How to Share and Mark Up Models in 3DEXPERIENCE: A Step by Step Guide

You can send a 3D model out for review and get feedback back on the model itself, with the comments attached to the geometry instead of scattered through an email thread. This guide covers how that works in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, which tool does which job, and what to check before you set up reviews that include people outside your own team.

Here is an overview by FEA Training Inc:

What sharing and markup actually get you

Storing files safely is the easy part. The work happens when someone else has to look at a design and say something useful about it. That means:

• Getting a model in front of another department, a client or a supplier
• Letting them turn it, section it and measure it in a browser, without a CAD seat
• Capturing feedback as annotations on the geometry, not as prose describing it
• Keeping that feedback attached to the version it was made against

This is the difference between a design review that ends in a decision and one that ends in a thread nobody can reconstruct three weeks later.

How to share a file in 3DEXPERIENCE

1. Upload your CAD data to the 3DEXPERIENCE cloud.
2. Assign access to collaborators through roles and permissions.
3. Open the model in the 3DPlay viewer, which gives collaborators browser-based access to view and inspect it.

Access is governed by the roles you assign, so the setup step is deciding who needs which role before you invite anyone.

The viewing and markup tools

• 3DPlay. Interactive 3D viewing and navigation in the browser.
• 3D Markup. Annotations, callouts, highlights and comments placed directly on the model.

Both support asynchronous review, so a reviewer in another timezone can work through a model and leave their comments on the geometry rather than in a separate document.

Product behavior described above is based on Dassault Systemes' public 3DEXPERIENCE documentation and the linked FEA Training Inc video, checked 27 September 2026. Check the current documentation before you plan a rollout, because cloud products change.

What to check before you run reviews with people outside your team

Most of the friction in external design reviews comes down to the same handful of questions. Work through them before you commit a live project to any setup, whichever tools you are using.

• What a reviewer needs before they can open the model. A license, an account, a plugin, or nothing at all. This single answer decides how much chasing you do per review.
• Where the comment lives. On the geometry, or in a separate thread that has to be cross-referenced back to it.
• Which version the comment is attached to. If the model moves on, does the markup still point at what the reviewer actually saw?
• How access ends. When a project finishes, what does it take to stop a supplier seeing the files.
• What a non-CAD reviewer sees first. A production manager or a client should be able to turn the model without training.
• Whether the review leaves a record. Who approved what, and when, retrievable later without asking anyone.

Answer those six for your own situation and the tooling question mostly answers itself.

How browser reviews work in Sibe

Sibe is a collaboration-first CAD Document Management platform with a native SolidWorks add-in. Engineers check files in and out directly in SolidWorks and Sibe tracks every version.

For reviews, you generate a free Visitor Link and send it. The reviewer opens the model in any browser, with no account and nothing to install, and turns, sections and measures it. Their markups stay tied to the version they saw, so a comment still means something after the design moves on. Released files lock, and the approval sits in the audit trail.

Where to start

Take one assembly and one real reviewer, and run a single review end to end. You will learn more from that than from any feature list, and you will find out quickly which of the six questions above matters most to your team.

Book a free 20-minute demo and we will run a browser review on your own SolidWorks files with you.