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3MF to FBX Converter

Convert a 3MF print package to a self-contained FBX with the base material colour, ready for Maya, 3ds Max or Blender. Runs in your browser.

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Supported Formats

.glb.gltf.obj.fbx.stl.ply.3mf.off.zip

Format Information

Source Format

3MF.3mf

3MF (3D Manufacturing Format)

3MF is the modern replacement for STL, built for 3D printing and industrial additive manufacturing. It is an OPC package — a ZIP container holding XML metadata and mesh parts — which is why it can carry colour and material information that STL cannot.

What it carries: Triangle geometry, per-vertex colour and a base material colour. This converter writes geometry and colour; image textures and the wider 3MF material model are not written, and textures inside an imported 3MF are not read.

Open a 3MF file in the viewer

Target Format

FBX.fbx

FBX (Filmbox Scene)

FBX is Autodesk's scene format, written by Maya, 3ds Max and MotionBuilder. It is a compact container for a whole DCC scene, which is why it is the usual hand-off format when a model comes back from a modelling or animation package.

What it carries: Meshes, UVs, vertex colours, materials with embedded texture maps, a bone hierarchy, skinning, and keyframe animation clips. Blend shapes and Autodesk-specific property types are not read by this converter.

Open a FBX file in the viewer

About this conversion

A 3MF print package into Autodesk's scene format. The geometry is written as an FBX node with a material, ready to be opened and worked on in Maya, 3ds Max or Blender.

Why convert 3MF to FBX

  • Open a 3MF print asset in a DCC tool for cleanup or retopology.
  • Take a manufactured part into a rendering or asset pipeline that expects FBX.
  • Deliver a self-contained scene file with an embedded material.

What happens during the conversion

Geometry

The 3MF triangles are written as an FBX mesh node with faces triangulated and transforms baked in. The 3MF part structure is flattened, because FBX scene organisation comes from what you import it into.

Materials and textures

The 3MF base material colour is carried into the FBX material, and any texture map on it is embedded in the file rather than left beside it. Per-vertex colour from the 3MF is not carried, and the texture image inside a 3MF is not written.

Common use cases

  • Cleaning up or retopologising a print model in a DCC tool.
  • Rendering a manufactured part through a studio pipeline.
  • Meeting a vendor intake requirement of FBX.

Limitations of this conversion

  • Per-vertex colour from the 3MF is not carried into the FBX.
  • The texture image inside the 3MF is not written, so a texture-mapped package arrives with flat colour.
  • FBX is a large container, so a compact 3MF can become a much bigger FBX.
  • The package's unit attribute is read but never used to rescale, so the coordinates in the .fbx are the numbers from the 3MF and the unit has to be set by hand on import.

How to convert 3MF to FBX

Three steps in the browser. Nothing is uploaded to a server, so an unwieldy file is limited only by your own device's memory.

1
STEP 1

Upload your .3mf

The 3MF package is read directly; per-vertex colour is not carried into the FBX, so the base material colour is what survives.

2
STEP 2

Convert to FBX

Geometry and the base material colour are written, with the file self-contained.

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STEP 3

Import the FBX in your DCC tool

Check the import scale and the material preview.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Questions people ask when turning 3MF files into FBX.

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