CAD File Viewer API

CAD.ai’s CAD File Viewer is a powerful professional tool for the 3D and design industry.

DESCRIPTION

You need powerful tools to deal with CAD files and that means displaying 3D models internally, to clients, on websites, and in apps. These tools are important because they allow users to preview 3D models before they are sent out for 3D printing or manufacturing. In spite of being a critical step in the design & manufacturing process, most of today’s CAD software doesn’t take this step seriously…

Key Features

Here are the key features that make this API outstanding

Preview Models

View CAD designs in your browser. Most 3D formats are supported like stl, obj, 3d, 3ds, and more. You don’t need software, simply place the widget on your web site and any customer will be able to look at your 3D models in the browser.

Rotate Model

Control your models with your mobile device touch screen or mouse to rotate your 3D models 360 degrees.

Zoom

Zoom in & out of your 3D models to get a better look at details for designers to edit or fix.

Grid Helper

Create a grid platform under your 3D model to help visualize your CAD designs for your business.

Wireframes

The viewer will create a mesh wireframe of your CAD design out of polygons, another way to show off the design of your 3D models.

Bounding Box

This features lets you create a bounding box around objects in the viewer. The Bounding Box is the smallest box that encloses the maximum dimensions of your design.

Auto-Rotate

Auto-rotate the model around the Z axis when the model is loaded. Use the slider menu in the sidebar to customize the speed of rotation.

Create Snapshot

Share a snapshot of your CAD design using the create snapshot feature

Augmented Reality

The CAD file viewer on your mobile phone allows you to explore the world of Augmented Reality, and all the 3D enhancements it has to offer.

Virtual Reality

Bringing you right into the action, you get an immersive virtual reality experience with the CAD.ai viewer.

Navigation Box

A cube geometry which responds to changes in orientation. A five buttons navigation panel also helps control & identify the orientation of your 3D model.

Cross Section

A cross section view is generated by slicing the object along the length, width or height. The slicing can also be controlled with the slider control buttons.

Subdivide/Smooth Mesh

Give low poly meshes a smoother finish with this tool. By subdividing the mesh into smaller triangles, you can get a higher poly and more precise 3D model.

Sub Features

More features you need!

Scale

Uniform Scaling
Non-Uniform Scaling

Lightning

Natural Lighting
Directional Lighting

Material

Quick Material
Preset Materials Library
Custom Create New Materials

Background

Panoramic HDR Background
Static Image Background
Solid Color Background
Gradient Color Background
Ground/Land/Floor

Additional Viewer Features

The viewer provides additional important information about your 3D models and CAD designs:

Volume
Size
Vertices’s
Triangles

All these feature come in a single widget that makes its integration (hyper-link to redirect to the doc’s 3D viewer section) the easiest. See video bellow for a detailed list of API features.