If dealing with 3D model is part of your business or hobby, you would love what you can do with this app. First of all, this app is a great 3D model viewer. You can use it to manage and view 3D models in many popular 3D data formats. Secondly, the app provides unique tools for you to leave comments or remarks to the models. This way, you can collaborate with your partners more effectively. It would significantly improve your productivity since you can review 3D model at anywhere you want, whenever you want, as long as you have your iPad with you. Most importantly, it is very easy and fun to use.
The App provides many 3D features including rotating model with finger movement, zooming in/out, changing color, switching from surface rendering mode to wireframe mode, etc. It also supports animation mode in which your model would automatically rotate. If your model contains multiple parts, you can select part individually and change its color or delete it. You can also put multiple 3D files into the same scene to view them altogether. and they dont have to be in the same format.
Just tap Comment it button, the app would switch to reviewing mode. The app supports many drawing tools for you to leave comments, including free form drawing, line, rectangle, ellipse, circle, etc. You can draw in different color, transparency, line width, solid or dash mode. What is unique is you can even add photos from your PhotoAlbum to your review to help you communicate better.
3D model files can be added to the apps document folder through iTunes, after that, just tap file open button of the app to load them. You can also use the app to open 3D files you received in your email attachment. Just double tap on the 3D attachment in you email or other file management apps, the 3D viewer would be launched automatically. If you dont need a model any more, you can easily use the delete feature of the app to remove it.
The app supports 3D data files in the following formats:
Stereo Lithography (*.stl)
3ds Max 3DS (*.3ds)
Wavefront Object (*.obj)
AutoCAD DXF (*.dxf)
Terragen Terrain (*.ter)
Valve Model (*.smd)
Quick3D (*.q3d)
Quick3D (*.q3s)
3D GameStudio (*.mdl)
Quake II Mesh (*.md2)
Quake III (*.md3)
Quake V (*.md5mesh)
CharacterStudio Motion (*.csm)
Collada (*.dae)
Biovision BVH (*.bvh)
3ds Max ASE (*.ase)
BlitzBasic 3D (*.b3d)
Object File Format (*.off)
AC3D (*.ac)
Milkshape 3D (*.ms3d)
Stanford Polygon Library (*.ply)
Neutral File Format (*.nff)
Sense8 WorldToolkit (*.nff)
Raw Triangles (*.raw)
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