{"id":1516,"date":"2011-08-12T00:20:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T00:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2011-08-12T00:20:26","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T00:20:26","slug":"viewing-cad-files-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/12\/viewing-cad-files-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Viewing CAD files online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/sharecad1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"ShareCAD\" width=\"374\" height=\"72\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1517\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/sharecad1.png 374w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/sharecad1-300x57.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I&#8217;m in a tight spot and don&#8217;t have CAD software handy, there are a couple of sites I use to view CAD files online.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/sharecad2.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"ShareCAD output: not perfect, but useful (Siskiyou part)\" width=\"662\" height=\"461\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1518\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/sharecad2.png 662w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/sharecad2-300x208.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharecad.org\/\">ShareCAD<\/a> lets you upload CAD files in a lot of different formats and displays the 3D model. It offers very minimal interaction, but you can pan and zoom. You also get a link that you can share via email with collaborators so that they can view and download the file. Handy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.proficad.eu\/tools\/AutoCAD-Viewer.aspx\">ProfiCAD&#8217;s AutoCAD Viewer<\/a> is more limited, but sometimes works where ShareCAD doesn&#8217;t. For example, here is an AutoCAD drawing that ShareCAD couldn&#8217;t handle. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/proficadOut1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"ProfiCAD AutoCAD Viewer output (ThorLabs part)\" width=\"630\" height=\"526\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1519\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/proficadOut1.png 630w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/proficadOut1-300x250.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n<p>When I&#8217;m in a tight spot and don&#8217;t have CAD software handy, there are a couple of sites I use to view CAD files online.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/12\/viewing-cad-files-online\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[29,14,16],"class_list":["post-1516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-tips","tag-collaboration","tag-construction","tag-machining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1522,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions\/1522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}