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