GLview Express

GLview Express is a free 3D viewer for presentation and distribution of 3D models and results generated by GLview Inova, GLview Pro or the GLview Express Writer. The product enables full 3D interactivity and high performance graphics, and is the CAE world's equivalent to Adobe Acrobat® Reader.

GLview Express can only read encrypted VTF files, which contain the model geometry, scalar/vector results, display attributes and animation settings.
GLview Express is a great marketing and communication tool and is available on Windows, UNIX and Linux platforms.

User Benefits Excellent as a marketing tool for presentation, documentation, and distribution of results towards customers and clients. Use GLview Express as an interactive environment for easy browsing and presentation of results Include GLview Express for free in technical reports with full 3D interactive animation and information.

Target Group GLview Express is tailored towards science and engineering with a particular strength in visualizing and distributing results from finite element analysis. Engineers in need of sharing their results from finite element analysis to customers, clients, or colleagues. Managers in need of a marketing tool to visualize technical results and models with full 3D animation and graphics. Engineers writing reports and wanting the customer to fully experience 3D visualization and animation of technical reports.

Technical Data

Full 3D interactivity and high performance graphics utilizing OpenGL.


Start, stop, pause animation.


Rotation, translation, and zoom during animation by using the mouse.


Supports VTF (ViewTech File Format) files generated by GLview Pro.


Display and model parameters for the GLview model can not be changed.


Utilizes OpenGL hardware graphics.


Free distribution!

Operating system requirements

Windows NT4.0/95/98/2000/XP (Intel)


SGI IRIX 6.x


Compaq Tru64, Digital OSF/1 4.0. OpenGL operating system option is required.


Sun Solaris 2.7 with OpenGL option installed (OpenGL hardware is optional).


HP HP-UX 10.20. VISUALIZE FX2/4/6 card and an operating systems extension is required.


IBM RS/6000 AIX 4.3 with OpenGL option installed.


Linux kernel 2.4.18-3 or later, GNU GCC runtime environment version 2.96 or later, and XFree86 4.1.0 (for OpenGL).