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Updated August 2026
DCC file in. PLY out.
A minority path: FBX from a DCC, PLY into a research app. Prefer FBX to GLB for web and FBX to STL for print. FBX still cannot be written here.
Source FBX, target PLY, drop, download binary PLY.
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Source is FBX. The File API reads it in this tab. Nothing is posted. Keep it under 80 MB.
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Binary PLY from the FBX mesh.
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Open in the research tool. Keep the FBX for Maya or Max.
This page is only FBX → PLY. Other pairs have their own keep and lose notes so they do not repeat this conversion.
| On this conversion | What happens |
|---|---|
| Keeps | Faces in PLY. |
| Drops | FBX materials and a web pack. |
| Next step | The PLY-aware app. Web users wanted FBX to GLB. |
| Attribute | Result on the reference scene |
|---|---|
| Separate objects | Merged into 1 |
| UV coordinates | Kept |
| Vertex colour | Kept |
| Material names | Lost |
| Vertices on the reference scene | 48 of 48 |
| Mesh | Source | PLY | Change | Vertices written |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| mug.glb | 880 KB | 1,221 KB | 1.4x | 25,000 |
| lion.glb | 8,768 KB | 12,176 KB | 1.4x | 249,369 |
FBX as the source: Geometry only. Color and clips are dropped. Measured 2026-08-27 by running this converter’s own loaders and exporters headlessly. How every format was measured.
FBX is parsed with the File API. PLY is written in memory. FBX materials and a web pack. That is a format rule, not an upload. Files over 80 MB are refused because RAM is the limit.
A minority path: FBX from a DCC, PLY into a research app. Prefer FBX to GLB for web and FBX to STL for print. FBX still cannot be written here.
Source FBX, target PLY, drop, download binary PLY. No Blender and no account.
Pipelines that standardized on PLY. Web and print should pick GLB or STL.
Not from this product. Keep the original .fbx.
No. FBX is parsed here and PLY is written in memory. There is no convert API.
Yes. Open the FBX viewer if you only need to orbit. Convert when the next tool actually wants PLY.
The PLY-aware app. Web users wanted FBX to GLB.