Papa’s Best STL Viewer by Krishty

Last crawled date: 3 years, 1 month ago

I’ve written a fast STL viewer for Windows. It comes without bloat and opens all STLs – no matter how big or how strange they are.
You can easily browse folders full of STLs using the left/right arrow keys, much like the Windows Photo Gallery.
I uploaded 32-bit and 64-bit versions, an installer and a portable version (if you want to copy the viewer to your USB drive or to your local network).
If you don’t know what to download, just choose the 32-bit setup.
Please contact me if you encounter any issues or if it raises any questions – I’m always improving it!
For more information, you can visit my website at https://papas-best.com/stlviewer_en !
(The preview image displays the Color MakerBot Gnome by silby101 from https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:141919)
Updated July 28th, 2019:
now supporting binary STLs exported from new Solid Edge versions
improved Windows 10 compatibility
added auto-rotation to View menu
added version information
fixed artifacts with multi-file view
fixed compatibility with Open with dialog
fixed background color of error screen
fixed possible allocation size overflow
reduced setup size
performance improvements
Updated March 9th, 2019:
now supporting drag & drop
added top/left/front views
added menu option to toggle between metric and US units
improved lighting
improved antialiasing quality
now falling back to software rendering (slow) if the GPU is too old
new setup with support for per-user installation, direct updating, and administrative installation
window now remembers whether it was maximized
performance improvements
fixed many STL file problems
Updated April 29th, 2018:
enabled backface rendering
fixed “Netfabb” STL detection
Updated February 23rd, 2018:
added dual-extruder support via File -> Add Part
background color can now be customized (and is remembered throughout sessions)