App Description

This is a great 3D solid model Blender ( .blend format) file viewer. Blender is the most popular free open source 3D content creation suite. It is widely used by 3D artist and modeler all over the world. With help of this app, you can view your 3D model anywhere you want, no matter you are at home or traveling abroad.

The app provides many 3D features including rotating model with finger movement, zooming in/out, changing rendering color, changing rendering light intensity, etc. You can choose to display 3D model in shading model, or wireframe mode. The app supports loading multiple models at the same time so that you can view them together. It is so easy to control it. You will love the way your model looks.

The app supports rendering 3D objects on top of different background, for instance, you can change background color, make it transparent or use an image. You can choose any image you want to be the background image. For instance, you can use environment image, or just simply your company's logo.

You can add files to the app's document folder through iTunes and use the file open button of the app to load them. You can also use the app to open 3D files you received as your email attachment. Just tap on the 3d data file attachment in you email app, the 3D viewer would be launched automatically. Or you can use it to open 3D files from third party file management app, like DropBox, etc.


The app is not just a 3D data file viewer. It is also a file organizer. The app provides you file sorting features so that you can find your model quickly. You can sort by file name or file creation time. If you have too many models in the app's folder, you can use delete button of the app to remove files you don't need any more. If you need share 3D model with your friend, coworker, client or partner, you can use in-app email feature to send your model out as email attachment. The app also provides unzip function. You can use it to unzip compressed files in .zip format. The app also tells you information about your files, for instance, the size and creation time of the files.


The app provides native support for you to view documents in many different formats, including Microsoft Words (.doc, .docx), Excel (.xls, .xlsx), PowerPoint(.ppt, .pptx), Apple Numbers (.numbers), Pages(.pages), Keynote(.key), Adobe PDF (.pdf) and multimedia files including image (.png, bmp and .jpg) and video (.mov,.mp4,.3gp). This way, you can manage and view not only 3D files, but also other files of your project.

The app provides unique in-app reviewing feature. You can easily take screen-shot of your file (3D or office document), draw your comment on the screen-shot and email it to your friends. When you use transparent background for 3D rendering, your snapshot would have transparent background and you can easily add your 3D model image to other 2D graphics design through photoshop or other picture editor apps.

If you need iPhone or iPad app for other 3D file formats, for instance, stl, 3ds, obj, vrml, ply, etc, please search Afanche to find more 3D oriented apps. Afanche is a company specialized in 3D technologies. Afanche provides customized 3D programming solutions for mobile, web and desktop. For more info, please contact us. Our email address is [email protected]

iPhone Screenshots

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App Changes

  • March 27, 2012 Initial release