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Best Practices: Choosing a proper 3D-file

Best Practices: Choosing a proper 3D-file

Goal

The goal of this page is to advise our clients on preferred 3D file formats for Prespective, to enable high quality and efficient modeling.

Table of Contents

Description

We strongly advise you to work with the right quality of 3D files in Prespective. In this article we share some tips and best practices to help you choose the right 3D file types to work with. Taking the proper steps with your 3D data early on in the project will greatly help project management and optimization later on. You will always try to prevent to get back to this step later on. This costs you a lot of time to fix things later on.

Recommendations for cooperative projects

The following table shows recommended file formats to deliver to Unit040:

File Extension

Recommended for Unit040

Type

Tool

File Extension

Recommended for Unit040

Type

Tool

.SLDASM

1

CAD native

SolidWorks

.SLDPRT

1

CAD native

SolidWorks

.STEP AP203

3

CAD exchange

STEP

.STEP AP214

2

CAD exchange

STEP

.STEP AP242

2

CAD exchange

STEP

.GLTF / .GLB

2

CAD exchange

GLTF

.RFA

1

CAD native

Autodesk Revit

.RVT

1

CAD native

Autodesk Revit

.DWG

1

CAD native

AutoCAD 3D

.DXF

1

CAD native

AutoCAD 3D

.IPT

1

CAD native

Autodesk Inventor

.IAM

1

CAD native

Autodesk Inventor

CATIA v4&v5

1

CAD native

Catia

IGES

2

CAD exchange

IGES

.SKP

3

PLY native

Google SketchUp

.Max

1

PLY native

3DsMax

.3ds

1

PLY native

3DsMax

.FBX

2

PLY exchange

Autodesk

.OBJ

3

PLY exchange

OBJ

.DAE

2

PLY exchange

COLLADA

 

The following table describes the different file types in the Type column in above table:

Format

Type

Recommendation

Description

Format

Type