NX + JT viewer,
NX & JT Visualization
Modern, advanced, user-friendly
Complete tasks more efficiently
Are you looking for an NX Viewer or JT Viewer that is modern and easy to use? Then you have found your CAD viewer with Kisters 3DViewStation! Not only your experts will be pleased, but also your occasional users. But the 3DViewStation is much more than just a JT Viewer or NX Viewer:
A 3D viewer for 3D data with over 180 features & functions for more than just viewing 3D models. Because you can also measure, cut and compare. You can also calculate volumes and change colors and transparencies.
A viewer for importing NX and JT files that also includes advanced Digital Mockup (DMU) functions. Because you can also carry out clash, split, draft angle, undercut, wall thickness, curvature and distance band (clearance) analysis, for example.
More than just a viewer. This is because you will also use 3DViewStation as an authoring tool for creating Markups and annotations / notes, organization of your work in a series of views, e.g. to prepare review meetings or to create work instructions. But also exploded views including incl. ballooning for technical documentation, after sales or spare parts applications.
3DViewStation is a JT Viewer or NX Viewer that supports PMIs . Add your own markups and export them as PMIs to JT and STEP.
Create your own mockups (digital prototypes). To do this, first load a model and then import additional CAD data from different sources - not just NX and JT - into the same scene. Because only this is a real Multi-CAD viewer, true MultiCAD Visualization!
Navigate, select, show and hide, zoom and pan are important basic functions
Apply a change to a color or transparency is easy.
Filtering properties or attributes is a bit more special and great for more complex designs.
Do you also have 2D data? No problem, support for 2D drawings, PDF, Office and image formats is also provided
Our wide range of products is guaranteed to offer the perfect solution for your 3D visualization format - be it with our desktop or WebViewer. Thanks to VisShare, collaborating as part of a team is no longer a problem, as JT files can be managed and shared easily and securely. Usually just by providing a video stream. Only if your terms and conditions allow, then the user might be able to download a physical file.
We cannot give you a fixed price for the display of JT files, as this depends on your individual requirements. You can find a rough estimate here.
The 3DViewStation is a fast JT Viewer or NX Viewer:
Load a 20,000 part machine in a few seconds, as a native NX file. Because the 3DViewStation is an extremely fast NX and JT viewer!
Load a car body in 1 second, as JT. Load a complex aircraft turbine in a few seconds as a JT product or in 1 second as a 3DVS file. Because the 3DViewStation is a very fast JT viewer.
Load a dynamically configured truck designed in NX in just a few seconds. Or a complete system consisting of several million parts. Only this is 3D CAD Viewing world class! We are sure that you agree.
Use the 3DViewStation form anywhere, on any device - desktop and browser
The 3DViewStation can be used as NX and JT Viewer on a device such as desktop PCs, office notebooks, tablet PCs, SmartPhones and in VR environments, there is no app.
The 3DViewStation can not only be used as a stand-alone JT and NX Viewer. But also integrated in Siemens TeamCenter or ActiveWorkspace. or other leading systems, like service, spare part, product configurator applications and even on a machine controller as part of the HMI (human machine interface)
Load complex assemblies such as complete machines or systems in seconds. Determine the objects you are interested in and start your NX session directly from here ("visual load to CAD")
Share your CAD data for a review instead of sending / downloading sensitive or large files.
Background information on JT file format
The JT format was defined many years ago as "Jupiter Tessellation", with the aim of creating a format for 3D model data that could be visualized quickly. EAI (Engineering Animation Inc.) was one of the first companies to use this data format as a lightweight 3D format in its applications. EAI was taken over by UGS (Unigraphics), the manufacturer of the CAD system of the same name, and became very widespread as a result. UGS tried to establish and commercialize JT file format via the JTOpen Toolkit. The JT file extension since the very beginning is JT.
During this time, more and more companies, including Siemens, became interested in this data format and urged the management to disclose the JT data format. UGS was eventually taken over by Siemens PLM. JT was retained, the CAD system was renamed NX.
The JT format has been continuously expanded by Siemens Digital Industries. Originally it was all about tessellation, triangulation, i.e. triangles that generate a 3D impression and can be easily processed by a graphics card. Gradually, more and more content such as BREP, assembly structure, the exact CAD description, product structure information, views, manufacturing information (so-called PMIs: surface finishes, dimensions, 3D annotations, tolerances...) etc. added.
JT from Siemens can be a single file for an assembly (monolithic) or a set of files, typically an assembly file plus all individual parts as one referenced file each - just as the CAD systems often organize it (fully shattered). However, there are now not only pure JT files, but also PLMXLM assembly files, that might contain model views and might reference other JT files. Siemens has also tried to position the JT with BREP as a competitor to STEP for BREP data exchange and long-term archiving of 3D data. However, this failed.
Firstly, because the JT BREP is now Parasolid - a proprietary data format, which is a no-go for long-term archiving. They work exclusively with disclosed ISO formats. Secondly, because STEP BREP has been established for these purposes for a long time and with considerable effort.
Why not use JT2Go or JT open toolkit from Siemens to view JT data?
Siemens Digital has been offering its own viewers for JT Data for a long time. Although JT is now the ISO standard, Siemens still sells the commercial JT Open Toolkit. The pressure of many customers led to the agreement to finally provide the JT2Go free Viewer, a free software that can view not only a JT file but also other CAD files such as DXF and image formats.
Siemens JT2Go only runs under Windows and is not a web version. For some customers/users, JT2Go's range of functions is sufficient, but for many it shows too many limitations and restrictions. The ease of use and lack of intuitiveness of JT2Go and TeamCenter Visualization is also often criticized.
The 3DViewStation is a fully-fledged DMU tool at the same level as VisMockup
Customers and users repeatedly compare the functions and features and their implementation in 3DViewStation and other products. Many people have confirmed to us that the 3DViewStation can functionally keep up with significantly more expensive digital mockup applications such as VisView Professional or VisMockup.
Comparing functions and features on same sample models, you won't see late loading - as we always load everything at a time. Model views can be optimized to perfectly fiiting zoom level, assembly structure could be manipulated, node beeing moved or added / removed. But 3DViewStation also provide so called "3D advanced analysis" functions, which include wall thickness analysis, curvature analysis, draft angle and undercut analysis as well as clash and clearance checks.
3DViewStation is a not a CAD translation software, still it allows to export 3D to e.g. STEP, IGES, OBJ and JT files. And it exports Views or sections form a 3D model to a 2D PDF or can export a 2D drawing like DWG to PDF, JEPG and more.
Training costs are significantly lower with the 3DViewStation, as operation is much more intuitive and the help system rarely needs to be consulted. We rarely have to provide training to customers and there have been projects where key users were able to successfully do their job with our 3DViewStation and its data after just two hours of product demo. In addition, under the same agreement and the consistency from desktop to WebViewer and VR version, the customer has a choice of comparable products depending on the situation.
Download 3DViewStation now!
Don't waste any time! A single click on the button allows you to Download your 3DViewStation Desktop version or VR edition to your device now. Try you own JT files, experience how fast the will display. Or test our WebViewer online (not available as an app) and compare the application with JT2Go. Contact us and let us discuss your requirements. As the 3DViewStastion was developed from the outset on the basis of customer requirements, your feedback is important to us.
Over 25 years of experience in the Viewer market
We started many years ago as a reseller of technical 2D viewers for the manufacturing industry. At that time, the most important data formats were TIFF, CALS and JPEG. This was the time of the switch from paper drawings to electronic documents. With the Spicer Imagenation, Kisters has marketed the most successful and legendary commercial product under a reseller agreement. Where other systems still use hardware for decompression with TIFF-G4, the Imagenation was unrivaled as a pure software solution. The first 2D CAD formats were soon added, with DWG, DXF, DWF and PDF and the ability to save to PDF.
Then the era of 3D CAD systems began. Today, Catia, Siemens NX (formerly UG) and Creo (formerly Pro/Engineer) dominate the high-end sector, but SolidWorks, Solid Edge and Inventor are probably even more widespread. At that time, Kisters as a reseller sold specialized, pure 3D viewers, pretty good for Catia, NX and JT files, still quite limited in their 2D support.
After all the manufacturers were gradually bought up, the new owners's ability to meet market requirements deteriorated. That's why we, Kisters, started developing our own line of products over 10 years ago and have been developing very closely to your needs and customer requirements ever since.
Goal was to overcome existing restrictions and limitations, e.g. moving from 32bit to 64bit, ultra fast loading times, allow note, markup, properties access & manipulation and much more.
The decision to develop the graphics core ourselves also very quickly proved to be the right one. Otherwise we would never have become so flexible and fast. Since then, the 3DViewStation has conquered ever larger parts of the market and is not only regarded as the leader by many customers.
