CARIS Easy View for Windows XP and Vista: the free CARIS viewer for 2D and 3D data.

View your spatial data from a wide range of file types, connect to a WMS server, load ENCs and VPF libraries, visualize BASE, BAG or LOTS grids in interactive 3D, export 3D flightpaths to XML or to an AVI digital video file. Easy View lets you do it without 3rd Party software or libraries. For free.

Easy View delivers all the functionality of the popular CARIS EASY-ENC software with an updated interface, support for more data formats and 3D visualization.

View your data in 2D and 3D:

With Easy View, you have control over how you look at your data. You can load multiple 2D layers, change the order in which they're drawn, and adjust each layer's parameters. Easy View also allows you to make selections and query your 2D layers using CARIS's query tools. You can also use CARIS's new 3D visualization engine to see your data as you've never seen it before. Inspect a wide range of data types by loading your gridded data as a 3D surface and draping raster and vector data over it.

Load a wide range of formats:

Easy View offers support for a wide range of spatial data formats:

• AutoCAD files (DWG and DXF)
• BASE Surface files (CSAR, HNS, BMS, HCS, DEF, and BAG)
• Sounding Set files (CSAR, BPS)
• BSB images (KAP, CAP)
• CARIS files (DES)
• CARIS Spatial Agent File files (SAF)
• CRL images (CRL)
• DGN files (DGN)
• ECW images (ECW)
• GeoTIFF images (TIF)
• HCRF images (CHR)
• Hydrographic Object Binary files (HOB)
• IGA images (IGA)
• JPEG 2000 images (JP2)
• S-57 files (000)
• Shape files (SHP)
• TFW images(TFW)
• VPF library (LHT)

You can view BASE, BAG and LOTS IGA grids as 3D surfaces that you can easily fly around using CARIS's 3D visualization engine and simple 3D navigation controls. All supported 2D data can be draped over 3D surfaces, allowing you to visually inspect your georeferenced data from any angle. Easy View also lets you connect to WMS servers and load georeferenced images directly from the web.

View your LOTS data in 3D:

Easy View lets you load CARIS LOTS IGA grids and CARIS files. You can adjust vertical exaggeration, change colour maps and set up lighting the way you want it. Easy View's 3D visualization engine lets you fly around your data so that you can see it from any angle, making it simple to visualize your CARIS LOTS work in 3D. You can even create a digital AVI video.

Comments and Questions:

We welcome your feedback. Please direct all comments and questions to support@caris.com.