Compare the Top 3D Viewers as of November 2025

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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    KiCad EDA

    KiCad EDA

    KiCad EDA

    With the schematic editor you can create your design without limit, there are no paywalls to unlock features. An official library for schematic symbols and a built-in schematic symbol editor help you get started quickly with your designs. Make professional PCB layouts with up to 32 copper layers. KiCad now has a push and shove router which is capable of routing differential pairs and interactively tuning trace lengths. KiCad includes a 3D viewer which you can use to inspect your design in an interactive canvas. You can rotate and pan around to inspect details that are difficult to inspect on a 2D view. Multiple rendering options allow you to modify the aesthetic appearance of the board or to hide and show features for easier inspection. KiCad’s schematic capture is efficient, with all the tools you can expect for such a task. The interface focuses on productivity. There are no complexity limits, as large designs can be divided into hierarchical subsheets.
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    View it 3D

    View it 3D

    View it 3D

    Create amazing shopping experiences for your customers. The customer spends much more time interacting with the product in your e-commerce or app. Our 3D & AR viewer allows the customer to appreciate all the details of the product and its textures to make better purchasing decisions, increase the conversion rate and reduce returns. Thanks to 3D visualization, your customers can rotate the product and zoom in to see all the details. Then, augmented reality allows them to try your product at home in real size using their mobile phone camera before buying. Compatible with all devices directly from their browser without the need to download an app. Send us your instructions and we will create custom animations to amaze your customers. Animations can range from opening a furniture door to the limits of your imagination. Deliver more product information in an interactive way and increase engagement on your eCommerce.
    Starting Price: $19 per month
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    Reydar

    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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    ShapeDiver

    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

    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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    Autodesk Viewer
    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

    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
    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

    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
    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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    JOIN

    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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    JP Interactive Viewer

    JP Interactive Viewer

    JP Global Digital

    Brings substantial value to your Point Cloud, BIM models, and other 3D datasets by centralizing your projects in an easy-to-use, digital platform. JPIV allows you to share, visualize, manage, analyze, and generate insights from your 3D datasets by being your hub for point clouds, 3D meshes, BIM models, 360 images, project, and asset information. JPIV cloud-based capabilities allow everyone to quickly convert massive 3D datasets into actionable insights while improving collaboration between teams. Visualize, manage, and share your project with your stakeholders in a single platform. Leverage collaborative features, like the annotation tool, to improve communication flow among stakeholders. Perform visual inspections anytime, anywhere, with just an internet connection and a web browser. Overlay and visualize new components with BIM models, Point Cloud, and 360 images. Host all relevant project information and 3D data in the same platform, resulting in a single source of truth.
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    DMU Reviewer

    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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    Carlson iCAD

    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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    VEERUM

    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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