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Anyfile converts a USD scene to a PLY model for free, right in your browser: the file is never uploaded.
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| What’s kept | Shape only |
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When to use PLY: 3D scans, point clouds and research data.
.usd
Pixar’s open scene framework, released as open source in 2016. A .usd file can be text or binary and can layer and reference other files to build very large scenes.
Film and animation pipelines, and big scenes shared between Houdini, Maya and Blender.
Opens in Blender, Houdini, Maya, usdview, NVIDIA Omniverse
About USD files.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 filesEverything that converts to PLY
Need to change it first? Open the 3D viewer
Drop your USD file on this page, or choose it. Anyfile converts it on your device in a moment and the PLY 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.
No: PLY holds a single picture, so only the first frame is kept.
Yes. Drop them together and you get one ZIP with every PLY inside.