Modelconvert

Supported formats

The following file formats are currently supported: x3d x3db osg osb 3ds ply wrl bin fhb off raw slp stl jt dae dxf lxo obj x fhb

Loading from URL

The last part of the URL needs to be a valid filename. The system does not handle streaming or extensionless endpoints by looking up mime types or magic chars. Please prepare your data like this

Good URLs

http://somplace.com/models/models.zip
http://somplace.com/models/model.ply
http://somplace.com/models/model.obj

Bad URLs (even if sent with correct mimetype)

http://somplace.com/models/1/obj
http://somplace.com/models/1/view?format=zip
http://somplace.com/models/2/index.html
http://somplace.com/model.list#zip

Textured models

If you need to upload textures with your model, you need to prepare and upload a ZIP file which also contains your textures. Directory names and texture files as well as the refenreces in your models are not touched during conversion and simply copied over. So are any other files provided in the ZIP package. For more on uploading ZIP files read the next section.

ZIP files

You can also upload multiple models in one zip file. In order to discover the models in the zip file, you need to store them at the root level of the Zip archive. This is also true for the metadata which you can also put in the archive. The meatadata filename needs to be exactly like your model filename except for the extension. Make sure you only have relative paths in you Zip file and no back references. Things like z/../../../etc/passwd or similar are filtered out. Nested archives are not processed.

Heads up! Conversion settingsare the same for all models in one zipfile.

Here's how a good zipfile could look:

my_models.zip:
    vase.ply                             <- the model at root level
    vase.json                            <- Metadata
    vase_textures/arbitrary.jpg          <- Textures in subdirs
    vase_textures/texture.jpg            
    skull.ply
    skull.xml
    skull_textures/arbitrary.jpg
    skull_textures/texture.jpg

Don't do this:

my_models.zip:
    mymodels/vase.ply
    mymodels/vase.json
    vase_textures/arbitrary.jpg
    vase_textures/texture.jpg
    other/project/skull.ply
    other/project/skull.xml
    /home/pete/project/skull_textures/arbitrary.jpg
    ../../skull_textures/texture.jpg

Meshlab optimization

Optimization is performed by Meshlab and optional. If you don’t want to optimize meshes, just don’t select anything here.