Release 2016.1 of 3DViewStation WebViewer

KISTERS has announced the release 2016.1 of 3DViewStation WebViewer. By adding 2D analysis and markup functionality 3DViewStation continues its expansion to 2D market. The WebViewer version of 3DViewStation provides extremely fast viewing, advanced analysis and integration capabilities for browser based and mobile users of tablet-PCs, smartphones and notebooks. No client installation is required. 3DViewStation WebViewer ships with current and mature importers for a broad range of 3D and 2D formats including i.e. Catia, NX, Creo, SolidWorks, SolidEdge, Inventor, JT, 3D-PDF, STEP, DWG, DXF, DWF, MS Office and many more.

Since a while already KISTERS 3DViewStation WebViewer supports reading of various 2D file formats from different sources, like Autodesk DWG, DXF, DWF, MS Office formats like DOCX, XLSX, PPTX but also Gerber, HPGL and many Bitmap file formats like PNG, JEPG, TIFF and more. With the 3DViewStation V2016.1 release now important functionality related to 2D file formats has been added. Similar to the existing 3D counterparts now 2D compare is possible, 2D measurements, 2D dimensions and 2D markups. The background of 2D drawings and also the color of all 2D objects can be changed now to black or white.

There have also been other enhancements:

• new 3D transform operations have been added:
  • circle axis - circle axis
  • rotate around axis incl. snap to circle center
  • set and lock movement direction
  • set and lock rotation axis
• Section planes can be defined by 3 points

The KISTERS 3DViewStation is developed by very closely following customer requirements; it is available as Desktop, ActiveX and HTML5 WebViewer product-versions. All product flavors are intended to be used together with a PLM-, ERP- or other management system like product configuration or service & spare part applications, providing all necessary APIs. For cloud, portal and web-solutions there is a HTML5-based WebViewer solution available, which does not require any client installation at all. All file formats can be used in combination with the intelligent navigation- and hyperlinking features to address needs of complex integration scenarios.