| STL Capable Applications |
| 3D Compression Technologies |
Offers 3DCompress, a server-side application for preparing and compressing 3D object files, and 3DSee a freeware client-side 3D viewer for IE and Netscape browsers. Supports STL, PLY, 3DS, OBJ, LWO and other file types and runs on various flavors of MS Windows. |
| Able Software |
3D Doctor allows viewing MRI and CT scans in a 3D rendered image and can output files in a variety of formats, including STL. |
| Actify |
3D View is used to visualize, measure and markup 3D models without being required to have a full featured CAD system. Operates with numerous CAD applications. Spinfire is a similar product for web publishing. |
| CADCAM-E.COM, Inc. (CCE) |
EnSuite combines CAD file viewing and translation tools into a single application. |
| Cimmetry Systems |
Provides AutoVue visualization and collaboration software. It can view and mark-up over 200 different document formats including STL, Gerber, AutoCAD, MicroStation, Pro/ENGINEER, CATIA, Inventor, Mechanical Desktop, SolidWorks, Solid Edge, VRML and STEP. |
| Delcam PLC (UK) |
Offers a CAD translation program, PS-Exchange, which handles most popular formats and can also be used as a free viewer. |
| DeskArtes |
Offers View Expert, for viewing, measuring and communicating 3D CAD files. |
| FIT - Fruth Innovative Technologien GmbH (Germany) |
Supplies modular software, including some freeware, for general additive fabrication applications through subsidiary NetFabb. The company also supplies commercial software for converting CAD models into complex lattice structures for medical and other high-performance applications through its Selective Space Structures (3S) subsidiary. |
| Geometric Software (India) |
eDrawings RapidFire Lite is for publishing eDrawings from STL files and sharing them for collaboration. It converts STL files to a compressed format that can be sent over email for reviews. Retrieve the STL file from the published eDrawings file by using "Save As STL" function. |
| Geometry Systems Inc. |
Offers GSI Studio and GSI Mesh Studio for entertainment and engineering applications. The SW can directly control Minolta or Roland digitizers and has tools for mesh alignment, merging, smoothing, repair and other operations. Also provides GSI Crystal Studio for 2D and 3D laser sub-surface engraving applications, and GSI Viewer Studio for general 3D model viewing and display. |
| Indeed - Visual Concepts (Germany) |
The company's product amira® offers 3D file generation, surface modeling and rendering. It provides image segmentation and geometry reconstruction tools for creating 3D models from 3D image data such as CT, MRT, and confocal microscopy. Data can by output in various formats, including STL. Other fuctionality includes mesh editing and simplification, polygon reduction, file viewing, import and export of data in various formats.
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| Informative Graphics Corp. |
Provides Myriad 3D/2D Viewer with capabilities to view, rotate, print, measure, compare, markup, and save to PDF/TIFF/DWF formats. Supports AutoCAD, Inventor, SolidWorks, Solid Edge, Pro/E Wildfire, MicroStation and standard formats such as IGES, STEP, VRML, HPGL plot files, CGM, and TIFF. Saves to 3D DWF and STL. Myriad® 3D Reader is free software that views STL, VRML, 3D DWF and other file formats. |
| INUS Technology, Inc. (Korea) |
RapidForm 2000 reverse modeling software provides scanning, polygon, surfacing and rapid prototyping functions such as offsets. Also offers EXPLORER™, free 3D Data collaboration software, for data viewing, measurement, markup and analysis of inspection results. The software is also a viewer for 3D scanner native files, dense point clouds, polygonal meshes, curve, surface and solid data. |
| IVECS - Interactive Virtual Environment for the Correction of STL Files |
Shareware from Clemson University. Ensures shell-closure of STL files using intuitive visual aids. Allows parts to be virtually prototyped and can be viewed as a the equivalent of a "print-preview" function. |
| Lattice Technology, Inc. (Japan) |
The company produces XVL® (eXtensible Virtual world description Language), a highly-compressed 3D data format for most popular CAD files. A plug-in allows XVL® files to be included within Adobe Acrobat pdf files. |
| Marcam Engineering GmbH (Germany) |
VisCAM RP prepares CAD/CAM data for any rapid prototyping function, from the verification and repair of the source files to the generation of build-ready RP slice files, including hatches and support structures. VisCAM RP also offers direct processing of CAD surface data and RP slice data and support for color.
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| Materialise |
Mimics application permits Interfacing from CT or MRI Imaging to RP, CAD or FEA. Magics Communicator is a low-cost STL file viewer. |
| Okino Computer Graphics |
Offers PolyTrans and NuGraf for file conversion, viewing and rendering of 3D models and scenes. Interfaces to many CAD application and provides STL translation.
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| OpenRP |
A non-profit initiative spearheaded by Floating Point Solutions which aims at offering the RP industry an alternative mode of data exchange while maintaining compatibility with the industry standard STL file format. The idea is to provide a file format with expandable properties and backward compatibility. OpenRP offers free software to read and write RP files, plug-ins for widely used CAD applications, STL to RP converters, and more. |
| Right Hemisphere Software Ltd. (New Zealand) |
3D Exploration is a 3D viewer and translator with a Windows Explorer-like interface. It supports all popular 3D and 2D file formats. Navigation tools allow viewing 3D objects and scenes from any angle.
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| Ripplon Software Inc. (Canada) |
Provides 'topeScope, an interactive viewer and file translator for Mac computers, running under Mac OS X. In demo mode, 'topeScope is a free STL viewer. The Plus version can read and write a variety file formats such as stl, obj, ply and others, as well as perform a number of mesh operations.
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| Russian Academy of Sciences |
The Institution provides RP file compression and viewer programs. |
| Solid Concepts |
SolidView applications enable communication between departments and vendors, without the need for 2D drawings and have tools for rapid prototyping. |
| Igor G.Tebelev |
StlView is a Windows program for analyzing, fixing, embedding or linking 3D solid models to documents that support OLE. Imports STL format files and can peform numerous functions. Exports to several popular file formats.
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| Tesis Software (Belgium) |
3D/Vision provides automatic translation and repair of CAD Neutral files. Easily handles very large part files and assemblies ( > 100 MB). Interprets and operates on IGES models from CATIA, Pro/E, IDEAS, SolidWorks, Unigraphics, SolidEdge, etc. Stores results as IGES, VDA-FS and STL. |
| TransMagic, Inc. |
TransMagic BASIC offers a suite of translators that support CAD data exchange among industry standard file formats such as IGES, STEP, Parasolid, ACIS, HSF and STL. STL PRO enables viewing, repair and conversion of 3D CAD models into STL files for uses such as additive manufacturing, rapid prototyping, and FEA.
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| ViewTec AG (Switzerland) |
RapidView / MedView provide data conversion and preparation for rapid prototyping in addition to visualization and file compression. RapidView was developed for Silicon Graphics Workstations. |
| Visual Technology Services Ltd. (UK) |
PDF3D® allows three-dimensional files such as STL to be included in standard pdf documents. Views can be rotated and otherwise manipulated within a window in the document. |
| Ztech Solutions |
Provides Ztech-STL for viewing and repairing STL files. Multiple files can be handled simultaneously and the program is said to offer advanced tools to prepare data for rapid prototyping. |
| Other Viewer Applications |
| AutoDWG Software |
Browse, view, measure, print DWG, DXF, DWF files. Pro version supports DWG to Image (jpg, tiff, gif ), dwg to pdf conversion. |
| BlueCielo ECM Solutions (Netherlands) |
Produces InnoCielo View which provides capability to view, zoom, compare and print more than 200 file formats, without requiring the native application. Integrated viewing and redlining of AutoCAD 2008 family is supported. |
| CAD Systems Unlimited, Inc. |
Provides SlickPdfPlus to convert AutoCAD drawings, dxfs, and dwfs to PDF and to raster file formats such as tiffs, jpgs, bmps, etc. |
| CadSoftTools (Russia) |
Provides ABViewer CAD viewing program. It also acts as a converter and CAD editor and will save in DXF file format. DWG (all versions including 2008), DXF, HPGL, SVG, CGM, TIFF, GIF, JPEG and other raster and vector file formats are supported. |
| Trix Systems AB (Sweden) |
Drawing Center V6 opens DXF/DWG versions from AutoCAD R12 to 2008. It also opens DWF, HPGL plot files, DXF CAD files, Acrobat PDF and over 100 raster formats including TIF, BMP, GIF, JPEG, etc. Also permits scanning from TWAIN scanners; raster to raster conversion. |
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