Convert DAE to PLY
Drop your DAE files and download them as PLY — free, in batch, and they never leave your device.
DAE → PLY: what you should know
DAE is Collada, the open XML 3D interchange format driven by Khronos. It's used mostly in interchange between legacy tools, SketchUp, older engines, digital museum archives, and it stores geometry, scene, materials, referenced textures and animations in XML. PLY, on the other hand, is a mesh or point-cloud format that can store per-vertex color — typical of 3D scanners — the format expected by 3D scanning, photogrammetry, mesh processing (MeshLab, CloudCompare).
This tool converts your DAE files to PLY right in the browser: no queue, no artificial size limit and, above all, your file is never uploaded to any server. Geometry is preserved with the exact coordinates and scale of the original — important if the model is going to be printed or measured.
Keep in mind: PLY stores geometry and vertex colors: materials and textures are lost. If you need to keep that data, convert to a format that supports it (GLB keeps materials and textures; PLY keeps vertex colors).
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