Ab3d.PowerToys

The ultimate 3D graphics toolkit for WPF and WinForms

Ab3d.PowerToys is an ultimate WPF and WinForms 3D toolkit library that greatly simplifies developing desktop applications with scientific, technical, CAD or other 3D graphics.

The library has been proven in many professional applications. Based on great user feedback it evolved into the ultimate collection of helper classes and tools that are needed for a 3D application.

The samples that come with the library provide many building blocks that you can be simply copy and include into your application.

The Ab3d.PowerToys is using WPF 3D rendering engine that is based on DirectX 9. This provides decent hardware acceleration and can render many 3D scenes. But when the 3D scene is more complex, then it is possible to use a super fast DirectX 11 rendering engine - Ab3d.DXEngine. What is more, an existing application that is using Ab3d.PowerToys library can be upgraded to the Ab3d.DXEngine with DirectX 11 rendering engine in a few minutes.

Car engine model shown with DXEngine (DirectX 11 rendering engine for .Net and WPF)

The main features of the library are:

The easiest to use 3D API with many great code samples in C#
Cameras (TargetPositionCamera, FreeCamera, FirstPersonCamera, ThirdPersonCamera, etc.)
Camera Controllers (MouseCameraController, CameraControlPanel, CameraNavigationCircles)
3D Models and Visuals (Sphere, Box, Cylinder, etc.)
Generate extruded or lathe 3D objects
Use Boolean operations on 3D objects or slice them with a 3D plane
3D Lines (the fastest implementation for connected, disconnected and lines with arrows)
3D Text
Event Manager 3D (simplified event handling on 3D objects)
Many helper classes to ease work with WPF 3D
Support for touch and multi-touch to rotate, move and zoom the camera
Import 3D models from obj files (integrated in Ab3d.PowerToys) or almost all other 3D files with Assimp importer (see below)
Play keyframe and skeletal animations from many 3D files with Assimp importer
Export 3D models to many file types files (using Assimp exporter)
Fully optimized to achieve the best possible performance
When faster rendering is required, it is very easy to switch to DirectX 11 rendering with Ab3d.DXEngine
Premium support for all questions regarding WPF 3D and our libraries

3D objects can be imported with assimp importer from the following file formats:
.3d, .3ds, .3mf, .ac, .ac3d, .acc, .amf, .ase, .ask, .assbin, .b3d, .blend, .bvh, .cob, .csm, .dae, .dxf, .enff, .fbx, .glb, .gltf, .hmp, .ifc, .ifczip, .irr, .irrmesh, .lwo, .lws, .lxo, .md2, .md3, .md5anim, .md5camera, .md5mesh, .mdc, .mdl, .mesh, .mesh.xml, .mot, .ms3d, .ndo, .nff, .obj, .off, .ogex, .pk3, .ply, .pmx, .prj, .q3o, .q3s, .raw, .scn, .sib, .smd, .stl, .stp, .ter, .uc, .vta, .x, .x3d, .x3db, .xgl, .xml, .zgl

It is possible to export the 3D objects into the following file formats:
dae, x, stp, obj, obj, stl, stl, ply, ply, 3ds, gltf, glb, gltf, glb, assbin, assxml, x3d, fbx, fbx, 3mf. files

Importing 3D models from STEP and IGES files is possible by using Ab3d.DXEngine. See CadImporter.

To get some additional information about using Ab3d.PowerToys and see how easy is to create great business applications with 3D graphics see the following blog post.

Showing 3D content was never easier!