CADSoftTools has released ABViewer 7.3! A lot of work was done to speed up ABViewer and add new 3D file formats to view¹. From this moment ABViewer is 10 times faster! You can download the beta version right now:

http://www.cadsofttools.com/download/abviewer.zip

For more information about ABViewer 7.3 please visit ABViewer Homepage:

http://www.cadsofttools.com/en/products/abviewer.html

This version will be the free upgrade for ABViewer 7 owners.

We plan to increase the number of supported 3D formats. Please let us know which would you like us to add!

We will be glad to answer all your questions concerning technical capabilities, improvements and license options. We will truly appreciate any feedback on this question.

Thank you very much for dealing with our company and for your time!

With best wishes,

CADSoftTools Team

Soft Gold Ltd.

www.cadsofttools.com

Supported 3D formats¹:

DWG - AutoCAD drawing file format

DXF - Drawing Exchange Format

3DS - 3DStudio, and many others

STL - Stereolithography file format (ANSI and binary)

IGES - Initial Graphics Exchange Specification²

STEP - Standard for the Exchange of Product model data²

OBJ - WaveFront and many others

GTS - GNU Triangulated Surface

TIN - Triangular Irregular Network vector file format

ASE - ASCI Scene Export

B3D - Blitz 3D model files

GLM, GLX, GLA - Ghoul2 (GLM) model files

LMTS - Pulsar Studio LMTS File Format

LWO - Lightwave3D object file (6.0 or above)

NURBS - Nurbs surfaces vector file

NMF - NormalMapper files

OCT - FSRad OCT files

PLY  - Stanford Triangle Format vector file

VRML - Virtual Reality Modeling Language vector file

MCD - MDC files

MD2 - Quake2

MD3 - Quake3

MD5 - Doom3 mesh  vector file format

SMD - Half-Life

BSP - Quake3

¹ 3D View tab is placed nearby Model and Layout tabs (bottom left corner).

² Free to use additional library is required for IGES and STEP formats (7.5 MB): http://www.cadsofttools.com/download/converter3df.zip

CADSoftTools has released the new version of its CAD plugin for Total Commander - CAD View Plugin for Total Commander v.7.3. The main improvement of this version is AutoCAD 2011 file formats support.

As usual this upgrade is the free of charge for CAD View Plugin for TC v.7.xx owners:

http://www.cadsofttools.com/download/cadview.zip

We will be glad to answer all of your questions concerning technical capabilities, improvements and license options. We will truly appreciate any feedback on this question.

Thank you very much for dealing with our company and for your time!

With best wishes,

CADSoftTools Team

Soft Gold Ltd.

www.cadsofttools.com

CAD Drawings: View in Browser, Share over the Web

ShareCAD.org enables viewing and sharing vector-quality CAD drawings online, without installing additional software, for free.

TULA, Russia – Dec. 3, 2009

CadSoftTools has announced the availability of a free online service for sharing vector-quality CAD drawings over the Web. No fee, software or registration is required to take advantage of the new service. The new service gives quick access to CAD drawings from any PC or Web-enabled device connected to the Internet.

CAD files have a specific format, and opening them on a computer takes special viewer software. Before sending a CAD file to someone else, it is wise to make sure that the recipient too has the software for opening that file. ShareCAD eliminates these inconveniences and allows opening CAD drawings directly in the web browser.

With ShareCAD.org, sharing CAD drawings over the Internet comes down to uploading the file to ShareCAD.org and sharing the link to that file, which the website returns, to the recipient. The recipient, in his turn, can simply copy the link to his browser and wait a moment until the drawing opens up, right in the browser window.

ShareCAD supports the keyboard and mouse operations, typical for the stand-alone CAD applications: rolling the mouse wheel for zooming in and out on the image, pressing the right mouse button or wheel to drag the object and other commands. Frequent operations are available through the context menu, toolbar and common keyboard shortcuts.

• Supported formats: AutoCAD DWG / DXF, HPGL PLT, SVG and CGM.
• Supported browsers: MS IE, FireFox, Opera, Chrome
• Required software: Adobe Flash Player

Availability and Pricing

Available online to anyone, free of charge at www.sharecad.org. Registration is not required.