This bugged me for ages!

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I have a small fleet of BL printers… X1C, H2D and 2x A1M.

I am using macOS using Bambu Studio and for ages put up with the fact I couldn’t quick look/preview a .3mf file, which when you download from Makerworld could come with really weird names so can get out of control.

So I built a 3mf Finder / Quick Look extension that allows you to visualise what a 3mf file is… super simple - hit space to view and you can pan / orbit / zoom a file.

It’s really cool so decided to try and distribute it.

I would love some feedback from the community… does it work, what else could it do, would you use it, would you pay for it, etc.?

It’s available for free on my website: 3MF Viewer - Makeshift Matt

And on the Mac App Store: ‎3MF Viewer App - App Store. This is a paid app, but if you want it, let me know and I can give out a promo code.

I also have an online / web viewer: STL, OBJ, PLY & 3MF Viewer Online - Free, No Upload

Would love any thoughts / feedback! Just trying to work out if this is useful and what else I can do to make it better. I have some other viewers too.

Thanks!

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Cool, although a solution has been available for some time.

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I have a version for the Mac that fills a similar, but not quite the same niche as what you are offering. I am assuming the two pieces of software will conflict with each other if I try yours. I do like some of what you are offering though.

I notice neither of you offer a viewer/thumbnail generator for .step files. I assume this is more complicated to do?

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Thanks both. Hadn’t seen the one linked but the. There are others on the Mac App Store. I generally made mine for the convenience of quick look but if there are other things it could do to make it more useful do let me know. I made others for viewing stl/obj etc but macOS already grabs that file identifier. Also DXF and GLB. These are also standalone and there’s also one app that bundles them altogether.

there shouldn’t be a conflict as such having multiple but only one can latch the file identifier so the existing one might win unless you specifically change it. I did have an issue where one of the CAD software interfered if you had it installed (shap3r3d) but managed to work around that.

As for .step I had considered it - quite a bit more complicated but happy to look at it if there’s a need for it!

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I’ve done a STEP viewer if you’re interested. I can’t put it on Mac App Store because I’ve used the OpenCascade library which is LGPL but you can download it from my website: STEP & IGES Viewer for macOS - Makeshift Matt

It’s only built for Apple Silicon right now, could do Intel if anyone wants it.

Let me know what you think.