How to use the 3D viewer
- Rotate, zoom, move. Mouse: left button rotates, wheel zooms towards the cursor, right button moves. Touch: one finger rotates, two fingers zoom and move. Double click (double tap) flies to a part.
- Click a part. Selecting a part shows its mark, profile, steel grade, length, dimensions, mass and its NC1 file. The parts list on the left lets you search a part in an assembly.
- Section. Cut the model with a plane along X, Y or Z and slide it through the part to look inside tubes and profiles.
- Measure. Switch on Measure and tap two points – the viewer snaps to vertices and shows the distance and ΔX, ΔY, ΔZ in millimetres.
- Photo. The Photo button renders the current view with a path tracer into a photo-like image that you can save as PNG (needs a graphics card with WebGL 2).
What you see in this 3D DSTV viewer
The models are built the same way CutForge builds them for your machine: from the NC1 (DSTV) file – profile, contour, holes, cut-outs, mitres and bends – into a solid with the real wall thickness and corner radii. Raw steel with mill scale is the default; the handrail is shown hot-dip galvanised. In the appearance panel you can switch to galvanised, painted RAL colours or stainless steel.
Only have DXF drawings?
CutForge Converter turns 2D DXF drawings of steel parts into NC1 (DSTV) files for CNC beam, drill and saw lines – automatically for most single-part drawings. Free trial with 30 DXF files.
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