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Last updated 6 years ago

File Formats

Name

License

Encoding

Features

Open

Compressed XML

geometry, material, metadata, signature, texture, thumbnail

text or binary

Open

Zipped XML

color, constellations, curved triangles, formulas, geometry, material, metadata

Proprietary

(Drawing)

Proprietary

OpenXPS

(Drawing Exchange Format)

Proprietary

text/binary

(Design Web Format)

OpenXPS

Communicate design information

(Initial Graphics Exchange Specification)

Vendor-neutral

text

(Object)

Open

text

geometry

(Polygon File Format)

Open

text or binary

color, geometry, normals, texture, transparency

Proprietary

text or binary

geometry, normals

ISO

3MF
ACIS
AMF
CKD
DWG
DXF
DWF
IGES
OBJ
PLY
STL
STEP