Convert PLY to OBJ in your browser

ASCII PLY — the format photogrammetry and laser-scan pipelines export — is plain text, so it is parsed and rewritten as Wavefront OBJ right here on your machine.

الأداة والعناوين بالعربية. أما الملاحظات المرجعية أدناه فهي بالإنجليزية.

PLY → OBJ converter

Runs entirely in this browser tab. Your file is never uploaded and nothing is stored.

أفلِت ملف PLY هنا، أو اضغط لاختياره

or — no sign-up required

هل تحتاج إلى متخصص في CAD/BIM للتعديل على هذا الملف؟

هل تحتاج إلى معالجة ملف CAD أو نموذج ثلاثي الأبعاد؟ انشر فرصة عمل تحدد صيغة المصدر والصيغة المطلوبة والفحوص اللازمة، واتفق على نطاق العمل قبل البدء.

خطوة بخطوة

  1. 1Export your scan as ASCII PLY (binary PLY has to be re-saved as ASCII first; MeshLab and CloudCompare both do this in one step).
  2. 2Drop the .ply file above.
  3. 3Download the .obj and import it into your renderer, mesh tool or CAD package.
  4. 4Set the units on import — PLY declares none.

أمور يجب الحذر منها

  • Vertex colours, normals and scan confidence values are not carried over: standard OBJ geometry has nowhere to put them.
  • Point clouds with no face element cannot become an OBJ mesh — mesh them in CloudCompare or MeshLab first.
  • Binary PLY is refused rather than guessed at, so you never get a silently mangled mesh.
PLY — Polygon File Format

The Stanford scan format. Plain text in its ASCII flavour, which is why photogrammetry and laser-scan meshes can be rewritten here.

OBJ — Wavefront OBJ

A plain-text mesh format listing vertices and faces — openly documented, which is why it can be read and rewritten in the browser.

أسئلة يطرحها الرسامون الفنيون

Why does it say my PLY is binary?

The header line reads 'format binary_little_endian'. Open it in MeshLab and re-save with the ASCII option ticked.

Can I keep the scan colours?

Not in OBJ geometry. Keep the PLY alongside it, or bake the colours to a texture in your mesh tool.

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