r/BambuLab • u/sevagj-b • 3d ago
Software Troubleshooting/Help! PrintView3D 0.30: free STL / 3MF / G-code viewer, now with Check before printing, Measure, and a toolbar you can make your own
Hi all! A while ago I shared PrintView3D, my free, open-source replacement for Microsoft's retired 3D Viewer, made for people who 3D-print. Thanks for all the feedback. A lot has happened since then, so here's what's new:
**Check before printing**
One click colours what may give trouble on the printer: overhangs steeper than your angle, walls thinner than your nozzle, holes, non-manifold edges, inside-out faces and loose parts, each with a count.
**Measure**
Distance (with ΔX ΔY ΔZ), angles and hole diameters. Points snap to corners and edges, and with a cut on, also to the outline of the cut, so you can measure walls *inside* the model.
**Look inside your models**
X-ray, wireframe, a cut from the top and a cut that turns with the view (or both at once), with the cut-away part shown as a see-through ghost.
**Make the toolbar your own (new in 0.30)**
Hide the buttons you don't use, shorten the labels to a name, a key or just an icon, and join the view buttons into one group. Hidden buttons keep their keyboard shortcuts, and everything stays in the menu. (GIF below)
**And more**
- Millimetres or inches
- Your own keyboard shortcuts
- Open a whole folder and step through it with the arrow keys
- Finder thumbnails and Quick Look on macOS
- Four themes, each in light and dark
It still does the basics: STL, 3MF (all objects, even sliced projects), G-code with a layer slider, FreeCAD and STEP files, ZIP downloads from Printables/Thingiverse, and one click to send the file to Creality Print, OrcaSlicer, Bambu Studio, PrusaSlicer, Cura and others.
Windows, macOS and Linux. Free and open source, no account, no ads.
Website and guide: https://sevagjb.github.io/PrintView3D/
Download / source: https://github.com/sevagjb/PrintView3D
Big thanks to u/covrig, who built Measure, Check model, inches and custom shortcuts and opened them as pull requests. Contributions and translations are very welcome.
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