Release 2016.1 of 3DViewStation Desktop Version

July 12, 2016

KISTERS has announced the release 2016.1 of the 3DViewStation Desktop version. By adding 2D analysis and markup functionality 3DViewStation continues its expansion to 2D market. The KISTERS 3DViewStation Desktop is known for its modern user-interface, high-performance viewing, advanced analysis and integration capabilities into leading systems. 3DViewStation 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 Desktop 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
  • a template DLL is now provided to extend the UI & the functionality of 3DViewStation, i.e. to connect to any leading system or to add a customer specific special behavior.