File converters

The product structure of a 3D XML package: assemblies, sub-assemblies and every placed part, drawn from the tessellated faces and edges of its XML shape files, in each face’s colour or the colour of the material applied to the part, at the positions the author saved, in millimetres, including the binary CGR tessellation of 2005-2006 CATIA V5 packages. Shapes stored in Dassault’s newer binary representation are counted and left out.

Rhino meshes, NURBS surfaces and polysurfaces, SubD, curves, point clouds, layers with their colors, and the file unit system.

Meshes, the object hierarchy and material colors from the legacy 3D Studio container.

Named manifold objects with their per-object colors and explicit millimeter units.

Furniture from Bazis-Mebelshchik: every sheet panel of the cabinet extruded from its outline to its board thickness, placed and rotated where the designer put it and coloured by its board, in millimetres.

The mesh geometry the file stores, placed by each object transform, with Principled BSDF materials and packed textures. Collections become layers.

A Blitz3D model as games such as SCP - Containment Breach ship it: every mesh placed through its node tree, with its normals, UVs and brush colours, textured from the images uploaded with it, in the rest pose its bones store, with its animation sequences to play.

Polygon objects with their UVs and materials, splines as lines, primitives rebuilt from their settings, and Extrude, Lathe, Sweep, Loft, Boolean, Symmetry, Array, Cloner and Subdivision Surface rebuilt, placed through the object hierarchy, in centimetres. Deformers, proxies and other generators are counted and left out.

A CityGML 1.0, 2.0 or 3.0 city model: buildings and their parts, terrain, roads, bridges, tunnels, water, vegetation and city furniture, each object at its highest level of detail, with roofs, walls, ground, windows and doors in their own colours, X3D materials and textures, grouped by object type and recentred from its georeferenced coordinates, in metres.

A CityJSON 1.0, 1.1 or 2.0 city model, or a CityJSONSeq stream: every object at its highest level of detail, with its semantic surfaces in colour, materials, textures and geometry templates, grouped by object type and recentred from its coordinates, in metres.

The product structure of a Creo View package: assemblies, sub-assemblies and every placed part, drawn from the tessellated faces and edges of its .ol shape files, in each face’s saved colour, the colour the structure gives a part, and the transparency set on an occurrence, with pictures mapped where the package holds them, in metres. A lone .ol part opens too, and a .pvs structure file asks for its .ol files. Datum planes are left out.

The COLLADA scene graph: geometry, instanced nodes, material colors and the unit scale declared in the asset block.

A DIALux evo or DIALux 4 project, or an STF file, in metres: rooms with their floors and ceilings, walls with the doors and windows cut out, slabs, roofs, columns, beams, furniture and every luminaire as placed, grouped by storey and room, with each evo luminaire type’s photometric web on a layer of its own.

The display mesh SolidWorks publishes into eDrawings parts and assemblies, with every body placed and colored as saved, in meters, stood upright from the author’s saved view. Textured appearances such as wood carry their picture where the faces have texture coordinates. A bare HOOPS stream (.hsf) opens the same way.

Meshes, the node hierarchy and material colors from binary and text FBX.

The object tree of a FreeCAD document and the shape FreeCAD stores for every visible object: the OpenCASCADE B-rep, tessellated here, in the object’s saved colour or the colour of each face, at its placement inside its parts and groups, in millimetres. A PartDesign body is drawn once from its finished shape, links are placed where they point, and part files linked from another document are asked for by name. Mesh workbench meshes are drawn too, and shapes without faces (visible sketches, Draft wires and curves) as lines; datums and drawing pages are left out.

The display mesh Fusion saves inside a design: every body as Fusion tessellated it, each component occurrence placed where the assembly has it, hidden occurrences kept on a layer that starts switched off, in centimetres. Designs saved without that mesh, which includes older Fusion releases, open to a notice with the design’s own thumbnail.

Every move of a 3D printer, CNC or laser program as a line in millimetres, arcs and drilling cycles included: extrusion or cutting moves grouped by the slicer’s feature types or by tool, travel and rapid moves on their own layer, coloured by height layer by layer.

The building of a gbXML energy model as the surfaces that bound its spaces: every wall, roof, floor, ceiling and shade drawn from its planar geometry with its windows, doors and skylights cut out and drawn in their own colours, each surface coloured by its type and grouped under its space and zone, in the file’s units.

Triangle geometry with PBR materials, textures and the full node hierarchy.

The luminaire as its GLDF package builds it, in metres: the L3D model with every part placed and its light-emitting surfaces, and each emitter’s photometric web drawn from the light-emitting object it sits on, with the other variants’ webs on their own layers.

The glTF scene graph with PBR materials, plus its .bin and image siblings when they travel with it.

A Blitz3D level (.glw) as its level editor saves it: the terrain built from its heightmap image at the stored scale and textured with its colour map, every model placed from the .b3d files uploaded with it, planes, sprites, trigger volumes and markers for spawn points, lights and sounds, with its key-framed movement to play. Files that did not come along are drawn as stand-ins.

The luminaire’s candela distribution, drawn as a 3D photometric web coloured by intensity, with the C0-C180 and C90-C270 polar curves and the luminaire outline from the dimensions the file states. Every LM-63 revision and symmetry type.

Walls, slabs, windows, doors and MEP as tessellated solids, grouped into per-type layers. IFC in its XML encoding (.ifcxml) and zipped (.ifczip) opens the same way.

NURBS surfaces and trimmed B-rep solids, tessellated through OpenCASCADE.

The display mesh Inventor saves inside a part or an assembly: every face of every body as Inventor tessellated it, in the body’s colour, and in an assembly every occurrence placed where the assembly has it, in centimetres, the right way up. Parts with no bodies open to a notice with the document’s own thumbnail; an assembly saved without its display cache opens from the part files uploaded with it.

The product structure of a JT file: every assembly, sub-assembly and placed part, drawn from the most detailed tessellation of each shape, in its saved colour, at its saved position and in the file’s units. JT 8, 9 and 10 files open, and so do Siemens NX parts (.prt) through the JT display data NX saves inside them. A multi-file JT assembly places the part files that arrive with it and names the rest. The exact B-rep and PMI are not read.

The luminaire’s 3D model in metres: every OBJ part placed and turned as structure.xml says, parts on joints at their default angles, faces in their material colours, the light-emitting surfaces and the outlines of the light-emitting objects on layers of their own.

The luminaire’s candela distribution, scaled to absolute candela and expanded from its symmetry, drawn as a 3D photometric web coloured by intensity, with the C0-C180 and C90-C270 polar curves and the luminaire body from the dimensions the file states.

Collapsed Editable Poly and Editable Mesh geometry, parametric primitives, the object hierarchy with instancing, layers, and material colors.

Every placed part of a Navisworks model or cache, drawn from the tessellated shapes Navisworks stores, at the position and in the material colour it saved, with grid and centre lines as lines. A shape used many times is decoded once and placed at every use. Models exported from Revit are in feet; the rest keep the file’s own units. A project file (.nwf) draws the linked models uploaded with it together and names the ones still missing.

Triangle and quad geometry, UVs and normals, with material colors from the companion .mtl file.

The exact B-rep the modelling kernel wrote: solid and sheet bodies with their analytic and NURBS faces, in both the text (.x_t) and binary (.x_b) encodings, tessellated through the STEP pipeline.

The shelving section of a NielsenIQ Spaceman planogram saved as text: every fixture (base, back panel, shelves) as a solid, and every product placement as its facings, sized from the product’s own dimensions, named with the product and its UPC, in centimetres.

Supported Archicad building geometry: walls with door and window openings cut through them, slabs, pitched roofs, zones, beams, columns, morphs, meshes and terrain. PLN and PLA files from Archicad 25, 27 and 29 have been tested.

Vertices and faces with per-vertex color, the usual output of a 3-D scanner or photogrammetry run.

The scene a Prisma3D project holds: every object’s polygon mesh, placed, turned and scaled as the app left it, objects grouped under their parents, each face in its material’s colour, in metres.

The flat as Remplanner saved it, in centimetres at real size: every wall at its saved height with mitred corners and its door, doorway and window openings cut through it, each room’s floor on a layer named with its area, ceilings on a layer that starts hidden, and furniture and fittings as boxes at their saved size, named by item.

An ArtCAM relief as ArtCAM or Carveco saves it: the height of every pixel as one smooth surface at the relief’s real size and position, in millimetres or inches, closed with sides and a base down to its lowest point. Very large reliefs are averaged to about 1.5 million points.

Revit 2011 and later, rebuilt from the element database: walls with their joins and openings cut, floors, roofs, ceilings, stairs, railings, columns, framing and placed families, in per-category layers. Loadable families (.rfa) open as the component itself.

The exact B-rep ACIS saves: solid and sheet bodies with their plane, cylinder, cone, sphere, torus and NURBS faces trimmed by their edges, from the text (.sat) and binary (.sab) encodings and Autodesk’s ASM dialect alike, tessellated with each body’s colour in the units the file declares.

The OpenSCAD program run as OpenSCAD runs it: modules, functions, loops and every built-in solid, transform, boolean, extrusion, offset, hull and minkowski, with OpenSCAD’s exact facet counts from $fn, $fa and $fs, color() colours, and text in OpenSCAD’s own default font. include<> and use<> files are read from the same ZIP.

The display model a Solid Edge Viewer document carries: every part of an assembly placed where the author left it, in its saved colour, drawn from the tessellated faces Solid Edge wrote, in millimetres.

The whole home: walls with the openings their doors and windows cut, room floors and ceilings, and every placed piece of furniture with its own model, colours and textures, level by level, in centimetres.

Faces, groups and components, layers (tags), and material colors, from every SketchUp version.

The assembly as SolidWorks saved it, already assembled, with each component in place. Assemblies that reference external part files carry no geometry and need a STEP export instead.

The display mesh SolidWorks itself draws, saved in the file as triangle strips per face and decoded here in meters with smooth normals.

The Parasolid B-rep bodies Solid Edge saves inside its part and sheet-metal documents: the exact kernel geometry, tessellated through the STEP pipeline.

The B-rep solids and surfaces of the assembly, tessellated to display meshes, with the product tree and real units.

A single triangle soup. STL stores no color, no units, no parts and no layers, only the surface.

The luminaire’s intensity table from a TM-33-18, TM-33-23 or UNI 11733 document, emitters on one grid summed, drawn as a 3D photometric web coloured by intensity, with the C0-C180 and C90-C270 polar curves and the luminaire outline from the dimensions the file states. Radiant and photon tables are drawn the same way.

The meshes of an ECMA-363 U3D file, or of the U3D model inside a 3D PDF, with each node placed, its material colours and the progressive-mesh detail resolved to the full level. A PDF with several 3D annotations opens the first model.

The composed stage: meshes with their UVs and normals, the prim hierarchy, UsdPreviewSurface materials with the textures bundled in the package, and the scale the stage declares in metersPerUnit. Reads the .usdz package, the binary .usdc crate and the ASCII .usda layer alike.

VRML 2.0 and VRML 1.0: IndexedFaceSet, IndexedLineSet and PointSet shapes with their materials, including PROTO definitions, Switch and LOD nodes, and gzipped .wrz files.

X3D in both encodings, the XML .x3d most tools write and the classic-VRML .x3dv: shapes, transforms, materials and image textures, including the triangle, strip, fan and quad sets and the CAD grouping nodes X3D adds to VRML. Prototype instances and scripts are not expanded.

A GTA V model as the PC release stores it (a .ydr drawable, a .ydd dictionary of them such as ped clothing, or a .yft fragment such as a vehicle): every mesh at its most detailed level, upright, in metres, with the diffuse textures from the model and from any .ytd shared with it.

Artwork from both eras: Illustrator 9 and later through the PDF pipeline, Illustrator 8 and earlier as PostScript paths, layers and text.

The board as CircuitPro laid it out: every drawn trace and flashed pad with the aperture it was made with, on CircuitPro’s own layers and the films imported into the job, in machine coordinates.

Every page of the drawing as vector shapes at its real size in millimetres: rectangles, ellipses, curves and paths with their solid and fountain fills and outlines, PowerClips, transparency, text and embedded pictures, on the drawing’s own layers. CorelDRAW 7 and later.

The flat sheet-metal part as cncKad drew it: every line, arc and circle of the profile and its holes, and the marked points, in millimetres, on separate layers for the geometry and the points.

Every sheet of a Solid Edge draft, drawn from the metafile Solid Edge saves for Solid Edge Viewer at the sheet’s real paper size in millimetres, with a picker for each sheet. Drafts saved without that viewer data open to a notice.

Every stitch of a Tajima DST design in sewing order, each thread change on its own layer, with jumps and trims left out. DST stores no thread colours, so each thread is drawn in a stand-in colour.

Published 2-D vector sheets and 3-D HOOPS models, with a picker for multi-sheet sets.

Model and paper space linework, blocks, hatches, dimensions, text and layers, plus 3-D solids where the drawing has them.

Entities, blocks and layers from ASCII and binary DXF, including 3-D faces and meshes when the file carries them.

The picture Wilcom stored in the design, laid at the design’s real size, with the stitch, trim and colour-change counts and the thread table the file states. The stitches themselves are encrypted in .emb files and are not drawn.

The picture as vector lines, fills, gradients, text and embedded images, replayed record by record from its EMF and EMF+ records, clipping included, on its own page at its own size in millimetres. A compressed .emz opens the same way.

The artwork as vector paths, fills, strokes, dashes, clipping, text and embedded images, drawn by following the file’s PostScript, on its own page at its real size in millimetres. When the PostScript cannot be read, the preview picture the file embeds is shown and labelled as a preview. A .ps document opens at its first page.

Every stitch of a Melco EXP design in sewing order, each thread change on its own layer, with jumps and trims left out. EXP stores no thread colours, so each thread is drawn in a stand-in colour.

The font as a specimen sheet: its name set in its own letters, its details, sample lines, a size waterfall and a character map of every glyph it maps with its code point, each glyph a vector outline.

The whole board from one GenCAD file: the outline, copper tracks at their widths on every layer that carries them, every pad of every placed part, vias, drill holes, component outlines and silkscreen, and each part’s reference designator, with bottom-side parts mirrored onto the bottom layers, in millimetres.

RS-274X and X2 copper, mask, silkscreen, paste and outline layers plus Excellon drill data, stacked in fabrication order.

The package’s vector layers as a real-world-scale map: contour lines, roads and boundaries as polylines and point features as points, one layer per package layer, in the units of the package’s projection, with contours at their heights when the package stores vertex elevations.

Every stitch of a Janome JEF design, each thread on its own layer in its Janome thread-chart colour, with jumps left out.

Placemark points, paths and outlines (holes, MultiGeometry and GPS tracks included) as a real-world-scale map, with folders as layers, placemark names as labels and each style’s line and fill colors.

The score engraved as sheet music: the title, author and lyricist, every visible staff with its clefs, key and time signatures, notes and rests with their beams, dots, accidentals, ties and slurs, bar lines, repeats and endings, dynamics, tempo marks and text, and every verse of the lyrics under its notes in the language it was written in.

Every stitch of a Brother PES or PEC design, each thread on its own layer in its colour: the thread list the file stores, or the Brother thread chart. Jumps and trims are left out.

The run as a chromatogram report: the sample name, ID, vial, acquisition time, method, instrument and LabSolutions version, the detector trace against retention time in its own units, the compounds of the method marked by name, strips for the oven temperature, pressure and flow traces that change during the run, and the compound results table with areas, heights and concentrations.

Points, polylines and polygons as a real-world-scale map, and MultiPatch records as 3-D buildings, with units taken from the .prj.

Every cut path of the design as placed on the page, curves included, in millimetres, with the page outline. A design whose paths can’t be read shows the preview image the file stores.

Paths, shapes, strokes, fills and text, with the document transform stack applied.

Every stitch of a Pfaff or Husqvarna Viking VP3 design, each thread on its own layer in the colour the file stores, with trims left out.

Each page of the drawing at its paper size in millimetres: shapes, groups and master shapes with their fills, gradients, lines, arrowheads and themed colours, connectors, text and embedded pictures, with the page’s background page under it and its layers in the layer panel. Drawings, stencils and templates from Visio 2013 and later.

The picture as vector lines, fills, text and embedded bitmaps, replayed record by record from its 16-bit records (or from the EMF a converted WMF carries), on its own page at its own size in millimetres. A compressed .wmz opens the same way.

Every scan in the file, cartesian or spherical, placed by its registration pose, with RGB or intensity and one layer per scan, read by range and sampled evenly to the device’s point budget. Panoramas and photos in the file are not drawn.

The splats of a GaussianSplats3D .ksplat file, at any compression level: each one’s centre in its colour, as a point cloud of the splat centres. Splats are not surfaces, so the conversions are point clouds and pictures.

LiDAR and photogrammetry points with per-point RGB, intensity and ASPRS classification, including LASzip-compressed .laz.

Leica PTS and PTX scans and XYZ point lists, with RGB or intensity when the file carries it, read in a stream and sampled evenly to the device’s point budget, so multi-gigabyte scans open too.

The splats of an antimatter15 .splat capture (also written by SuperSplat and Luma): each one’s centre in its colour, as a point cloud of the splat centres. Splats are not surfaces, so the conversions are point clouds and pictures.

The splats of a Niantic .spz capture (Scaniverse, Spark; versions 1 to 4): each one’s centre in its base colour, as a point cloud of the splat centres. Splats are not surfaces, so the conversions are point clouds and pictures.

An AV1-compressed still image.

An uncompressed Windows device-independent bitmap.

Scanline and tiled OpenEXR in half or float, with ZIP, PIZ, PXR24, DWAA, DWAB or RLE compression, multi-part files and named layers. Colour is tone-mapped for display; normal maps and other data are shown as stored.

An indexed-color bitmap. Animations show their first frame.

A Radiance RGBE or XYZE image, run-length encoded or flat, tone-mapped for display with automatic exposure.

A JPEG photograph at full resolution.

A lossless bitmap, with its alpha channel.

The flattened image a Photoshop document stores, in any colour mode and at 8, 16 or 32 bits, from .psd and large .psb files alike; a file saved without it shows its visible layers laid over each other, or its thumbnail.

The full-resolution sheet image saved in the file: every view, dimension and title-block field, with a picker for each sheet.

A scanner or archive TIFF, and a single-band GeoTIFF as a terrain mesh.

A WebP bitmap, lossy or lossless.

Every topic of a BCF file (2.0, 2.1 or 3.0): its title, status, type, priority, labels, author, dates, assignee, due date and description, its viewpoint snapshots and its comments in order, on one page.

Comma-, semicolon-, tab- and pipe-separated text, with the delimiter, the encoding (UTF-8, UTF-16 or Windows-1252) and decimal commas detected, shown as a sheet with numbers right-aligned and the header row frozen.

A Word 97-2003 document or template, paginated the way Word paginates it: text in any language, character and paragraph formatting, the style sheet, numbered and bulleted lists, tables, headers, footers, footnotes and pictures. Text boxes and comments are not shown.

The document paginated the way Word paginates it: style cascade, line breaking against real font metrics, tables, headers, footnotes and images.

An Internet message (RFC 822 with MIME) as a mail app saves it: the headers, the plain-text and HTML body with the pictures sent inline, and every attachment, with encoded names decoded. A model, archive or document attached to it opens in the viewer, and forwarded messages are read too.

The message as Outlook saved it: subject, sender, recipients, date and the body (its HTML, including the HTML Outlook keeps inside its rich-text body, with the pictures sent inline), plus every attachment. A model, archive or document attached to it opens in the viewer, and forwarded messages are read too.

The tables of an Apple Numbers file (Numbers 3 and later), every sheet from a sheet picker, with the values Numbers stored. Charts and pictures are not drawn.

Every sheet of a LibreOffice or OpenOffice Calc file, with the values as formatted, column widths and merged cells. Charts and pictures are not drawn.

Every page rendered at full resolution, with selectable text and clickable links.

Every slide of the deck, one at a time from a slide picker, drawn with its layout and master: text with its fonts, bullets and numbering, shapes, pictures (EMF and WMF included), tables and backgrounds. Charts are drawn from their stored values and SmartArt from its stored drawing, both approximate. A .ppsx or .potx opens the same way.

Excel 97-2003 workbooks in both the BIFF8 format and the older BIFF5: every worksheet, with number and date formats, column widths, row heights, fonts, fills, alignment, merged cells and frozen panes. Charts and pictures are not drawn.

Every worksheet, one at a time from a sheet picker: cell values with their number and date formats, column widths and row heights, fills, bold, italic and colored text, alignment, merged cells and frozen panes. Charts and pictures are not drawn.

Save Rhino as an older version

Save DWG as an older version

Save DXF as an older version

Save VRML as an older version