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3D Studio (3DS) is a legacy file format used by Autodesk’s 3ds Max 3D modelling software. It was used in the 1990s before being replaced by Autodesk’s MAX format in 1996. Although MAX is the newer format, you can still open and edit 3DS files through Autodesk 3ds Max and Blender. With them, you can store complete 3D scenes and models, and export the files to transfer the contents between different software with little difficulty.
Autodesk 3ds Max is one of the industry standards for 3D models and scenes, so the 3DS file format has a wide range of use cases, from drawing up architectural schematics to building levels for a video game. And while 3DS files are now superseded by the MAX files, you’ll still come across them frequently if you’re working with a large archive of 3D files.
Autodesk 3ds Max is one of the industry standards for 3D models and scenes, so the 3DS file format has a wide range of use cases, from drawing up architectural schematics to building levels for a video game. And while 3DS files are now superseded by the MAX files, you’ll still come across them frequently if you’re working with a large archive of 3D files.

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Convert to 3DS
Using Zamzar it is possible to convert to 3DS from a variety of other formats
- 3mf to 3ds (3D Manufacturing Format)
- amf to 3ds (Additive Manufacturing Format)
- ase to 3ds (Adobe Swatch Exchange)
- dae to 3ds (COLLADA file)
- fbx to 3ds (Filmbox)
- glb to 3ds (GL Transmission Format Binary file)
- obj to 3ds (Wavefront Advanced Visualizer)
- ply to 3ds (Polygon File Format)
- stl to 3ds (Stereolithography)
Convert from 3DS
Using Zamzar it is possible to convert from 3DS to a variety of other formats
- 3ds to 3mf (3D Manufacturing Format)
- 3ds to amf (Additive Manufacturing Format)
- 3ds to dae (COLLADA file)
- 3ds to fbx (Filmbox)
- 3ds to obj (Wavefront Advanced Visualizer)
- 3ds to pdf (Portable Document Format)
- 3ds to ply (Polygon File Format)
- 3ds to rvm (AVEVA PDMS Project File)
- 3ds to stl (Stereolithography)
- 3ds to usd (Universal Scene Description)
- 3ds to usdz (Zero compression ZIP archive of a Universal Scene Description)