Free glTF (.gltf) to 3MF (.3mf) converter — running entirely in your browser. No upload, no signup, no file limits: your files never leave your device.
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glTF is the Khronos royalty-free standard for transmitting 3D scenes. The JSON variant keeps the scene description human-readable with geometry in sidecar buffers, and the ecosystem — Babylon.js, Unity, Unreal, Blender and the browser engines — treats it as the native interchange format for real-time 3D.
3MF is the modern replacement for STL, backed by the 3MF Consortium (Microsoft, HP, Autodesk, Prusa and others). It stores watertight meshes together with units, colors, materials and print settings in one ZIP-based file, and current slicers increasingly prefer it over STL.
| glTF | 3MF | |
|---|---|---|
| Geometry | GPU-ready triangle mesh | Watertight triangle mesh |
| Units | Meters by spec | Yes, required by spec |
| Colors & materials | Full PBR materials | Colors & materials |
| Animations | Yes | No |
| Typical use | Real-time engines & web pipelines | Modern 3D printing |
Yes — free with no accounts, no watermarks and no file-size limits. Conversion runs on your own machine, so there are no server costs behind it.
No. The converter runs entirely in your browser using WebAssembly. Your .gltf file never leaves your device, which makes it safe for confidential designs.
Yes — parts and assembly hierarchy are preserved where 3MF supports them, and you can optionally merge everything into a single mesh during conversion.
Yes. Every converted model opens in the built-in 3D viewer with an assembly tree, display modes and section views, so you can inspect the result first.
glTF can contain textures and animation, but this converter carries geometry, hierarchy and one flat base color per part; texture maps, rigs and animation tracks are omitted. The 3MF writer keeps model units, part names and one base color per mesh, but it does not write textures, advanced materials or print settings.
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