What You Get

Overview

realvirtual WEB is open source. The viewer and its simulation runtime are licensed under AGPL-3.0, and that core is a complete product on its own: you can open a delivered twin, operate it, connect it to live signals and plan a layout with it, without buying anything.

What is commercial are the authoring tools — the workspace where a machine is built from raw CAD in the first place — and a few specialised calculation kernels. Those are the parts that create a twin rather than use one.

You do not have to take that on trust or install anything to find out: the public demo runs the full commercial feature set in your browser, free of charge and without a licence.

Included in the open-source core

Every delivery of realvirtual WEB — free or licensed — contains these capabilities:

Capability	What it does
Drives	Linear and rotational motion of machine components.
Sensors	Detect parts passing or resting at a position.
Transport surfaces	Conveyors that carry material through the model.
Sources and sinks	Create and consume moving units, so material flow has a beginning and an end.
Grippers and pick-and-place	Pick a part up, carry it and set it down again.
Signals and PLC connectivity	Live values from a controller, exchanged over the rv WebSocket Realtime v2 protocol.
HMI panels and overlays	Operator panels, status displays and KPI overlays on top of the 3D scene.
Camera presets and views	Saved viewpoints so operators reach the relevant part of the machine in one click.
PDF document linking	Manuals, drawings and maintenance instructions attached to individual components.
Layout planner	Assemble and arrange a layout from reusable parts directly in the browser.

The Layout Planner is part of the open-source core, not a commercial extension. It ships with every delivery.

Commercial extensions

These features require a commercial licence in your own deployment:

Feature	What it adds
Asset & Kinematics Editor	The authoring workspace: rename and group parts, assign materials, create kinematic axes and drives, author mechanisms, and save the result back into the model file. Without it you can open and run such a machine, but not build one.
CAD Import	Bring in STEP, JT, USD, FBX and Onshape geometry and turn it into a usable model.
Robot IK Solver	Interactive inverse kinematics, so a robot follows a target position instead of being moved axis by axis.
Kinematic Mechanisms	Closed-loop mechanisms such as cranks, couplers and parallel kinematics.
Machining Simulation	Material removal — the workpiece changes shape as the tool cuts.
DES Simulation Kernel	The event-driven engine behind material-flow and throughput studies.
Physics & Smooth Motion	Physics-based behaviour and smoothed, interpolated movement.

Trying the commercial features

The public demo at web.realvirtual.io/demo runs the full commercial feature set — no licence, no account, no installation. Open the Asset & Kinematics Editor, import your own CAD files, run a DES material-flow study, and try the IK solver, machining and physics, all in the browser.

The STEP tab of the import dialog, stating in the interface itself that conversion runs in your browser and no CAD data leaves this machine

CAD import is worth calling out: the conversion runs locally in your browser. Your geometry is never uploaded, so you can evaluate the importer with real parts from a real project.

The demo is the honest way to decide whether a licence is worth it — you see the actual features on your own data before you talk to anybody.

Free-tier limits

Two limits apply while you work without a licence:

Limit	Free tier
CAD import file size	25 MB per STEP file, 12 MB per JT file (JT is licensed separately from STEP)
Live signals	20 signals through the free realvirtual CONNECT tier

The import limit applies to each file on its own, never to their total: three 10 MB parts imported together are all well within it. Only a single file larger than its limit is refused.

A commercial licence lifts both limits.