Click the magnifying glass, or press Cmd Shift F on a Mac or Ctrl Shift F elsewhere, to search the output formats. Type a format such as obj and press Enter to start the conversion.
The whole list also scrolls together, with the scrollbar at the edge of the sidebar.
USDZ files from Convert3D now open in iOS AR Quick Look, and you can place the model on a flat surface.
Textures look right too. Roughness and metalness maps are kept when the material has a value other than 1.
You couldn't share a result from Convert3D without downloading it and sending it yourself. Now you can click Transfer after a conversion, add an email, title and message, choose when the link expires and get a shareable link.
Recipients open the link and see a 3D preview with a download button. You can protect a transfer with a password. Pro adds longer expiry options. Your transfers are listed in one place, where you can delete them.
Transfer is also available after compressing a model and after a batch conversion.
If the format you needed wasn't in the list, there was no way to tell us. The format list now ends with an "Other" link. Type the format you want, press Request, and we see it along with the format you started from.
Convert3D now reads each part embedded in a SolidWorks assembly and adds it to the result, not only the combined shape stored in the main file. If one part can't be read, it is skipped and the rest convert.
Convert3D now passes the exact solid shape between CAD formats, such as SolidWorks to STEP, whenever the source file has one. Smooth curved surfaces stay smooth instead of turning into triangles.
SolidWorks parts now come out smooth in the browser. Convert3D builds the surface from the exact solid shape, so curves stay smooth.
Some parts had come out faceted because Convert3D fell back to the lower-quality mesh stored in the file.
The AI render preview now has a view toolbar. Use it to change how your model is shown before you render.
You couldn't open SolidWorks files in Convert3D before. Now you can upload parts, assemblies and drawings (SLDPRT, SLDASM and SLDDRW), including files saved before SolidWorks 2015.
Convert3D reads the exact solid shape and keeps the face colors. When it can't read the solid, it uses the mesh stored inside the file instead.
Blender (.blend) files are now read directly, for Blender versions 2 through 4, including compressed files. If the new reader can't handle a file, Convert3D falls back to the old one.
A dropped image now shows as a small row with a thumbnail and file name that you can expand, so the Generate button stays on the page on a small laptop screen. The sidebar scrolls when it is too tall, and the delete button is always visible.
The importer now finds the real scene in .max files, so they import with their geometry. Some files had ended with "No geometry found" because the importer read the wrong part of the file first.
Older .max files now import with their geometry, and GeoSphere objects appear at the right size.
MAX files with an object that has no material, or a multi-material with empty slots, now convert.
3ds Max (.max) files are now read by a new importer. It reads Standard, V-Ray and Corona materials, including settings like IOR, transmission and emission, and it puts materials on the right parts of multi-material objects. UV coordinates from Editable Poly and Editable Mesh objects come through as well.
Animations that blend between shapes, such as facial expressions, now match by shape name in a converted FBX file, so the right shape moves.
The FBX importer now has more room to work, so large FBX files can convert.
When an FBX file can't be read, the importer now tells you why.
FBX files now go through a new importer built for better FBX support. If an FBX conversion came out wrong before, try it again.
Lighting now adjusts to the model, so previews of generated models look balanced. The main 3D view uses the same lighting.
AI Create now fits a small screen. On a phone, the form sits on top, the 3D preview is in the middle and your history scrolls sideways along the bottom. A menu button replaces the sidebar, and the download button opens a sheet from the bottom. A dropped image shrinks to a small thumbnail you can expand.
AI Create models now have more detail in the shape and sharper textures.
In AI Create, the download button now sits in a sidebar on the right, the same place as on the converter pages. It used to float over the model.
You can now pick a preset on the render page instead of writing every prompt from scratch. When you start a render, a small card flies down to the history strip, which shows where the result will appear.
Opening an earlier render from your history now fills the prompt box with only what you typed, without the preset wording sent to the renderer.
Reference images you add to an AI render are now scaled down to the size the renderer needs, usually a few hundred kilobytes instead of several megabytes. Uploads are quicker and the detail is kept.
You can now create 3D models from a text prompt or a picture. Start as many generations as you want without waiting for the first to finish.
Your generated models are kept in a history list in your browser, each with a preview image, so you can come back to them later.
Some files are valid but contain no objects the converter can read. Convert3D now checks the result and reports a failed conversion when the scene is empty, so you know the file needs another route. Before, you got an empty file and an empty preview.
The render page now runs smoothly, and the Download button appears when a render finishes.
The progress bar is replaced with a seconds counter, which is a better fit when you cannot tell how long an AI render takes.
OBJ faces with more than four corners are now split into triangles, so models that use them load completely.
OBJ materials are also double-sided by default, because OBJ files do not say which side shows.
After you convert a file on a converter page such as /convert/glb, the download button now appears in the sidebar once the conversion has finished. It was sometimes missing.
The Start over button in the viewer clears your model and resets the viewer. It had stopped working for a while.
AI rendering and image-to-3D now use Google's Nano Banana Pro image model. The prompt also asks the model to follow your object's position and angle more closely.
You can now drop or select several files in Convert, View and Compress.
Some OBJ files stopped loading after an earlier update. They load again.
Every file in a batch now shows its details, whatever its status.
Some USD files stopped the conversion. They now convert.
Convert3D now reads STL files with a different loader, so more STL files convert. An empty or damaged file gets a message that names the file.
You can now see a model's mesh structure in the 3D viewer. A dropdown at the bottom center switches between material view and wireframe.
You can now install Convert3D on your computer as a web app. It lives in your apps, and you can right-click a 3D model and open it in the Convert3D viewer.
Handing a file from the viewer over to Convert isn't possible yet. Compress and render work.
glTF and GLB files that use KTX textures now show and convert those textures. Convert3D turns them into PNG on import and keeps their color settings. The viewer shows them, empty textures no longer appear in the material panel, and texture previews zoom.
OBJ and STL files from a ZIP archive with folders now bring their textures and materials along. The converter matches them by file name, even when they sit in subfolders.
Convert3D now unpacks ZIPs inside ZIPs, however deep, and checks every file for unsupported types.
When you convert several files and some fail, you get a results page. It lists successful files in green, failed files in red and unsupported files in amber. The failure dialog appears only when every file fails.
HMB, IQM, M3D and X3D files now convert. USD files go through the same importer as the other USD formats.
When you drop a file Convert3D can't read, it now checks the file type first. For an unsupported type, it shows a dialog and asks what you wanted to do with the file, so we can see which formats people need.
Files that need special advice, such as MAX, SKP, glTF, MTL, images and Blender files, still get their own help.
