3MF to STEP
Please find below the list of our other useful resources related to the 3MF and STEP interoperability and exchange that can help you with the 3MF to STEP conversion.
- Convert Solid Meshes to Faceted BREP in STEP File
- Convert SketchUp SKP Models with Component Instances to STEP
- Change 3D model units in STEP / IGES files
- Autoconverter for Batch Conversion of 3D Files
- Convert Rhino 3DM to STEP file format
- Explode component instances into mesh groups
3MF File
3MF (3D Manufacturing Format) is an open source XML file format developed by the 3MF Consortium to store three dimensional triangles with additional properties e.g. color, transparency or texture coordinates for the 3D printing industry. The 3MF file format becomes a modern replacement for the original STL 3D printing file format. Autoconverter or Automesher Application our 3MF file converters can read and write to and from 3MF file format thanks to the open source lib3mf library provided by the 3MF Consortium. However currently we do not support groups hierarchy for 3MF files.
STEP File
STEP (STandardized Exchange of Product) is a very popular file format for the data 3D exchange between different computer systems e.g. CAD, CAM or CAE. As the STEP geometry data are stored in a text form you can expect bigger file sizes when exporting triangular meshes with thousands of faces using the Autoconverter software. However, if your geometry defines manifold solid it will try to create optimized faceted STEP brep representation which should reduce STEP file size by one-third. The STEP file format supports colors per assembly, but without the alpha component, therefore any transparency setting will be lost in the final STEP file.