Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your DME file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert DME to another file type
To convert DME Libraries to another format, you need 3Shape Dental System or other Cad software.
Convert a file to DME
To convert other file formats to the "Dental CAD Library" file type, you need software like 3Shape Dental System or a similar tool.
About DME files
The .DME file primarily functions as a Dental CAD Implant Library for the 3Shape Dental System. These files contain essential 3D implant models, abutment data, and geometric parameters used by dental technicians to design crowns, bridges, and implant-supported restorations. In secondary use cases, a .DME file might be a 3D model used by the Forgelight game engine for PlanetSide 2, a data query definition from Infor Lawson, or a developer file for the BYOND game engine. The main disadvantage of the 3Shape .DME format is its highly specialized, proprietary nature. It is strictly locked into the 3Shape ecosystem, making it difficult to share with dental laboratories or clinics that use competing CAD software like exocad or Dental Wings. Furthermore, these files require expensive, specialized software with high subscription costs to open natively. Standard 3D viewers cannot process the proprietary metadata attached to the implant geometries. Users often seek to convert .DME files into standard 3D formats like STL, OBJ, or PLY for 3D printing, generic viewing, or importing into alternative dental CAD platforms. However, direct conversion usually strips away the proprietary metadata, leaving only the raw mesh geometry. Because the format is closed and domain-specific, standard online converters usually fail to process it. The original 3Shape software is required to properly interpret the full data package. Since the internal structure of 3Shape .DME files is often a standard ZIP archive, our analysis can detect the embedded standard formats, making viewing or extraction possible without the original software.
Convert.Guru analyzes your DME file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert DME file to STL, LME, TMP, TEMP, CACHE, LOG, BAK, OLD, NEW, PART, DOWNLOAD or CRDOWNLOAD, you can use 3Shape Dental System or similar software from the "Dental CAD Implant Library" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DEVICE, CACHE, SOCK, SYMLINK, PID, MOUNT, FIFO, LOG, PIPE, TMP, JUNCTION or TEMP files to DME, try 3Shape Dental System or another comparable tool in the "Dental CAD Implant Library" category.
The DME 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 DME converter.