Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your BLEND file.
You'll see a preview.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.
Convert BLEND to another file type
The converter easily converts your BLEND file to various formats - free and online. No Blender or extra software needed.
BLEND to OBJ
BLEND to FBX
BLEND to STL
BLEND to GLB
BLEND to GLTF
BLEND to PNG
BLEND to 3DS
Convert a file to BLEND
The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other 3D formats to BLEND with high quality output.
About BLEND files
The .blend extension identifies the native project format used by Blender, the open-source powerhouse for 3D modeling, animation, and rendering. These files serve as containers for entire 3D scenes, storing meshes, textures, lighting configurations, animation keyframes, and rigging data. While .blend files are highly efficient for saving the internal state of a project, they function as a "memory dump" of the software's runtime environment, making them notoriously difficult for other applications to interpret directly.
Because the format is proprietary and binary-heavy, users often face significant interoperability barriers. Standard CAD software like AutoCAD or game engines like Unity and Unreal Engine cannot natively import .blend files without specific plugins or prior conversion. Furthermore, sharing a raw .blend file can result in "pink textures" (missing assets) if external dependencies aren't packed correctly. To overcome these limitations, conversion is essential. For 3D printing, converting to STL is the standard workflow. For game development and transferring assets between software, FBX or OBJ are the preferred exchange formats. For web-based AR/VR visualization, converting to GLB or glTF ensures the model is lightweight and universally viewable.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your BLEND file.
If you want to convert BLEND file to STEP, SKP, MP4, DAE or MAX, you can use Blender or similar software from the "3D Modeling Project" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DWG, DAE, X3D, IGES, WRL, JT, SKP, 3DS, 3DM, OBJ, STEP or FBX files to BLEND, try Blender or another comparable tool in the "3D Modeling Project" category.
The BLEND 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 BLEND converter.