CAD Viewer vs Glovius
CAD Viewer
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| Figure | CAD Viewer | Glovius |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $24.92/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 10 |
| Spec score · CAD Viewer Software | 7.6 (#15) | 8.6 (#8) |
| Integrations | The maker describes embedding through iframe or npm and lists a Google Drive integration for opening drawings from Drive. | The store FAQ names Dropbox syncing as a cloud capability but says Glovius does not support PLM or ERP integrations. |
| Languages | The documentation lists English, Chinese, Arabic, Czech, Turkish, Japanese, and Korean interfaces. | The Windows product documentation lists English, German, French, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and Korean support. |
Plans
Glovius
- Glovius Daily Pack$15, paid once
- Glovius Weekly Pack$45, paid once
- Glovius Monthly Pack$91, paid once
- Glovius Lite$299 a year
- Glovius$399 a year
- Glovius Plus$549 a year
- Glovius$995, paid once
- Glovius perpetual$995, paid once
- Glovius Plus$1,095, paid once
- Glovius Plus perpetual$1,095, paid once
In their own words
CAD Viewer
CAD Viewer is a free, open-source browser WebGL runtime for viewing and editing DWG and DXF drawings. It displays model space, layouts, layers, blocks, and external references. Write mode supports creating, editing, and deleting drawing entities with AutoCAD-style commands. Review tools place arrows, text, clouds, rectangles, circles, and callouts over a read-only drawing background. Measurement tools cover distance, area, angle, and arc length, with results exportable as a JSON sidecar file. The product can export a self-contained HTML viewer for offline use with pan, zoom, layers, and distance measurement; exports can be password- and expiry-protected. Full-viewer examples include HTML and PDF export, while the simple viewer offers lazy-loaded HTML, PDF, and SVG plugins. Parsing and rendering occur on the client, and drawings are not uploaded, cached, or mirrored to a server. It can be embedded through iframe or npm, and a Google Drive integration opens drawings from Drive. The responsive interface supports phones, tablets, and desktops, with touch operations documented for mobile. Read-only mode disables markup, drawing, and modification commands.
Glovius
Glovius is a CAD viewer for opening, measuring, analyzing, comparing and exporting part, assembly and drawing files. It supports CATIA V5/V6, NX, Creo, SolidWorks, Inventor, Solid Edge, STEP, DWG, DXF, IGES and JT. Analysis tools include thickness, collision and draft analysis, plus projected-area and section-area tools. Glovius Cloud lets users view models in a browser without installation, share files by link and embed models in websites; it can also synchronize with Dropbox. Free mobile apps are available for iPhone, iPad and Android phones and tablets. Export options include STEP, IGES, Parasolid, 3MF, JT, PDF, HTML, STL, images and PowerPoint. The Windows viewer runs on Windows 10 or 11 and requires at least 4GB RAM. A free plan and 15-day trial are listed. Paid options include packs at $15, paid once, $45, paid once and $91, paid once, and annual plans at 299.00 USD, 399.00 USD and $549 a year.