IV Converter

Extract text from IV files


Drop or upload your .IV file
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How to extract text from your IV file

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

Convert IV to another file type

To convert your IV file to another format, you need Open Inventor or other 3D software.

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

Convert a file to IV

To convert other file formats to the "Scene Graph" file type, you need software like Open Inventor or a similar tool.

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

About IV files

The .iv file format is primarily associated with Open Inventor, an object-oriented 3D toolkit originally developed by Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI). These files store 3D scene graphs, which include geometry, lighting, materials, and camera angles in a hierarchical node structure. While .iv was the technological ancestor to the VRML standard, it is now considered a legacy format. Users frequently experience issues because modern 3D modeling suites like Blender or Autodesk Maya generally drop native support for older SGI formats, requiring obscure plugins or command-line tools like ivToVrml to access the data. Furthermore, .iv files can be saved in either ASCII (readable) or binary (compact but harder to parse) formats, adding a layer of complexity when trying to debug or modify them manually.

To make these 3D assets usable in modern workflows, the most practical solution is conversion. For general editing and rendering, converting to OBJ (Wavefront) is ideal due to its universal compatibility. For 3D printing applications, converting to STL is the standard path. If you are maintaining legacy web visualization, converting to WRL (VRML) preserves the original structure best, as VRML 1.0 was essentially a subset of the Open Inventor format. Less commonly, .iv files may contain I-V curve data from SCAPS solar simulation software or proprietary ultrasound volumes from GE Voluson systems, neither of which are compatible with standard 3D viewers.

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

Users also converted WRL, ZIP, INVENTOR, LDM and IPT files.



The IV 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 IV converter.