PLY

3d · also known as Stanford Triangle Format

Also known as the Stanford Triangle Format, PLY is a format for storing graphical objects that are described as a collection of polygons. PLY can be represented in ASCII or binary.

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• BlenderOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License, version 3.0
• DicomToMeshOpen sourcewrites · MIT License
• PDALOpen sourcereads and writes · 3-clause BSD License
• Q251322Open sourcereads and writes · GNU Library General Public License, version 2.0 or later
• Visualization LibraryOpen sourcereads and writes · BSD licenses
• CloudCompareOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License
• GigaMeshOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License
• MayaViOpen sourcereads · BSD licenses
• MeshLabOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License
• MitsubaOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License, version 3.0
• SALOMEOpen sourcereads · GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 or later
• Amirareads and writes
• MEF++writes · proprietary license
• Qlonereads and writes
• Qlone Dentalreads and writes
• Rhinoceros 3Dreads and writes · proprietary license
• TransMagicreads and writes
• VisualARQreads and writes
• 3D Utilitiesreads
• 3DReshaperreads
• ABViewerreads
• binvoxreads
• Global Mapperreads
• Intel Array Visualizerreads
• LightWave 3Dreads
• SOLIDWORKSreads · proprietary license
• SpaceClaimreads
• Tekla Structuresreads · proprietary license
• TetGenreads

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Sources

• File Formats Wiki
• PRONOM fmt/831
• Wikidata Q3077345

From Just Solve the File Format Problem (File Formats Wiki), PRONOM, Wikidata. Updated 2026-10-24.

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