How to View a PLY File Online
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Open the viewer
Head to the home page — it works in any modern desktop or mobile browser.
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Load your PLY file
Drag and drop the file into the viewer, use the Open button, or load it from a URL.
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Inspect and export
Rotate, zoom, change colors and lighting, capture PNG, JPG, or SVG snapshots, or convert the model to another format.
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About the Polygon File Format (PLY) Format
PLY - the Polygon File Format, also known as the Stanford Triangle Format - was developed at Stanford University for storing data from 3D scanners. It represents a model as a list of vertices and faces, and can attach properties such as color, normals, and transparency to individual vertices, which makes it the format of choice for 3D scanning, photogrammetry, and research datasets.
PLY files come in ASCII and binary variants; both open in this viewer. If your PLY contains per-vertex colors from a scanner or photogrammetry tool, they are displayed automatically.