# Export to OBJ

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/export-to-obj/2832>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [August 29, 2018, 3:41pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/export-to-obj/2832 "2018-08-29T15:41:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![arademacher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@arademacher](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/arademacher)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 3:41pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/export-to-obj/2832/1 "2018-08-29T15:41:50Z")

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Is there plans for exporting to OBJ? I’d like to use Blender to render out some of the things I’ve done and OBJ files are nice because they include material appearance (colors/transparencies) which speed up the processing. STL files work but require more processing since they don’t preserve colors.

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**Author:** ![DanielR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/danielr/32/582_2.png) [@DanielR](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/DanielR)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 3:55pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/export-to-obj/2832/2 "2018-08-29T15:55:07Z")

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Hi - OBJ export is coming very soon. Can’t tell you an exact date, but it’s near

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**Author:** ![arademacher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@arademacher](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/arademacher)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 12:43am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/export-to-obj/2832/3 "2018-08-30T00:43:15Z")

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Great! I’d be happy to beta test this when it’s ready for that.

Thank you,

Abe