, linear, ellipse, rectangle, etc. In addition, add annotative dimensions to the objects in your draft without damaging the quality including linear, radial, angular, ordinate, arc length, etc. Measure the distance, angle, radius, area, volume, arc length, coordinate, and even edit the drawings as you go.Starting Price: $19.95 -
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Reydar
Reydar
Our immersive 3D, AR, and metaverse solutions are designed to bring your products to life anytime, anywhere. Immersive 3D products are at the heart of the metaverse, but bringing your 3D asset to life across the web, augmented reality, and beyond is complex and costly. That all changes with Reydar. We are adding a new dimension to product experiences, allowing you to unleash your product’s potential on a wide range of devices and in augmented and virtual spaces. Place products in the real world and explore them in high-quality and photorealistic 3D with Reydar 3D and AR viewers. Point Of Purchase displays and merchandising for your product ranges and collections with the Reydar 3D Viewer or Reydar Apps and Metaspaces’s. Ping products to life in context with a virtual branded store, showroom, or environment with a Reydar Virtual Metastore and Metaspace. High-quality 3D model creation, optimization, and management for web, AR, and the metaverse.Starting Price: Free -
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DWG TrueView
Autodesk
View and convert 2D and 3D DWG files for free. Open DWG files or convert them to work with older versions of AutoCAD software. DWG is a technology environment that includes the capability to mold, render, draw, annotate, and measure. It is also a reference to .dwg, the native file format for AutoCAD and many other CAD software products. Autodesk created .dwg in 1982 with the very first launch of AutoCAD software. DWG files contain all the information that a user enters in a CAD drawing. This data can include designs, geometric data, maps and photos. The .dwg file format is one of the most used design data formats, found in nearly every design environment.Starting Price: Free -
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Microsoft 3D Viewer
Microsoft
Easily view 3D models and animations in real time. 3D Viewer lets you view 3D models with lighting controls, inspect model data and visualize different shading modes. In Mixed Reality mode, combine the digital and physical. Push the boundaries of reality and capture it all with a video or photo to share. Quickly view common 3D file types: FBX, STL, OBJ, GLB, GLTF, PLY, and 3MF, with high-quality staging. Use simple pan, zoom, and orbiting controls with your mouse, touch, pen, or keyboard. Inspect the 3D model’s mesh, texture, material, and animation data. View 3D files in different shading modes such as smooth, wireframe on smooth, texture passes, and more. Control the position and color of the staging lights. 3D Viewer version 7.2003.11022.0 and later versions include important security updates.Starting Price: Free -
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Materialise MiniMagics
Materialise
If you’re working with a 3D printing service provider, you need a tool that allows you to view files compatible with 3D printing and communicate efficiently with your account manager. MiniMagics is our free STL and 3MF viewer that allows you to see the same file your account manager sees. With MiniMagics, you can view STL files, perform measurements, and communicate your remarks to others. Thanks to commenting features, communication between account managers and customers are smoother than ever. Sign off on printable parts with the viewer to reduce scrap, thus improving the use of materials and printing time and costs. Rotate, pan, and zoom parts; inspect the inside of parts with transparent and cross-section views; make the distance, circle, and angle measurements. View dimension, volume, surface, and mesh information, see diagnostics and add text annotations to be included in .magics files. Support .stl, .magics,. mgx, and .3mf files.Starting Price: Free -
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The STL Viewer is FREE software for the visualization of STL or OBJ meshes created in packages such as 3D Studio Max, MAYA, and Z Brush, modeled in CAD systems, or generated from 3D digitalization of physical objects. With its simplified user interface, fast rendering, and ability to handle even big volumes of data the STL Viewer is an ideal tool for examining polygonal meshes. STL file format is a common format for 3D digitizing, rapid prototyping, animation, and 3D data archiving software. If you receive triangular mesh data containing CAD models, scan data, or 3D designs you can quickly see it in the viewer. You may also find it useful if you are a company or person providing such data to your customers and need a visualization tool to give away with it. Loading polygonal meshes in STL and OBJ file formats. Quickly resetting the object in default views, front, back, left, right, top and bottom.Starting Price: Free
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STLView
STLView
STLView is a free STL viewer optimized for Windows 8 Touch and Honeycomb (Android 3.0), compatible with Android 2.2. STL file viewer that supports both binary and ASCII formats. Use the device's Gyro/G-sensor to view the model from different perspectives. Optimized for large models using fast graphics. Charge multiple models at once.Starting Price: Free -
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Viz4D
Viz4D
Viz4D helps you create top-performing web-based 3D viewer that works great on mobile and VR. It is tailored for real-time Archviz walkthrough, 3D product configurator and presentation. Thanks to the unique sets of AutoOptimization tech, even a complex architectural scene with multi-millions poly now can be viewed easily on standalone VR headset without connecting to PC. Viz4D is being used in various fields to create VR showroom, real estate 3D walkthrough tour, virtual gallery, museum, furniture and WebGL product configurator in VR.Starting Price: $35 -
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ShapeDiver
ShapeDiver
Go beyond a simple online configurator and create a truly powerful online co-design application. Visualize complex products in 3D. Improve conversion rates. Generate production files in a few seconds. Completely eliminate human error. Rhinoceros 3D and Grasshopper are powerful tools used by hundreds of thousands of professionals around the world. ShapeDiver provides the right features and scalable infrastructure to help you transform your Grasshopper files into powerful cloud applications. Share the power of parametric design with partners, clients and other key stakeholders wherever they are and regardless of their technical level. Uploading, setting up and sharing your first Grasshopper model on ShapeDiver takes just a few clicks. As easy a dragging and dropping a file! Want to go further? Combine our Grasshopper plugin, online 3D viewer and powerful APIs to create the perfect online application. The sky is the limit!Starting Price: $125 per month -
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Sketchfab
Sketchfab
The best 3D viewer on the web. Manage your 3D assets. Distribute 3D & AR experiences. Collaborate with others. Showcase your work. Buy & sell 3D models. Market-leading 3D player for the web. Share and embed 3D models anywhere online. Interactive and configurable, VR and AR ready. Works with all operating systems, browsers and devices. Embeddable everywhere, for eCommerce, advertising and social media.Starting Price: $79 per month -
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3DBrowser
Mootools
3DBrowser is an application dedicated to the management and optimization for your 3D content. It includes a 3D viewer, an image viewer linked to a powerful file explorer. Thanks to its agility and efficiency, 3DBrowser can be integrated into very different production pipelines: architecture, video games, scientific data, 3D printing, etc. Fast and efficient, it allows you to organize your 3D model libraries with the help of large customizable preview thumbnails. You can display, filter, sort, organize, search among your 3D scenes and images in order to find the exact model you need in few seconds. To make it easier to organize large 3D collections, you can document, annotate, categorize all your content to find them on your computer or local network. 3DBrowser facilitates interoperability between different 3D software. It will perfectly fit into a production pipeline including, for example, 3ds Max, Maya or Sketchup in conjunction with Unreal Engine or Unity.Starting Price: €89 per license -
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Autodesk Viewer
Autodesk
Autodesk Viewer supports most 2D and 3D files, including DWG, STEP, DWF, RVT, and SolidWorks. Quickly get the feedback you need with Autodesk Viewer's lightweight drawing and annotation tools. Autodesk Viewer lets you access and collaborate on your designs from any device or operating system. View DWG files or convert them to work with older versions of AutoCAD software. Add Design Review to mark up 2D and 3D files without the original design software. For greater flexibility consider Autodesk Viewer or AutoCAD web app. Get quick, anytime access to CAD drawings with the AutoCAD web app. View, edit, share, and create DWG files in a web browser on any computer. No software installation required. Use the drafting tools and commands you're used to. -
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CAD Assistant
Open Cascade
Open Cascade CAD Assistant is a powerful offline 3D CAD viewer and converter with simple and intuitive interface, free for both personal and commercial use. Originally developed as a testbed and showcase for the Open CASCADE Technology on mobile platforms, the solution has been appreciated as fast and handy 3D viewer by thousands of end-users on mobiles and desktops worldwide. CAD Assistant brings the power of open technologies to the hands of engineers working with 3D data. CAD Assistant is based on open source libraries (Open CASCADE Technology, Qt, FreeType, FreeImage, etc.) and employs open formats for CAD and mesh data (STEP, IFC, IGES, BREP, glTF, JT, PLY, STL, OBJ, 3DM). It also supports a set of other file formats like DXF, SAT (ACIS), XT (Parasolid). Viewing mesh models with associated data is an additional functionality included in CAD Assistant. Mesh can be read from files in PLY format.Starting Price: Free -
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Glovius CAD Viewer
Glovius
Simple and easy-to-use CAD Viewers with powerful tools for visualization, analysis, collaboration, reporting, and exporting CAD files. Take measurements, cut sections, compare revisions, analyze CAD parts and assemblies, create reports for collaboration, and export to STEP, 3DPDF, STL, and many more formats. Glovius comes with a free 2D viewer to view DWG, DXF, and CATDrawing files. View CAD files in your browser. No installation required. Upload and view popular CAD parts, assemblies, and drawing files. Link your Dropbox for automatic syncing. View 3D Geometry, Product Structure, PMI and GDnT, and Attributes information. Cut dynamic sections, take measurements, save Bill of Materials, and view essential component information. Share 3D files with a link, and embed models in websites. Glovius for iOS provides a simple and easy way to view, showcase, and collaborate on 3D CAD parts and assemblies from your iPhone and iPad, and view 3D parts and assemblies from popular CAD formats. -
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SUPERVIEW
TransMagic
SUPERVIEW is the perfect 3D CAD viewer for interactive viewing of 3D CAD files, complete with PMI / MBD information, the ability to interrogate, markup, measure and add dimensions, delivering superior accuracy for job quotes and the shop floor. Outputs optimized polygonal formats such as 3DPDF, WebGL, Obj and STL. Estimators can quote customers with more accuracy & speed, resulting in more business. Job Shops can view any major CAD format easily, sometimes doing away with more complex and expensive CAD seats. 3D Artists and Makers can reduce polygons and output optimized polygonal files for arts & entertainment as well as 3D Printing. Measure, dimension, and interrogate models with quickly and easily. SUPERVIEW can read any major 3D CAD format. Too many CAD formats to read? Need to measure and quote customer parts quickly and accurately? TransMagic SUPERVIEW allows you to view, interrogate, dimension and create reports for any major 3D CAD file on the planet. -
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Bentley View
Bentley
In addition to viewing 3D models, you can use Bentley View as a free CAD viewer with capabilities to search for objects, measure distances and areas accurately, and print drawings to scale with full fidelity, on every desktop, for free. With millions of users, Bentley View is the industry's most powerful free viewer. In addition to being the most popular AutoCAD reader, you can view over 50 file formats, including CAD and raster images as well as Bentley's uniquely powerful iModels. You can easily open DWG and open DXF designs with the same fidelity as the authoring software. More than just a free DWG viewer, some of Bentley View’s recent enhancements in the latest CONNECT Edition include newly added format support and advanced viewing features. If all you need is to view CAD files, then Bentley View is a great free solution! If you also need to edit them to generate drawings, models, and visualizations, you might consider MicroStation PowerDraft. -
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3D-Tool
3D-Tool
With 3D-Tool you can check 3D models without an expensive CAD system. The intuitive operation and user-friendly program interface do not require any special CAD knowledge. Simple mouse actions allow you to zoom and rotate models, show and hide parts and assemblies, and create cross-sections and exploded views. With 3D-Tool you print drawings true to scale, edit or delete drawing elements and add dimensions and markups. 3D-Tool supports 2D drawings in the formats DXF, DWG, HPGL and, in the Premium version, also drawings from CATIA and SolidWorks. Use 3D-Tool to coordinate constructions in the company as well as with customers and suppliers. 3D-Tool publishes models as directly executable EXE files or as DDD files for the 3D-Tool Free Viewer. Both EXE files and the free Viewer have the 3D-Tool tool palette. 3D-Tool also creates 3D PDF files for the widely used Adobe Acrobat Reader. In this way, 3D models also reach users who do not want or are not allowed to install special software.Starting Price: $182.73 per license -
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JOIN
Digi Corp
JOIN is a BIM tool software developed to freely manage parameters and attributes in the IFC standard. It aims to manage all the information of a BIM model, extracting data in order to take decision in a construction project. The main features help to manage the Costs (BIM 5D) and Times (BIM 4D) in a construction projects. A 3D viewer is included to help you work with the model and the data. With JOIN the various players in the AEC sector can integrate the model with economic, technical, temporal and managerial data. These are essential to obtain constantly updated and consistent information at all stages of design, construction and maintenance of the building. The data are synchronized bidirectional between the model, the gantt chart and the costs estimate. -
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BIM Publisher
Innobrix
The best BIM viewer! With the BIM publisher you are able to easily present your BIM model online in a high-quality web viewer. This way you involve the home buyer in the process and prevent miscommunication. For a home buyer without an understanding of the subject matter, 2D drawings are sometimes difficult to understand. With the BIM publisher from Innobrix you prevent this problem and you are able to communicate in 3D. In addition, the home buyer can also virtually furnish his/her future home & view it in Virtual Reality with the Oculus Quest 2. In short, better expectation management and more satisfied customers!Starting Price: $125 -
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3D_Analyzer
CoreTechnologie
3D CAD Viewer to review and analyze models from all major native and standard CAD formats with assemblies-structure, B-rep, tesselation, features and parameter as well as metadata, PMI and annotations. Precise measuring, cut and annotation functions based on B-REP Models. Fast Creation of exploded views with automatic and manual functions. 3D_Analyzer is the perfect tool for project management tasks. It is not only a Viewer for all major CAD formats, it also provides a wide range of easy to use and powerful 3D inspection computations such as comparison of geometry, PMI and assembly-structure, collision and clearance detection as well as wall thickness, draft and undercut analysis. Share your files, you can easily export the CAD files to the 3D-PDF format. Additionally you can also save the analysis results to 3D-PDF and exchange it with your colleagues, suppliers or customers. -
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DMU Reviewer
Open Cascade
High performance software for democratized CAD viewing throughout the whole product lifecycle. A powerful yet easy to use, DMU Reviewer is available on computers and tablets with Windows OS, supporting extremely heavy CAD files containing up to thousands parts. DMU Reviewer comes with a robust feature set for 3D models visualization and navigation, geometric measurements, detailed analysis, etc. Accessible to a large number of stakeholders, the solution supports most popular 3D file formats as well as 2D drawings. A lightweight CAD files viewer enables easy and quick navigation throughout large 3D models in order to perform comprehensive design review. Rich capabilities allow speedy communication and sharing of the information among all project collaborators. DMU Reviewer enables competent verification for specifications compliance thanks to the capability to read product manufacturing information (PMI), GD&T, annotations, views and rich functionality. -
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SimLab CAD Viewer
SimLab
SimLab CAD Viewer is a mobile application that allows you to view and navigate, on the go, computer-aided 3D designs and architectural models on iOS and Android devices. SimLab CAD Viewer reads the SimLab Archive File (.ZIM) exported either from SimLab Composer or the Android/iPad Exporter plug-in which is available for SketchUp, Rhino, SolidWorks, Inventor, 3ds Max, Maya, and Modo. The SimLab Archive Files (.ZIM) include all the necessary data needed for displaying models on smartphones and tablets. The data include geometries, colors, materials, textures, cameras, scene states, and animations. SimLab CAD Viewer is currently available for free and can be downloaded from the App Store (iOS) and Google play (Android). Upon launching SimLab CAD Viewer, list of pre-installed sample models appears to the user allowing him/her to start quickly in demonstrating the capabilities and the features that SimLab CAD View offers. -
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Carlson iCAD
Carlson Software
Carlson iCAD is an affordable CAD program that works with both .dwg and .dgn files and is designed to fit into your production workflow. Carlson iCAD allows drafters to finish drawings and engineers to review drawings. Functions include move, copy, erase, offset, trim. Smooth, reduce, reverse and edit polylines. Create polylines from lines and arcs. Carlson iCAD has a 3D viewer window that provides 3D display of drawing entities with lighting controls. Set plan rotation for drawing display. Show tooltip of properties as move cursor over entities. The customized user interface helps to control ribbons, menus and workspaces. Commands to label areas defined by linework boundaries. -
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CityCAD Viewer
Holistic City Software
CityCAD Viewer is a free tool for opening and exploring URB-format models created with CityCAD. It is completely free of charge and does not require any user registration or product activation. You cannot draw or modify elements such as streets or buildings, but you can use CityCAD Viewer to change assumptions on costs, values, sustainability information and other settings for each land use. We created CityCAD Viewer to help CityCAD users share their city models with colleagues, clients and other stakeholders. It is intended to enable easier collaboration on masterplanning projects. Open, explore and save CityCAD models. Select elements in a CityCAD model and view information about them. Change the group or phase of elements in a city model. View all city analysis panels (except the ‘advisor’ tab and advanced appraisal features). Add and edit simple costs and values to elements. Export images, reports, data and KML files. Access online database information. -
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DDS-CAD Viewer
Data Design System
Thanks to its advanced interpretation of IFC data, the DDS-CAD Viewer is indispensable for the BIM scene. It is a free tool used for viewing, analyzing, merging, and discussing BIM models worldwide. In addition to IFC, the DDS-CAD Viewer supports data formats common to the AEC industry such as DWG, gbXML and 3ds. View, check, edit or create IFC, BCF, gbXML and DWG files. Intuitive 3D navigation options. Multidisciplinary clash detection. Visualization filters for analyzing model information. Integrated BCF manager. Advanced interpretation of IFC data. The DDS-CAD Viewer allows you to open and analyze different file formats such as DWG files and the OPEN BIM file format IFC. Various navigation options are available. The latest DDS-CAD Viewer provides an interdisciplinary clash detection, allowing you to automatically analyze models on design issues. The integrated BCF manager enables you to seamlessly communicate these issues. -
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VEERUM
VEERUM
The application is easy to deploy and is up and running in 48 hours. No specialized hardware or software is required. Optimize the investments you’ve made in other technologies and data sources. VEERUM is customizable and allows for seamless integration with existing digital platforms. Share with unlimited users, including third-party contractors. Accelerated ability to unlock the value of your existing data. With VEERUM Smart Site, you can integrate data sources to enrich the visual model of an asset. You determine the sources of information and create a customized solution. Common information sources include Maximo, SAP, OSI Pi, document management systems, real-time IoT devices, and many others. Enrich your organization's visual data by unifying all of your existing asset information in the context of a 3D viewer. Visualize the latest CAD designs, reality scans, and 2D plot plans in the same viewer to verify site conditions.
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