Audience
Users looking for a solution to open and view STL files for free
About Materialise MiniMagics
If you’re working with a 3D printing service provider, you need a tool that allows you to view files compatible with 3D printing and communicate efficiently with your account manager. MiniMagics is our free STL and 3MF viewer that allows you to see the same file your account manager sees. With MiniMagics, you can view STL files, perform measurements, and communicate your remarks to others. Thanks to commenting features, communication between account managers and customers are smoother than ever. Sign off on printable parts with the viewer to reduce scrap, thus improving the use of materials and printing time and costs. Rotate, pan, and zoom parts; inspect the inside of parts with transparent and cross-section views; make the distance, circle, and angle measurements. View dimension, volume, surface, and mesh information, see diagnostics and add text annotations to be included in .magics files. Support .stl, .magics,. mgx, and .3mf files.
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Free Version available.
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Materialise
Founded: 1990
Belgium
www.materialise.com/en/industrial/software/minimagics
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