3DMF Converter

Extract text from 3DMF files


Drop or upload your .3DMF file
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How to extract text from your 3DMF file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your 3DMF file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert 3DMF to another file type

To convert your 3DMF file to another format, you need QuickDraw 3D or other 3D software.

  • 3DMF to STL
  • 3DMF to OBJ
  • 3DMF to FBX
  • 3DMF to DAE
  • 3DMF to 3DS
  • 3DMF to MAX
  • 3DMF to BLEND
  • 3DMF to MA
  • 3DMF to MB
  • 3DMF to C4D
  • 3DMF to PLY
  • 3DMF to WRL

Convert a file to 3DMF

To convert other file formats to the "Legacy 3D Model" file type, you need software like QuickDraw 3D or a similar tool.

  • DWG to 3DMF
  • DAE to 3DMF
  • X3D to 3DMF
  • IGES to 3DMF
  • WRL to 3DMF
  • JT to 3DMF
  • SKP to 3DMF
  • 3DS to 3DMF
  • 3DM to 3DMF
  • OBJ to 3DMF
  • STEP to 3DMF
  • FBX to 3DMF

About 3DMF files

The .3DMF (3D Metafile) is a legacy 3D vector graphics format developed by Apple for its QuickDraw 3D API in the mid-1990s. It was designed as a cross-platform interchange format to store complex 3D scenes, including geometry, lighting, shaders, and hierarchy. In practical terms, you likely encountered this file if you used architectural software like Artifice DesignWorkshop or older Macintosh modeling tools.

The primary difficulty with .3DMF files is severe obsolescence. Since Apple deprecated QuickDraw 3D in favor of OpenGL (and later Metal), modern 3D suites like Blender or Autodesk Maya generally removed support years ago. This creates a "digital lock-in" scenario where valuable architectural drafts or vintage game assets are trapped in a format that requires a Classic Mac OS environment or expensive, specialized translation software like Okino PolyTrans to open.

To make these assets usable again, the best workflow is converting them to OBJ (Wavefront Object) for universal editing compatibility. If your goal is archiving or 3D printing, converting to STL is preferable. For modern web viewing or AR applications, converting to GLB (glTF) ensures the model can be viewed in browsers without specialized plugins.

Convert.Guru analyzes your 3DMF file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted 3MF, 3DF, PICT1, MSWMM and STL files.



The 3DMF Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our 3DMF converter.