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.
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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
- You make one-time payment for the development toolkit: no subscriptions and prolongations are required
- 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
- JavaScript API layer offers a subset of functions for scene scripting
- Three.js renderer- display of custom actors
- 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.
