Add xeokit

[drashevski]

Hi there!

Would be great to see xeokit on the list as it's a hidden open-source champion for web 3D viewers in the AEC industry. It's webGL-based JavaScript framework and offers viewer capabilities for many different, large and complex 3D BIM/CAD file formats in the browser.

Thanks!

[An-anonymous-coder]

Thanks for the suggestion!

Are there any programs (both open source and proprietary) similar to it that I can compare it to?

[An-anonymous-coder]

There's some programs like FreeCAD or Sweet Home 3D that seem similar (and are already on the list), so you'll have to explain how xeokit differs from those.

[drashevski]

hi @An-anonymous-coder , thank you for your feedback and sorry for the late reply! FreeCAD is not really an alternative because it's an authoring desktop CAD software. Sweet Home 3D seems also to be an authoring design software. xeokit is a web viewer which can be integrated into web applications.

Best known alternative to xeokit is Autodesk Forge or now renamed to Autodesk Platform Services, but it's not open-source. Some companies develop their own web viewers from scratch because they don't know about xeokit.

Does this answer the question?

[An-anonymous-coder]

Does this answer the question?

Yes, thank you!

I'll work on adding this!

[An-anonymous-coder]

I've added it to the code, and it should be published with the next release. Please let me know if anything is incorrect (platforms, category, etc.)!

P.S. Many developers are beginning to create "branding" repositories that contain various images related to their projects to easily be used in other projects ;)