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Light Web Viewer Component

Step-up solution for bringing your CAD products to a website

Keeping up with two modern trends such as immersive computing and migration from on-premise to web, Open Cascade offers a unique development package of software components for short-time creation of 3D-rich web applications — Light Web Viewer, which is a part of Open Cascade Platform. Try a Free Demo

Standard functionality* included into Light Web Viewer:

  • Navigation and rotation suited for both mouse and touchscreen
  • Orientation Cube for simple navigation
  • Standard views and various display modes including transparency
  • Measurements
  • Annotations
  • Clipping planes and capping
  • Exploded view and Assembly tree for detailed inspection
  • Moving & rotating selected elements using Manipulator
  • Snapshots
  • Fit all or fit selected
  • Show and hide parts of an object
  • Object browser, synchronization of the selection between browser and 3D view
  • Camera customization: perspective or orthopraphic
  • Object customization: various and shadow settings, MSAA and resolution scalings
  • Environment customization: edit background (including Skybox), adding Ground element, lightmaps
* Some additional functionality can be provided as a specific development based on other Open Cascade Platform components.

Start your web project with a solid basis or finish a puzzle with a missing piece:

  • Create a stand-alone solution to view, analyze and share CAD models online
  • Enrich your website with an interactive 3D viewing capacity
  • Build in a 3D viewing capability into existing web-based solution or application
  • Customize the 3D viewing parameters to precisely address your use case

What makes Light Web Viewer stand out:

  • Apart from a simple viewing capability you receive a set of specific engineering-oriented features needed for CAD models analysis
  • Time-proven expertise and ready-to-use development tools to customize your future web viewer solution
  • Unlimited number of models and storage – we offer you flexibility and scalability from the very beginning

Key advantages for developers:

  • Compatible with WebGL 2.0 and suitable for limited environments
  • No backend server required to run the Viewer
  • Typescript API layer offers a subset of functions for scene scripting
  • NPM package support for straightforward usage with modern Web development frameworks.
  • Draco compression support for drastically reducing file size of the models at cost of a little bit longer model decoding

Supported web browsers:

  • Mozilla Firefox version 54 or newer
  • Google Chrome version 59 or newer
  • Microsoft Edge version 79 or newer
  • Opera version 43 or newer
  • Apple Safari version 15.6 or newer
  • Safari iOS version 15.2 or newer
  • Android Browser version 97 or newer
  • Google Chrome for Android version 97 or newer
  • Firefox for Android version 95 or newer
  • Opera Mobile version 64 or newer
  • Samsung Internet 7.2 or newer

Supported file formats for reading:

  • Light Web Viewer supports universal file format glTF (Graphics Library Transmission Format or GL Transmission Format), a standardized file format used to share 3D data.
  • Additionally, Mesh file formats are supported: OBJ, STL, VRML
*The support of native formats is available as an extension to the standard functionality under additional license. Contact Open Cascade to get more information.
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