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| What’s kept | Shape and colours; textures left out |
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When to use DAE: Exchanging models with older engines, SketchUp and Google Earth.
.stl
A mesh format created by 3D Systems in 1987 for stereolithography printers. It describes a surface only as triangles, with no colour, units or materials, in text or binary form.
Sending models to 3D printers and slicers.
Opens in Cura, PrusaSlicer, Bambu Studio, Blender, Quick Look on Mac
About STL files.dae
An XML 3D interchange format created by Sony Computer Entertainment and now maintained by the Khronos Group. It holds geometry, materials, effects, skeletons and animation.
Exchanging models with older engines, SketchUp and Google Earth.
Opens in SketchUp, Maya, Cinema 4D, Quick Look on Mac
About DAE filesGoing the other way? Convert DAE to STL
Everything that converts to DAE
Need to change it first? Open the 3D viewer
Drop your STL file on this page, or choose it. Anyfile converts it on your device in a moment and the DAE 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 DAE inside.