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