- Extension
- .stl
- .ply
- Category
- 3D
- 3D
- Developer
- 3D Systems
- Stanford University
- Description
- Stl is the standard 3D data transmission file format mainly used for 3D printing. STL contains surface geometry descriptions of 3D objects and it uses a series of triangles to describe the surface geometry of a 3D model.
- 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-pki.stl
- application/octet-stream
