CADShaper-CAD 3D Model Design 4.3.2

This review assesses Wuweido as a professional-grade 3D modeling CAD application designed specifically for mobile devices. The software enables users to perform complex CAD work in a portable environment, transcending its role as merely a 3D model viewer by offering numerous modeling tools for creating and editing detailed 3D models.

Designed with optimized touch interactions, Wuweido facilitates the construction of intricate geometries through intuitive finger gestures. The program supports offline operation by running directly on the local device, with all drawing models stored securely in local storage, ensuring data ownership and privacy. It also provides versatile data exchange capabilities with well-known CAD systems such as CATIA®, Autodesk® Inventor®, SolidWorks®, Creo™ Parametric, NX™, AutoCAD®, Solid Edge®, Rhino3D®, and OPEN CASCADE®, among others.

The application suits various professional fields including 3D printing, art and concept design, jewelry, architecture, mechanical engineering, manufacturing, and education. Notable features include comprehensive opening, saving, and closing of drawings; precise drawing and editing tools utilizing object snap and keypad input; support for absolute and relative coordinates in cartesian, cylindrical, or spherical systems; and an array of sketching tools like lines, arcs, circles, ellipses, rectangles, polygons, and more.

Wuweido offers basic solid modeling primitives such as boxes, spheres, cylinders, cones, tori, wedges, pyramids, along with surface modeling capabilities like forming faces from planar wires. Text modeling supports both 2D and 3D text creation. Advanced modeling functions include extrude, revolve, loft, pipe, shelling, offsetting, chamfering, and filleting. The suite also encompasses boolean operations such as intersection, subtraction, union, sectioning, and exclusive OR.

Transformative tools allow for moving, rotating, scaling, and mirroring geometries. Array features facilitate linear and polar arrangements. The program includes editing functions like selection, deletion, duplication, renaming, visibility toggling, undoing and redoing actions. Layer management groups shapes akin to traditional CAD workflows. Visualization properties enable control of color, material attributes, transparency levels, display modes, and line widths.

For modeling precision assembly and alignment tasks, grid visualization with adjustable densities is available alongside smart object snapping that detects vertices, edges (centered or quadranted), and face centers. Wuweido supports import/export of common formats like DWG, DXF, OBJ, VRML, STL—note that STL is a standard format in 3D printing—and also handles step-based formats such as STEP, IGES, and BREP.

Multitouch gestures facilitate natural view manipulation—panning, orbiting, zooming—while its user interface draws inspiration from Rhino3D™, combining ease of learning with robust functionality. Powered by OPEN CASCADE’s geometry kernel technology—details available at https://www.opencascade.com—the software benefits from a reliable computational core. Additionally, it was inspired by OPEN CASCADE’s CAD Assistant—a viewer and converter for 3D models—further emphasizing its integration within the CAD ecosystem.