3MF Consortium – The File Format for 3D Printing
The 3MF Consortium is an industry association formed to develop and promote a full-fidelity file format for 3D printing and additive manufacturing. The consortium came together to rectify the limitations of existing file formats — providing a standardized, more capable format that handles the full range of AM technologies from prototyping to production.
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We’re on a mission to solve the data interoperability challenges of the 3D printing industry by ensuring that all 3D printing product/service providers and end users fully adopt the 3MF data formats to obtain data exchange that is reliable and transparent.
Microsoft had been working on its 3D formats since the early 2010s. Around the same time, HP, Netfabb (later acquired by Autodesk), and Dassault Solidworks had been working on representations of 3D data more optimized for 3D printing. After several meetings, this core team agreed to create a consortium to manage a new standardized format based on the initial 3MF definition. The first 3MF core specification was released in 2015, with the announcement of the formation of the 3MF Consortium. Just before the announcement, Autodesk, Shapeways, and SLM Industries joined the consortium and became the founding members. Shortly after that, Materialise, GE, and Siemens joined. Today the 3MF is comprised of 16 Steering Members and over 20 Associate members that represent the core of the additive manufacturing, design and 3D software industry.
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