3D Viewer

When you're working with 3D models, most of you believe that you need to install mammoth software suites to do the job, which is especially frustrating when you don't even plan on doing any editing, just viewing and inspecting. What few of you know is that the teleport of Windows has also developed their very own 3D viewing software, which is as efficient as any of its professional counterparts, while offering a surprising amount of features compared to how lightweight it feels. This program is none other than 3D Viewer, a 3D object viewer for the latest version of the Windows OS.

This store app uses the computer's GPU for the rendering of the 3D models, thus ensuring that the app offers the best experience in both animation quality, smoothness, and performance. You can use 3D Viewer to quickly view common 3D file types: FBX, STL, OBJ, GLB, GLTF, PLY, 3MF, with high-quality staging.  You can even go into detail with the simple pan, zoom, and orbiting controls which you can achieve with the mouse, touch, pen or keyboard and by doing so, you can inspect the 3D model’s mesh, texture, material, and animation data more thoroughly.

Since it offers such high compatibility with plenty of 3D object format, you'd think that you will never be lacking the source material to use this program on. However, if you do happen to be in need of some objects to view, you should know that the program has its extensive library of beautifully animated 3D objects, from animated characters to a ferocious T-Rex. You can view these 3D files in different shading modes such as smooth, wireframe on smooth, texture passes and more, all while controlling the position and color of the staging lights.

3D Viewer offers all the tools you may need if all you're interested in is viewing a 3D object and analyzing its properties, which is more than one could expect when downloading a  seemingly lightweight Store App.