PLY Converter
Scanner friendly meshes with per vertex colour. Convert PLY files into other formats, or write PLY files from any supported input, all inside your browser.
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What is PLY?
PLY was designed for range scanner output, so it stores arbitrary per vertex properties such as colour, confidence and intensity. Both an ASCII and a compact binary variant exist and both are widely supported.
Typical uses
- 3D scanning and photogrammetry
- Point cloud and mesh research
- Vertex colour transfer
Supported by
- MeshLab
- CloudCompare
- Blender
- RealityCapture
Format details
- Extensions
- .ply
- Full name
- Polygon File Format
- Category
- Triangle mesh
- Encoding
- Binary or text
- MIME type
- model/ply
- Direction
- read and write
Questions
What is a .ply file?
PLY was designed for range scanner output, so it stores arbitrary per vertex properties such as colour, confidence and intensity. Both an ASCII and a compact binary variant exist and both are widely supported.
Which applications use PLY?
MeshLab, CloudCompare, Blender, RealityCapture all work with .ply files.