Let me rant for a second, bear with me. We work with a lot of 3D models, and we noticed how my time just evaporates when trying to wrangle them into the right format for the right medium. Right? Open Blender, save as one format. Open another app, save as another format. Now use a command line tool. Oh, you need Python for this? Spend an hour setting that up. Come back for weird errors when you're ready. At the last step, you realize that you made a mistake and had to start all over. There's got to be an online converter that can do this in seconds, right? There is. And honestly, that thought scared me even more. I have to upload my expensive, proprietary model to a semi-anonymous web server, and they store it there for hours, or maybe forever? It also doesn't help that I have to make my way through a wall of ads. So Jens and I asked each other, how could make 3D model conversion 100% private, but still not an app you have to install? And that's how we went down the rabbit hole of Web Assembly, a modern way to run highly efficient close-to-the-metal code right in the browser. Turns out that's a great technology for converting complex and heavy 3D formats. There's just no uploading—in fact, you can turn off your internet connection after loading the page, and conversion still works. Since we don't have heavy server costs, we decided we might as well make it free AND not run any ads.

Great project! This is something really needed in the industry... I don't know how many 3D format parsers and converters I've written throughout the years!

finally a god send to us all.. a great converter:) some ideas for the future 1)instead of finding what file you need to convert if from have it just automatically find out what file you dropped and then ask you what file you want to convert it to 2) add support for regular usd

This is really incredible. No signups Butter smooth conversations Very easy-to-use website. Some suggestions on UX: That save button's current position on the right top doesn't seem to be the right position. We feel it will be better if we keep the right side but the bottom part of the model preview window. Easily discoverable and straightforward. Thanks, a lot

Please make sure to include essential .max file converters as well, since a lot of us have many 3dmax scenes we would like to convert for other softwares. Thank you.

This is great! I have spent TOO much time looking for a tool that could do this for just one format.

Super useful. Great stuff.

This is Awesome! super helpful indeed Thanks for sharing this with the community. for future updates, it would be great if you added an automatic extension detection instead of manually searching for it.

If you can convert revit to obj, fbx or C4D – take my money.