  3D File Conversion Utilities
- 3DWin HomePage – Likely the most versitle shareware 3D conversion utility that you will find anywhere. It is actively maintained and developed and has support for most major 3D file formats. It also include direct support for POV-Ray and Moray plus the author has plug-ins available for Moray for direct import capabilitites.
- Cadlink – CADLINK provides CAD / CAM translator-converter and 3D CAD / CAM viewer for CATIA, CADDS, AUTOCAD, RHINO3D, PRO/E, SOLIDWORKS, SOLID EDGE, IDEAS, UNIGRAPHICS, IGES, DXF, STEP, VRML.
- AccuTrans 3D - Home – AccuTrans 3D provides accurate translation of 3D geometry between the file formats used by many popular modeling programs. Positional and rotational information for the 3D meshes is maintained. Also many material attributes, such as color, index of refraction, reflection, specularity and Phong shading, are transferred between the files. Textures are not currently supported.
- 3D Exploration - 3D viewer – 3D Exploration is a viewer for Windows 95, 98 and NT with Explorer-like interface and Open GL hardware accelerator support. It allows you to browse many popular 3D file formats - 3D Studio, LightWave, Caligari, Direct X, AutoCAD and many other, plus common 2D file types. Shareware
- PolyTrans from Okino Graphics – PolyTrans, an industry standard for accurate 3DModel/NURBS/CAD/Animation/Skinning translation, optimization and viewing.
- Inventor 2.0 / VRML 1.0 Converters – Hammer Visual Engineering Inventor 2.0 / VRML 1.0 Converters to Rayshade, POV, and Renderman / BMRT. Iv2POV estimates materials and textures an attempts to compensate for the differences in the way that Inventor and POV-Ray handle texture and colours etc.
3D Viewers / 3D CAD Viewers
- 3D Exploration - a 3D viewer and translator with a Windows Explorer-like interface, allows users to present a slide show of a folder's images or create renderings of 3D objects and scenes to use in other graphic applications, from Right Hemisphere.
- 3D Shop VieweR - Windows-compatible tool allows you to view, manipulate, combine, measure and control 3D models, from C4W.
- 3D-Tool - Viewer for multiple CAD file formats with facility to publish portable exe-files which run on any windows platform without installation and licensing
- 3DView - 3D CAD viewer for IGES, STL, VDA, VRML, G Code, DXF, DWG, CATIA, SolidWorks Parasolid & Mechanical Desktop files by Actify
- Able DXF Manager - view and print DXF files, can also convert to JPEG, TIFF, more, Rastervect Software
- AEC|VIZ - 3D viewer for the AEC market supports DXF/DWG files, fast cast shadows, large models and real-time manipulation, from TORNADO Technologies Inc.
- Amethyst CADwizz - view AutoCAD DWG and DXF files versions 2.5 to 2000, save files in any version of AutoCAD and convert DWG files to DXF, and DXF to DWG, from CA Design Associates.
- CADlook - view, inspect, measure and mark up CAD files as well as convert between different CAD formats
- CADview - AutoCAD drawing view and print program from Vdraft.
- CtrlView - viewer/converter for various 2D and 3D raster/vector file formats
- DesignGateway - interfaces directly to the 3D product model for viewing and exporting to 2D drafting softwa, from SofTech.
- DraftView - provides view, print and markup of Computervision CADDS 4X, CADDS 5 and Personal Designer. Also supports such formats as DWG, DXF, HPGL, CGM and TIFF.
- echive Viewer - view and markup, layer control, search words, XML support, by Open Archive Systems
- eReview - from Allegria, real-time online document review and conferencing with visual markups, textual chat, voice and video
- eZ - real-time Internet-based 2D/3D collaborative viewer
- FastLook - document viewing, markup, plotting with 150+ formats by Kamel Software, Inc.
- FME Suite - tools for data transformation, translation, and viewing of GIS, CAD, and database file formats, including AutoCAD DWG, DXF, DWF, by Safe Software
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