What is the difference between .3mf and .png?
- Extension
- .3mf
- .png
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- 3D
- Raster Image
- Developer
- 3MF Consortium
- PNG Development Group
- 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.
- A PNG file is an image file stored in the Portable Network Graphic (PNG) format. It contains a bitmap of indexed colors and uses lossless compression, similar to a .GIF file but without copyright limitations. PNG files are commonly used to store graphics for web images.
- MIME Type
- application/vnd.ms-package.3dmanufacturing-3dmodel+xml
- image/png
- Sample
- sample.png
- Wikipedia
- .3mf on Wikipedia
- .png on Wikipedia