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This is really cool - you'd think by now this is something that should come with your OS, just like music and video players do :)
by an_aparallel 3y ago
This is really cool - you'd think by now this is something that should come with your OS, just like music and video players do :)
- nraynaud 3y agoMacs mostly do it, unless it's STEP, nobody can reasonably open a STEP file, even scihub doesn't have the specification.
- phkahler 3y agoThe OCCT library can read STEP pretty well, but there's nothing small or light about leveraging that ;-)
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- GlowOnDub 3y agoF3D rely on OCCT to open STEP and IGES file, just try it :)
- phkahler 3y agoThe only other Free Software STEP reader of any competence might be the one in gCAD3d. It's written in C. But even if you can read STEP there is the problem of triangulating trimmed NURBS surfaces. I've been wanting to lift that reader and put it in Solvespace for linking parts in assembly but it's a big job and we still can't support all the types of geometry you might find in STEP.
- DeadMouseFive 3y agoWindows 11 shows STEP thumbnails now.
- GlowOnDub 3y agoBy default ?
- jtvjan 3y agoWindows 10 came with an application to view 3D models in obj and other formats, but it's no longer included in Windows 11. You have to download it separately now (it's still free).
- GlowOnDub 3y agoThen download and install F3D instead :)
- GlowOnDub 3y agoYes!
- smcleod 3y agoYeah it’s been built into macOS natively for quite some time.
- RobotToaster 3y agoWindows powertoys can preview and thumbnail STL files.
- ant6n 3y agoOperating systems don’t even have software (anymore) that allows looking through multiple images in a directory.
- dagmx 3y agoWhich operating systems are you talking about? I can do that just fine in both windows and macOS without installing anything
- dagmx 3y agomacOS supports viewing USD, STL, Alembic, PLY, OBJ for almost a decade now (some formats being newer). Windows as well supports gltf in many areas. iOS natively supports USDZ for the last 5-ish years.