3D browser suggestions

[zoranm]

Hi

We are in the process of evaluating Deep Exploration as a 3D browser to help us out in sorting and viewing all the models in our 3D library.

It works well but it's expensive and upgrades are almost the same price as the initial purchase.

Does anyone have any other suggestions for similar product?
What do you use?

What we need is something that can view max, 3ds, obj, c4d, lwo, ply and 3-5 most popular CAD formats and convert between them.
(And wouldn't charge $150 every time a new max version comes out)

Regards

Zoran

[DaForce]

Polytrans perhaps? seems to be about the same price tho. Dont know about upgrade costs...
http://www.okino.com/conv/conv.htm

[jacksc02]

there is an asset browser in max, im not sure if it can open c4d files though. Deep exploration is really good, really really good infact

[miraldo]

3D Photo Browser http://www.mootools.com/plugins/us/3...rpro/index.asp

[zoranm]

Thanks for your replies guys, but it looks like there is nothing what I need on the market

-Max's Asset browser is just pathetic. It just shows the catched preview images of max files and if someone doesn't have that feature turned on in preferences you can't see anything.

-3D Browser supports only max 3.x - 5.x !!!!

-Polytrans is a bit of an overkill because we just want to quickly browse through files.

I'll keep you posted if I found something usefull.

regards

Zoran

[rbaz]

Actually, we've been using the latest version of 3D Browser and it works with MAX 7 files and I believe MAX 8 files. They have also added a feature where you can swap out the MAX generated thumbnail with an image file such as a nicely V-Ray rendered image.

Thanks for your replies guys, but it looks like there is nothing what I need on the market

-Max's Asset browser is just pathetic. It just shows the catched preview images of max files and if someone doesn't have that feature turned on in preferences you can't see anything.

-3D Browser supports only max 3.x - 5.x !!!!

-Polytrans is a bit of an overkill because we just want to quickly browse through files.

I'll keep you posted if I found something usefull.

regards

Zoran