What is the difference between .3mf and .ply?
- Extension
 - .3mf
 - .ply
 
- Category
 - 3D
 - 3D
 
- Developer
 - 3MF Consortium
 - Stanford University
 
- Description
 - 3mf is an additive manufacturing XML-based file format. 3mf files hold data on color, material, and all other details that can't be stored in the STL format.
 - It is a 3D model file format developed by Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory. PLY is mainly used to describe objects in a collection of polygons.
 
- MIME Type
 - application/vnd.ms-package.3dmanufacturing-3dmodel+xml
 - application/octet-stream
 
- Wikipedia
 - .3mf on Wikipedia
 - .ply on Wikipedia