Free 3D converter
Drop a PLY file and download it as STL, scaled and set on the build plate. The conversion runs in your browser, so the file never leaves your device. It keeps the exact shape and a real size in millimetres.
Drop a PLY file here
Converted to STL in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
GLB, glTF, OBJ, STL, PLY, FBX or 3MF, up to 300 MB. Add .mtl, .bin and texture files alongside.
Drop the .ply file or choose it from your device.
Turn the model, check its triangle count, and set the height you want to print in millimetres.
The .stl is written in a second or two for most models.
Every slicer reads STL. The PLY becomes a plain list of triangles, sized in millimetres and ready to slice.
Print bureaus and online quote tools ask for STL more than anything else.
Polygon File Format
PLY, also called the Stanford Triangle Format, was designed at Stanford in the mid-1990s for 3D scan data. It stores vertices with any properties you like, most often colours and normals, plus faces.
Stereolithography
STL was created by 3D Systems in 1987 for its stereolithography printers. It stores a surface as a list of triangles and nothing else: no colour, textures or units.
Yes. There is no account, watermark or limit on conversions. It accepts files up to 300 MB; how large a model your browser can handle depends on your device's memory.
No. The conversion runs in your browser with the open-source three.js loaders and exporters, so your PLY never leaves your device.
The converter shows the output size in millimetres before you download. Set a height to scale it, or keep the original size.
No. STL stores only triangles. For a full-colour print, keep the PLY and colour it in your slicer, or export to OBJ with its texture.
The converter keeps the shape exactly; it doesn't repair it. Slicers fix small holes automatically. For meshes with many open edges, run them through your slicer's repair or Blender's 3D Print Toolbox first.
A PLY with points but no faces can be saved as GLB or PLY. STL, OBJ and 3MF need a surface, so reconstruct one first, for example with Poisson reconstruction in MeshLab.
Yes. PhotoGenius turns a photo or a text prompt into a textured GLB with Rodin Gen-2.5, Rodin Gen-2.5 Fast, Tripo H3.1, TRELLIS.2, Rodin Gen-2 or Hunyuan3D 3.1, which you can then convert here. See Image to 3D model.
Rodin Gen-2.5, Rodin Gen-2.5 Fast, Tripo H3.1, TRELLIS.2, Rodin Gen-2 or Hunyuan3D 3.1 builds a textured GLB from one image. The price shows before you run it.