File formats reference

Applies to 2022.0 Update and later

File formats read and written by Netfabb

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CAD Formats

CAD Format Description Import Export

3DM

Rhino

Yes

CATPART

CGR

CATIA V5

Yes

FBX

FBX (Autodesk Filmbox)

Yes

G

PTC Granite (Creo)

Yes

IGES

IGS

Initial Graphics Exchange Specification

Yes

Yes ( only for parts that have retained their CAD nature)

IPT

Inventor

Yes

JT

Jupiter

Yes

MODEL

CATIA V4

Yes

NEU

PRT

XPR

Creo Parametric/ProE

Yes

SLDPRT

Solidworks

Yes

STEP

STP

Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data

Yes

Yes ( only for parts that have retained their CAD nature)

PRT

NX (Siemens)

Yes

SAT

ACIS

Yes

Yes ( only for parts that have retained their CAD nature)

SKP

SketchUp

Yes

SMT

SMB

Autodesk ShapeManager Format, ASM SMT

Yes

WIRE

ALIAS

Yes

X_B

X_T

Parasolid

Yes

Note: CAD import only includes colors; any textures are dropped and ignored.
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Mesh Formats

Mesh Format Description Import Export Import Colors and Textures Export Colors and Textures

3DS

Autodesk 3D modeling format

Yes

Yes

Yes

3MF

3D manufacturing format

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

AMF

Additive Manufacturing File

Yes

Yes

BINVOX

Binary Voxel format

Yes

Yes

GTS

GNU Tessellated Surfaces

Yes

Yes

NCM

Autodesk Netfabb Compressed Mesh

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

OBJ

Wavefront Object

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

PLY

Stanford Polygon

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

STL

Surface Tessellation Language (binary)

Yes

Yes

STL (ASCII)

Surface Tessellation Language (ASCII)

Yes

Yes

STL (color)

Surface Tessellation Language (color and texture)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

VRML

WRL

Virtual Reality Modeling Language

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

X3D

X3DB

Extensible 3D; ASCII, Binary

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

ZPR

Z-Print

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

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Slice Formats

Slice Format Description Import Export Used by

BINVOX

Binary Voxel Format

Yes

Yes

BMP

Windows® Bitmap

Yes

CLF

Common Layer File

Yes

Yes

Arcam

CLI

Common Layer Interface

Yes

Yes

EOS

DXF

Drawing Interchange Format

Yes

JPEG

Joint Photographic Experts Group

Yes

MTT

SLM Build File

Yes

Renishaw

PNG

Portable Network Graphics

Yes

PS

Adobe® PostScript

Yes

SLC

SLC

Yes

Yes

3D Systems, Arcam

SLI

Slice Layer Interface

Yes

Yes

EOS

SLM

SLM Build File

Yes

Yes

SLM Solutions

SSL

Stratasys Layer

Yes

Yes

Stratasys

SVG

Scalable Vector Graphics

Yes

USF

Universal Slice File

Yes

Yes

Available in Netfabb Premium and Ultimate only.

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