LDView
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A real-time 3D viewer for displaying LDraw models with hardware-accelerated graphics.
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- pricing
- Free
- platforms
- Windows, Mac, Linux
- status
- Active
- public api
- no
- content format
- Interactive 3D models, HTML parts lists, Image snapshots
Overview
LDView opens LDraw LDR, DAT, and MPD files in an interactive 3D viewer. Its documented features include cut-away and transparency views, automatic LDraw Parts Library downloads and updates, retrieval of missing unofficial parts, HTML parts lists, high-resolution image snapshots, and export to POV-Ray, 3DS, and STL.
Goals
- View LDraw models
Characteristics
real-time-rendering
Displays LDraw models in real time using hardware-accelerated 3D graphics.
cut-away-view
Includes a cut-away feature for looking inside models.
command-line-mode
Official Linux downloads include an OSMesa-based command-line snapshot generator.
povray-export
Exports LDraw models to POV-Ray format.
Pros
- Current, actively maintained release
- Hardware-accelerated OpenGL viewing
- High-resolution and multi-format export (POV-Ray, 3DS, STL)
- Integrated as a renderer by LPub3D
- Cross-platform
Cons
- Not presented as a model-design application
- Not an instruction-layout tool
- Very large models can consume substantial memory
