March 2, 2015 – Kisters released version 2015.0 of the 3DViewStation. V2015.0 provides 3D-viewing and Digital MockUp (DMU) for Catia, NX, Creo, SolidWorks, JT, 3D-PDF and STEP, plus functional tools to view, analyze and communicate 3D-data as i.e.
STEP, JT or 3D-PDF.
3DViewStation V2015.0 ships with a fresh Office compliant user interface and provides functionality, which can be leveraged by the user quite intuitively. The focus of the latest developments has been set to significantly enrich the 2D file format support.
Several 2D file formats been added: besides 2D-PDF and CatDrawing KISTERS 3DViewStation now also supports DWF, HPGL, HPGL/2, Gerber, BMP, CALS, GIF, JPG, JPEG2000, PBM, PNG, PNM, PPM, TIFF. Regarding 3D file formats KISTERS 3DViewStation now offers support for latest NX 10, Solidworks 2015, JT 10 and Parasolid 27. Catia Piping objects are also supported and a STEP healing function has been added.
Other enhancements include explosion of solids into faces, a convex hull calculation, improved clash detection and transparency handling.