# Export formats

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/export-formats/554>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [November 14, 2016, 8:43am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/export-formats/554 "2016-11-14T08:43:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Be-light](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Be-light](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Be-light)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 8:43am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/export-formats/554/1 "2016-11-14T08:43:30Z")

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Hi team

I thinking about start using your app for my work as Lightdesign in theatre. But will it be possible to export my models from your app in one of this formats:

Timon  
Hi  
Does wyg support any of this formats?  
STEP, IGES and high quality STL. ?  
I haven’t heard of them before, but I’m pretty sure that neither of them are supported.  
WYSIWYG can open the following files straight in the program:

\*.dwg (AutoCAD etc.)  
\*.dxf (AutoCAD etc.)  
\*.skp (Sketchup)  
\*.obj (Wavefront etc.)  
\*.dae (Collada)  
\*.fbx (Filmbox)  
\*.3ds (3D Studio Max)

I would prefer that it is 3D format 🙂

Thanks great job your app looks great, but before I can use it I need to be able to export:)

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**Author:** ![Istvan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/istvan/32/23668_2.png) [@Istvan](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Istvan)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 9:14am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/export-formats/554/2 "2016-11-14T09:14:28Z")

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Hi!

Here is a detailed explanation of these formats: [http://blog.shapr3d.com/export-import-formats-supported-by-shapr3d/](http://blog.shapr3d.com/export-import-formats-supported-by-shapr3d/)

These are industry standard file formats that are supported by all the major 3d modeling systems.

What is wyg?

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**Author:** ![Be-light](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Be-light](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Be-light)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 9:30am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/export-formats/554/3 "2016-11-14T09:30:41Z")

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Hi 🙂

Okay but the program I would love to import your models to is only support the file formats that I have listed.

Wyg. Is the file format the program we a using to draw and simulate lights for theatre,concert etc.

Read more about the program her: [http://www.cast-soft.com/wysiwg/](http://www.cast-soft.com/wysiwg/)

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**Author:** ![Istvan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/istvan/32/23668_2.png) [@Istvan](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Istvan)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 9:49am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/export-formats/554/4 "2016-11-14T09:49:51Z")

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These are all mesh formats (except dwg) so I suppose wyg is a meah modeller. In the linked blog post you can read more about the difficulties of importing mesh files to Shapr, and about why we don’t support it (yet).

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**Author:** ![Be-light](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Be-light](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Be-light)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 10:08am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/export-formats/554/5 "2016-11-14T10:08:40Z")

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Okay ☹  
Maybe I can find a work a round, maybe export from the app to a program that supports your format, and then export from the program to a format that wyg. Can use. Will that be possible and still have the right scale etc. ?

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**Author:** ![Istvan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/istvan/32/23668_2.png) [@Istvan](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Istvan)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 10:16am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/export-formats/554/6 "2016-11-14T10:16:37Z")

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It is really really hard to convert mesh to boundary representation in general. But not impossible, some CAD software can do that, but the results can be unsatisfying quite often.

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**Author:** ![Istvan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/istvan/32/23668_2.png) [@Istvan](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Istvan)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 10:17am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/export-formats/554/7 "2016-11-14T10:17:15Z")

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The output quality quite depends a lot on you input geometry. Can you show some examples?

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**Author:** ![Yepher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/yepher/32/8902_2.png) [@Yepher](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Yepher)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 1:42pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/export-formats/554/9 "2021-01-15T13:42:25Z")

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You could try something like this

> **[Bantam Tools Blog — How to Convert STL to STEP](https://www.bantamtools.com/blog/convert-stl-to-step)**
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> This guide shows you the basics of converting an STL file to a STEP file for your next CNC-machining project.

Your mileage may vary and I doubt will be anything approaching perfect.

I personally have been using this to import mesh into Shapr3D when I really need to modify a mesh body for something.

> **[slugdev/stltostp](https://github.com/slugdev/stltostp)**
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> Convert stl files to STEP brep files. Contribute to slugdev/stltostp development by creating an account on GitHub.