Supported Formats

Manyfold will index lots of different file formats. This page gives the full list, as well as what can be shown in the previews in the Web UI. Files not in these lists will be ignored.

Note that x- and vnd. MIME types are unofficial and may not be used anywhere except within Manyfold.

To request support for another file format, please open a feature request

3D Models

File type	Extensions	MIME type	Static preview	3D view	Analyse
3D Gaussian Splatting	*.splat, *.spz	application/vnd.splat, application/vnd.spz	✅
3D Studio	*.3ds, *.max	application/x-3ds, image/x-3ds	✅	✅
3MF	*.3mf	model/3mf	✅	✅
AMF	*.amf	application/x-amf
Alembic	*.abc	model/x-alembic	✅
Autodesk DWG	*.dwg	image/vnd.dwg
Autodesk DXF	*.dxf	image/vnd.dxf	✅
Autodesk Inventor	*.iam, *.ipt	model/x-inventor-part, model/x-inventor-assembly
BRep	*.brep	model/x-brep	✅
Blender	*.blend	model/x-blender
Cheetah3D	*.jas	model/x-cheetah3d
CityGML	*.gml	application/gml+xml	✅
Collada	*.dae	model/vnd.collada+xml	✅
DICOM	*.dcm	application/dicom	✅
DirectX	*.x	application/vnd.x	✅
DRACO	*.drc	model/vnd.google.draco	✅
Filmbox	*.fbx	model/x-fbx	✅	✅
FreeCAD	*.fcstd	model/x-freecad	✅
Fusion360	*.f3d, *.f3z	model/x-fusion
GLTF	*.gltf, *.glb	model/gtlf+json, model/gtlf+binary	✅	✅
HueForge	*.hfp	model/x-hfp
IGES	*.iges, *.igs	model/iges	✅
Industry Foundation Classes	*.ifc	application/vnd.ifc	✅
LDraw	*.ldr, *.mpd	application/x-ldraw	✅
Maya	*.ma, *.mb	model/x-maya
Meshmixer	*.mix	model/x-meshmixer
MetaHeader MetaIO	*.mha, *.mhd	application/vnd.mhd	✅
Modo	*.lxo	model/x-modo
NRRD (“nearly raw raster data”)	*.nrrd, *.nhdr	application/vnd.nrrd	✅
Object File Format	*.off	application/vnd.off	✅
Open CASCADE XBF	*.xbf	application/vnd.xbf	✅
OpenSCAD	*.scad	application/x-openscad
PLY	*.ply	model/x-ply	✅	✅
Point Cloud	*.pts	application/vnd.pts	✅
Quake MDL	*.mdl	application/vnd.mdl	✅
STEP	*.step, *.stp	model/x-step	✅
STL	*.stl	model/stl	✅	✅	✅
Sketchup	*.skp	model/x-sketchup
Solidworks	*.sldprt	model/x-solidworks-part
Speedtree	*.spm	model/x-speedtree
VRML	*.wrl	model/vrml	✅
VTK Legacy	*.vtk	application/vnd.vtk	✅
VTK XML	*.vtp, *.vtu, *.vti, *.vtr, *.vts	application/vnd.vtp, application/vnd.vtu, application/vnd.vti, application/vnd.vtr, application/vnd.vts	✅
Wavefront OBJ	*.obj, *.mtl	model/obj	✅	✅	✅
X3D	*.x3d	model/x3d
Lychee	*.lys, *.lyt	model/x-lychee
Chitubox	*.chitubox, *.ctb	model/x-chitubox
Dragonfruit	*.voxl	application/vnd.dragonfruit.voxl

Print & Slicer files

File type	Extensions	MIME type	Static preview	3D view
GCode	*.gcode	model/x-gcode	✅	✅

Images

File type	Extensions	MIME type	Preview
AVIF	*.avif	image/avif	✅
BMP	*.bmp	image/bmp	✅
GIF	*.gif	image/gif	✅
JPEG	*.jpg, *.jpeg, *.jpe, *.pjpeg	image/jpeg	✅
PNG	*.png	image/png	✅
SVG	*.svg	image/svg+xml	✅
TIFF	*.tiff, *.tif	image/tiff	✅
WebP	*.webp	image/webp	✅

Video

File type	Extensions	MIME type	Preview
MP4	*.mp4, *.m4v	video/mp4	✅
MPEG	*.mpeg, *.mpg, *.mpe	video/mpeg	✅
WebM	*.webm	video/webm	✅

Documents

File type	Extensions	MIME type	Preview
HTML	*.html	text/html
Markdown	*.md	text/markdown	✅
Microsoft Word	*.doc, *.docx	application/msword, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
PDF	*.pdf	application/pdf	✅
Text	*.txt, *.text	text/plain	✅

Archives

File type	Extensions	MIME type
7-Zip	*.7z	application/x-7z-compressed
bzip2	*.bz2	application/x-bzip2
gzip	*.gzip, *.gz	application/gzip
RAR	*.rar	application/x-rar-compressed
ZIP	*.zip	application/zip

Other

File type	Extensions	MIME type
Binary blobs	*.bin	application/octet-stream
Excellon	*.drl	application/x-excellon
Gerber	*.grb, *.gerber, *.geb, *.gb, *.grbjob	application/x-gerber, application/vnd.gerber, application/x-gerber-job
KiCad	*.kicad_pro, *.kicad_mod, *.kicad_pcb, *.kicad_sym, *.kicad_sch, *.kicad_wks	application/x-kicad-*