XV3 Converter

Extract text from XVL 3D models (XV3)


Drop or upload your .XV3 file
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How to extract text from your XV3 file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your XV3 file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert XV3 to another file type

To convert XV3 3D models to another format, you need XVL Player or other 3D software.

Convert a file to XV3

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


About XV3 files

The .XV3 file is an XVL (eXtensible Virtual world description Language) 3D model file developed by Lattice Technology. It is used for compressing massive 3D CAD assemblies into lightweight files for technical documentation, design review, and web viewing. Internally, these files often use GZIP compression. To open or convert these files, users typically need XVL Player or Lattice3D Studio. The main disadvantage of the .XV3 format is that it is a highly proprietary, closed ecosystem. It requires specialized, expensive software or dedicated viewers to open, making it difficult to share models with suppliers or clients who use standard CAD systems like SolidWorks or AutoCAD. Users often need to convert .XV3 back to standard 3D formats like STEP, IGES, OBJ, or STL to modify the geometry. During this conversion, you may lose lightweight metadata, assembly structures, or material definitions. Because this is a closed format, standard online converters usually fail to process it. Only the original software can properly read or export the 3D geometry data reliably. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.

Convert.Guru analyzes your XV3 file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.


FAQ

If you want to convert XV3 file to , you can use XVL Player or similar software from the "Lightweight 3D CAD visualization" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert files to XV3, try XVL Player or another comparable tool in the "Lightweight 3D CAD visualization" category.



The XV3 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 XV3 converter.