Alphabetical list of 3D data formats

Alphabetical list of 3D API specifications and data formats

http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/dataformats/

3D2	Stereo CAD-3D object format
3DML	Flatland 3DML language
AC3D	AC3D
3DS ASE ASC	3D-Studio File Format 3D Studio Max Ascii Export Format 3D Studio Ascii Format
ALC	Alchemy III molecule file format
AL2	Alchemy 2000 molecule file format
BMF	BMF by David Farrell, exported from 3dStudio by "view3ds'.
CDF	Cyberspace Description Format
CGM	Computer Graphics Metafile (ISO/IEC standardfor vector graphics)
cinema4d	Cinema4d file format from "Maxon Computer"
COB	Calgari trueSpace2 File Format
DAE	Sony / Khronos Collada
cube	Gaussian cube file format for volumetric data
DF3	Povray DF3 density (volumetric) format
Direct-X	Microsofts answer to QuickDraw3D and OpenGL
DMO	Duke Nukem 3D or Redneck Rampage
DWF	Format used by AutoDesks attempt at an internet format for it's models, used by the WHIP viewer.
DXF2000 Release 14 Release 12 Release 10	DXF, AutoDesk/AutoCAD interchange format in the various format versions that have appeared over the years.
Minimal 3D DXF	The minimal requirements to represent 3D geometry in DXF, useful for creating geometry for commercial packages from your own software.
EGDR	MOLA Experiment Gridded Data Record
FACT	From ElectricImage
FBX	Autodesk FBX
FFIVW	File Format for the Interchange of Virtual Worlds
fld	AVS Field format.
FLT	OpenFlight format by MulitGen Inc
GEO	Videoscape geo an early Amiga 3D animation program written by Allen Hastings.
Geom	Geom format as used by "Stereo", an OpenGL interactive stereo pair package.
GLF	3D font format for the GLF library
GOCAD	GOCAD ascii data format
HIV	HyperChem molecular format
HPGL	Hewlett Packard Graphics Language for platters
hf	Hyperfun: Language for F-rep Geometric Modelling
IGES	Initial Graphics Exchange Specification by the National Bureau of Standards
ILDA	International Laser Display Association
Infini3D	Infini3D internal format
Inventor	Inventor ASCII format from SGI
IRIT	IRIT interchange format by Gershon Elber
LWOB Lightwave 5.x	LightWave Object File format Importing geometry into Lightwave 5.x
MDL	From Cornell University and Indiana University
MGF	Materials and Geometry format originally appearing as part of the Radiance package. By Greg Ward, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
MI	Mental Images, as used by Mental Ray, SoftImage, and others
MOL2	Tripos mol2 molecule format
MovieBYU	Format from Birmingham Young University to represent polygons, originally designed for FORTRAN file IO.
MS3D	MilkShape 3D format
MSLD	Manchester Scene Description Language
MTL	Lightwave / OBJ material file
NDO	NENDO by Izware
nff	For Eric Haines' SPD package
nff	Neutral ASCII File Format
enff	Extensions to Neutral File Format
NUAGES	Format for the NUAGES software, a tool for 3D reconstruction from parallel cross-sections
OBJ	Wavefront .obj file format specification for the Advanced Visualizer software.
OFF	OFF format as used by the Geometry Center
OFF	OFF format specification originally developed by WSE.
OOGL	As used by GeomView
PEDR	MOLA Precision Experiment Data Records from NASA
PDB (V2.1)	Protein Data Base (Atomic Coordinate File)
PHD	PolyHedra Database (NetLib)
PI	Format for the polyray raytracer by Alexander Enzmann
PLG, FIG, WLD	Virtual World formats as used in Gossamer, Rend386, and others.
PLY	Polygon File Format also known as the Stanford Triangle Format.
Poly	Another Polygon Format from the University of Iowa, Image Analysis Facility
PS	Introduction to Postscript
POVRAY (v3.6)	Scene format for the Persistence Of Vision RAYtracer (and derivatves).
PVL	Processed VoLume (and other RAW formats) as used by the Drishti volume rendering software.
Macperspective	Translator for this undocumented format.
PowerFlip	Data format (SGI)
PRT	PRT raytracer format by Kory Hamzeh
PRT	Unigraphics "parts" file format.
q3o	Quick3D Object File and Scene file format (.q3s)
QuickDraw3D Primitive summary	Apple's Quickdraw 3D meta format
radio	Radio format by Anthony D'Agostino
RAD V3.1 RAD V2.5 ArchiCAD -> Radiance StrataStudio -> Radiance	Radiance scene description by Greg Ward. ArchiCAD to Radiance converter StrataStudio to Radiance converter
RAW	PovRay raw triangle format
RAY RAY summary	RayShade scene description format, a solid modelling by Craig Kolb.
RIB	Pixar RenderMan scene description (RenderMan Interface Bytestream)
Rotater	Macintosh interactive line and point viewer by Craig Kloeden.
rsd	Playstation
SAT	ACIS 3D format for viewing and transferring solid information
SCENE	A proposed format for 3D geometry
SCN	SCeNe format designed to replace SFF for the Rtrace ray-tracer.
SDML Old SDML	Spatial Data Modelling Language
SHP	ERSI Shapefile
SLC	SLiCe format
STL	Industry standard format for stereoLithography.
STP	SteinLib format
STEP	Standard for exchange of product model
Super3D	Text export format used by the Macintosh modeller Super3D.
SURF	Export format from 3D-XplorMath
Tachyon	Preliminary scene format for tachyon by John E. Stone
FORM TDDD	By Impulse's Turbo Silver for Sense8's WorldToolKit Neutral File Format specification
tet	Format for tetrahedra, originating at the Computer Science department of Williams College.
TIN	Triangular Irregular Network
TM	LONI triangle surface model format to represent surface models.
TP	TecPlot file format
TRI	Triangle format
U3D	Universal 3D
UNREAL	UNREAL File Format
V	VIVID file format by Stephen Coy
VEF	Vertex - Edge - Face format
Vision3D	Text format for the Macintosh Vision3D modeller
VLA	Digistar II VLA format
vmd	VMD - WinOSi (XOSi, MacOSi) raytacer by Michael Granz.
vol	Paul Bourke volumetric data format
VRI	Virtual Reality Interchange Language
WLD	Morfit's WorldBuilder format
WRM	World Reference Model by Multigen Inc.
VRML V1.0 VRML 97	The Virtual Reality Modelling Language
WMF	Windows Metafile Format
x3d	WEB3D consortium
XYZ	XYZ molecular format
YASRT	YASRT - Yet Another Simple Ray Tracer
YAODL	SGI PowerFlip format