OverviewCADlook Viewer is a fast, lightweight, and highly accurate 3D CAD viewer designed for anyone who needs to access, inspect, or share CAD data without the overhead of a full CAD system. It supports major industry formats, opens large assemblies with ease, and provides crisp, reliable visualization—making it ideal for engineering teams, suppliers, and customers who simply need to review models quickly and clearly.
With intuitive tools for viewing, measuring, analyzing geometry, and inspecting product structure, CADlook Viewer streamlines collaboration and reduces dependency on engineering software. Whether you're checking part details, validating dimensions, or sharing design updates across your organization, CADlook Viewer delivers a fast, stable, and affordable way to work with 3D CAD data.
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CADlook is available in 4 types of licenses:
| You may import IGES, STEP (both AP203 and AP214), VDA, VRML, STL, NC G-code files and export to image files. | You may import IGES, STEP (both AP203 and AP214), VDA, VRML, STL, NC G-code files and export to IGES, STEP (both AP203 and AP214), VDA, VRML, STL, and image files. | You may import IGES, STEP (both AP203 and AP214), VDA, SAT(Acis), X_T (Parasolid), VRML, STL, NC G-code files and export to image files. | You may import IGES, STEP (both AP203 and AP214), VDA, SAT(Acis), X_T (Parasolid), VRML, STL, NC G-code files and export to IGES, STEP (both AP203 and AP214) , VDA, SAT (Acis), X_T (Parasolid), VRML, STL, and image files. |
All types allow you to access all the viewer's great functionalities in measurement, dimension, viewing, and etc. The differences between the different types of licenses are in the types of files that you can import and export and in certain advanced features.
Basic or Advanced Viewer/Translator licenses are required to write cross-sections to VRML or IGES files.
Advanced Viewer or Advanced Viewer/Translator licenses are required to create Local Coordinate Systems and to access "Hole and Fill" and "Fill/Remove General" functions.
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Read IGES |
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Read STEP AP203 & STEP AP 214 |
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Read VDA-FS |
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Read NC G-Code |
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Read ACIS text & binary |
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Read Parasolid |
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Translation capabilities |
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Write VRML |
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Write STL |
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Write IGES |
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Write STEP AP203 & STEP AP 214 |
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Write VDA-FS |
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Write ACIS text & binary |
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Write Parasolid |
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Inspection capabilities |
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Measure Coordinates |
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Measure Distances |
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Measure Closest-Points |
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Measure Angles |
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Measure Area |
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Measure Volume |
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Measure Centroid |
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Measure Moments-of-Inertia |
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Create 3D Cross Sections |
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Create BMP, JPG & EPS images |
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High quality printing |
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It is confusing that the test/demo version of CADlook Basic Viewer is the complete package of CADlook Advanced Viewer and Translator. (Novedge: the message Novedge send with the download link contains a warning making explicit that the trial version is the full featured version of the program).
It is confusing that the test/demo version of CADlook Basic Viewer is the complete package of CADlook Advanced Viewer and Translator. (Novedge: the message Novedge send with the download link contains a warning making explicit that the trial version is the full featured version of the program).
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