Designer- lightweight 3D modeler and DXF file viewer

ThreeDify Designer (Designer, previously ActiveSolid) is a fast, intuitive and lightweight 3D modeler and DXF file viewer, as well as a simple assembly design tool. Designer allows the user to open and view over forty 3D file formats (including DXF, Wavefront, Lightwave, 3DS max, STEP and IGES), and over thirty 2D image formats. Imported 3D models can be regrouped into different groups and/or folders using Designer’s drag and drop grouping interface. Designer includes some of high-end tools such as robust mesh cutting and boolean operations that could only be found in expensive CAD programs that easily cost over 20 times as Designer. To learn more about ThreeDify Designer, please view our video demo.

Extendable as an ActiveX Control or a Plug-in

ThreeDify Designer is a lightweight 3D and dual mode application. It can run as a standalone application or as an ActiveX control. The entire application including its user interface can be embedded inside any ActiveX host, including Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office applications. Power users can script both the control and the standalone versions of Designer using its built-in automation interfaces for Visual Basic. Another unique feature of ThreeDify Designer is its import/export plug-in architecture using COM’s Component Category technology that enables third party developers to independently develop their own Designer importer and exporter.

Key Features

  • Drag and drop grouping interface for easy scene composition and assembly grouping.
  • true 3D perspective zooming and view cutting planes.
  • hardware accelerated rendering mode for large meshes.
  • support for materials, multi-textures and shaders.
  • advanced 3D object construction and editing, including robust Boolean operations on 3D meshes and 2D polygons, and a robust mesh cutting (trimming) tool.
  • editing, mark-up, and associative dimensioning tools.
  • advanced view manipulation, lighting controls and multi-camera modes.
  • unlimited undo and redo.
  • export to DXF, STL(binary), XGL, and ASD(native) 3D formats and import from over forty 3D formats, including DXF, 3DS, LWO, DXF,OBJ, STEP and IGES.

Designer Feature List

Screenshots

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System Requirements:

OS: Windows 7, 8.1 or 10
Space: 8.3 MB
Additional Requirements: Microsoft Excel 2000 or better installed

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2D object construction: Freehand, Circle, Ellipse, Rectangle, Bitmap Text, Polygon

Mark-up tools: Label, Axis Aligned Dimensions, Distance Dimension, Radial Dimension, Static and Associative Dimensions

Advanced Mark-up tools: Associative Angular and Point-to-Plane Dimension

3D object construction: Cube, Box, Sphere, Ellipsoid, 3D Text, Text Mesh, Text Polygon, Polyline, Spiral, Lathe, Extrude Vector, Extrude Path, Copy Object

Advanced 3D object construction: Loft, 3D Profile Generation, Polygon Offset, Roof/Wall Creation, Voxel Model from 3D mesh, Trim

Object editing: Delete, Move, Rotate, Scale, Move Vertex, Extend/Shorten, Flip Face Normal, Insert Poly Vertex, Delete Poly Vertex

Advanced object editing: Boolean Operations on Polygons, 3D solids and Voxel Models (Intersect, Union, Subtract, Symmetric Differences), Component Labeling, Solidify Envelope, Fillet/Chamfer, Separate Components, Trim

Undo/Redo: Unlimited Undo/Redo, Undo/Redo History, Inner Command Undo

View manipulation: True 3D Perspective-correct Zooming (in/out/window), Pan Left/Right, Dynamic Pan, Dynamic Zoom, Spin, 10 Preset (including 4 isometric) Views, Change View Target, CAD View Mode, Indoor View Mode

Advanced view manipulation: Add, Move, Rotate, Delete View Clipping Planes

Camera modes: Orthographic, Perspective

Support for materials: diffuse, specular, ambient, emissive, height, normals, shininess, opacity, vertex displacement, and ambient occlusion.

Multi-texturing and shaders with per pixel lighting effects, bump mapping, parallax mapping, gloss mapping, and vertex displacement mapping.

Rendering Modes: Switch between Software mode and hardware mode (using OpenGL VBOs). Wireframe, Flat Shading, Flat Shading + Wireframe, Gouaraud Shading, Fast Hidden Line Removal.

Rendering Options: Backface Cull, Background Color/Image/Texture, Grid On/Off, Snap Cursor to Grid or Vertex, Material Colors, Transparency. Lights (Up to 8 and ability to change light properties), Show Face Normal on Pick, Show Polyline Vertex Number

Grouping feature with drag & drop interface for assembly design

Command Stack: Support for meta commands

3D File Import: DXF, STL, Q3BSP, MDL, HMP, 3D, 3DS, ASE, AC, CSM, B3D, BVH, DAE, XML, X, Q3O, Q3S, MD5MESH, MD5ANIM, MD5CAMERA, IRRMESH, IRR, LWO, LXO,NFF, OFF, MD1, MD2, MD3, MDC, RAW, NFF, PLY, TER, SMD, VTA, OBJ, UC, IGES, STEP, BREP, DDH(Diamond Drill Holes)

3D File Export: DXF, STL(binary), XGL

Image File Import: BMP, CUT, DDS, EXR, G3, GIF, HDR,ICO, JP2, JPG, JNG, KLA, LBM, MNG, PBM, PCD, PCX, PFM, PGM, PIC, PNG, PPM, PSD, RAS, SGI, TGA, TIF, TIFF, WBMP, XBM, XPM

Image File Export: BMP,EXR, HDR, ICO, JP2, JPC, JPG, PBM, PFM, PNG, PPM, TGA

Developer’s SDK: Dual Interfaces (automation interfaces for VB and VBA, and vtbl interfaces for C++)