As the name suggests, Open 3D Model Viewer is a dedicated free and open-source 3D file viewer for Windows 11/10. In it, you can visualize 3D models of formats including 3DS, OBJ, PLY, DAE, STL, etc.

Getting BIM models to the field has had mixed success on mobile platforms, but a new BIM viewer from Procore is the latest attempt to put full 3D models in the hands of site workers.

Shwetha Nagaraja & Federico Rocha explore in detail techniques and strategies that Autodesk Forge Viewer introduces for viewing extremely large 2D and 3D models in the browser in real-time.