CAD Viewer Friendly
Inspect STEP, STP, and STL files on the go
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CAD Viewer Friendly is a mobile CAD viewer for opening STEP, STP, and STL files on iPhone and iPad. Rotate, zoom, pan, inspect three views, check key dimensions, and export useful views as PNG, DXF, or PDF. A practical tool for engineers, designers, makers, students, and anyone who needs to review a 3D model away from a desktop.
PH · launched Sep 29, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 3 views
Niche: computer-aided design software · 169 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▼ -57% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Manufacturing
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- 3D Printer
- Developer Tools
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Could you build this?
Partial Parsing and rendering complex 3D CAD formats like STEP/STP on mobile devices requires robust B-rep kernel parsing and meshing, which cannot be reliably vibe-coded from scratch.
What it would actually take: The mobile app requires compiling Open CASCADE Technology (OCCT) to WebAssembly or native C++/Swift via CMake to parse boundary representation (B-Rep) STEP files into renderable 3D meshes. Rendering is handled via Metal or SceneKit/Three.js, accompanied by custom dimensioning and projection shaders. Building this requires specialized computer graphics engineering and native C++ cross-compilation expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 124 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #106 of 125 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 285 days after the earliest competitor.
- CADProps · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- DWG OfficeZip · ph · 2026-10-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- MLightCAD · ph · 2026-10-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- AssetLook · ph · 2026-10-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- CADlingo · ph · 2026-10-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- 3dfileconverter.online · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- rcam · ph · 2026-09-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Meshwise · github · 2026-10-13 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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