LDView is a free and open source real-time 3D viewer application for Linux, Windows and MacOS. Using LDView, you can view LDraw models. LDraw is an open standard for LEGO CAD programs. Currently it supports LDraw LDR/DAT files as well as MPD files and hardware-accellerated 3D graphics. You can rotate the model to any angle, download the LDraw Parts Library, get parts list HTML, fullscreen rendering, Cut-away, Transparent pieces, take snapshot in PNG, JPG, or BMP and more.
Download LDView [Linux, Windows, MacOS]
How to Install LDView on Ubuntu Linux
LDView is available as a flatpak and native .deb package files. If you don’t have then install flatpak and flathub on your system and restart it after the installation.
Install flatpak and flathub on Ubuntu
Open the terminal app using the ctrl+alt+t keys or via show applications menu and run below LDView flatpak install command. It will install the latest version of LDView on your Ubuntu Linux system.
flatpak install flathub io.github.tcobbs.LDView
After the installation you can open it using below command.
flatpak run io.github.tcobbs.LDView
And uninstall LDView using below command.
sudo flatpak uninstall io.github.tcobbs.LDView
That’s it.
