“With the current release, KISTERS 3DViewStation 2021 now supports textures in addition to a wide range of materials to make product visualization even more attractive,” said Jim Eardly, U.S. Sales Director for KISTERS. “With the newly integrated textures, CAD models appear more detailed and vivid.”

The photo-realistic surfaces enhance the aesthetic impression of 3D objects and add value to any design. This gives tomorrow’s customers a vivid idea of how products are built and will appear more realistically integrated in the real world. The entire product family supports reading of OBJ, FBX, GLB/GLTF, DAE, U3D, 3DVS and 3MF file formats. Saving in 3DVS file format is also possible.

KISTERS 3DViewStation raises product visualizations to a whole new level. Marketing and sales departments will benefit in the future from 3D configurators whose textures will greatly enhance the design of their products, both in terms of aesthetics and functionality. Catalogs and product configurators in particular, benefit from the realistic representation. This gives customers a realistic impression of their final product as early as the design phase and leads to increased customer acceptance and sales growth.

With the KISTERS 3DViewStation, it is possible to reduce the number of expensive CAD licenses to a minimum. Featuring a lower training threshold and a much lower cost, KISTERS 3DViewStation allows more employees to be easily integrated into the product workflow. This leads to more efficiency, time savings and error prevention.

Known for its modern user-interface, high performance viewing, advanced analysis and integration capabilities into leading systems, 3DViewStation ships with current and mature importers for a broad range of 3D and 2D formats including i.e. Catia, NX, Creo, SolidWorks, SolidEdge, Inventor, Revit, JT, 3D-PDF, STEP, DWG, DXF, DWF, MS Office and many more.

The latest developments of 3DViewStation can be reviewed in more detail at: https://www.3dviewstation.com/blog.html.

According to Eardly, KISTERS 3DViewStation is continuously enhanced in response to customer needs and requirements. It is available as Desktop, VR-Edition and HTML5 WebViewer product-versions plus the online collaboration tool VisShare. All product flavors are intended to be used together with a PLM, ERP or other management system product configuration or service and spare part applications, providing all necessary APIs. For cloud, portal and web-solutions, there is an HTML5-based WebViewer solution available, which does not require client installation. All file formats can be used in combination with the intelligent navigation and hyperlinking features to address the needs of complex integration scenarios.