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| What’s kept | Shape and colours; textures left out |
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When to use 3MF: Ready-to-print projects with colours, multiple parts and printer settings.
.ply
The Polygon File Format, also called the Stanford Triangle Format, devised at Stanford in the 1990s. It stores vertices and faces with extra properties such as per-vertex colour.
3D scans, point clouds and research data.
Opens in MeshLab, CloudCompare, Blender
About PLY files.3mf
A ZIP-based 3D printing format from the 3MF Consortium, founded in 2015 by Microsoft and others. Unlike STL it keeps units, colours, materials and several objects, and can carry print settings.
Ready-to-print projects with colours, multiple parts and printer settings.
Opens in PrusaSlicer, Bambu Studio, Cura, Windows 3D Builder
About 3MF filesGoing the other way? Convert 3MF to PLY
Everything that converts to 3MF
Need to change it first? Open the 3D viewer
Drop your PLY file on this page, or choose it. Anyfile converts it on your device in a moment and the 3MF downloads straight away. To change it first, open it in the 3D viewer.
No. The file is read and converted by your own browser, and nothing is sent to a server. You can check: open your browser’s developer tools, go to Network, and convert a file. No upload appears.
Yes. Drop them together and you get one ZIP with every 3MF inside.