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Supported Import and Export Formats for Metashape Professional.
POSTED 16th OF Jul, 2021
Import & Export Formats for Metashape Professional
If you're looking to convert real world objects into 3D objects for use in your video game, film, architectural or archival project,
Agisoft Metashape Professional is a great option for you. You can create your file from images, point cloud data other meshes and more. But what types of files can you bring in and get out? There are a lot of them and this is an attempt to get them all in one place.
Before we get into the list, if don't own it already, get your own copy of
Metashape Pro.
If you're using images, here are all of the formats you can import and export.
Image Formats
| Input Formats | Undistort Formats |
|
JPG
TIFF PNG BMP OpenEXR JPEG 2000 TARGA Digital Negative (DNG) Portable Bit Map (PGM, PPM) Multi-Picture Object (MPO) Norpix Sequence (SEQ) AscTec Thermal Images (ARA) |
JPG
TIFF PNG BMP OpenEXR JPEG 2000 |
Camera Calibration Formats
| Import Formats | Export Formats |
|
Agisoft Camera Calibration (*.xml)
Australis Camera Parameters (*.txt) Australis v.7 Camera Parameters (*.txt) PhotoModeler Camera Calibration (*.ini) 3DM CalibCam Camera Parameters (*.txt) CalCam Camera Calibration (*.cal) Inpho Camera Calibration (*.txt) USGS Camera Calibration (*.txt) OpenCV Camera Calibration (*.xml) Z/I Distortion Grid (*.dat) |
Agisoft Camera Calibration (*.xml)
Australis Camera Parameters (*.txt) Australis v.7 Camera Parameters (*.txt) PhotoModeler Camera Calibration (*.ini) 3DM CalibCam Camera Parameters (*.txt) CalCam Camera Calibration (*.cal) Inpho Camera Calibration (*.txt) USGS Camera Calibration (*.txt) OpenCV Camera Calibration (*.xml) Z/I Distortion Grid (*.dat) |
Camera Flight Log
| Input Format | Estimated Positions |
|
Agisoft XML (*xml)
Character-separated values (*.txt, *.csv) EXIF meta data MAVinci CSV (*.csv) APM/PixHawk Log (*.log) C-Astral Bramor log (*.log) TopoAxis Telemetry (*.tel) |
Agisoft XML (*xml)
Character-separated values (*.txt) |
GCP Locations
| Input Format | Estimated Positions |
|
Character-separated values (*.txt, *.csv)
Agisoft XML (*.xml) |
Character-separated values (*.txt)
Agisoft XML (*.xml) |
Interior/Exterior Camera Orientation Parameters
| Input Format | Import Camera Positions |
|
Agisoft XML (*.xml)
Autodesk FBX (*.fbx) Alembic (*.abc) Realviz RZML (*.rzml) Bundler (*.out) Inpho Project File (*.prj) BINGO (*.dat) Blocks Exchange (*.xml) VisionMap Detailed Report (*.txt) |
Agisoft XML (*.xml)
Autodesk FBX (*.fbx) Alembic (*.abc) Realviz RZML (*.rzml) Bundler (*.out) Inpho Project File (*.prj) BINGO Exterior Orientation (*.dat) Blocks Exchange (*.xml) Boujou (*.txt) PATB Exterior Orientation (*.ptb) CHAN files (*.chan) ORIMA (*.txt) AeroSys Exterior Orientation (*.orn) Summit Evolution Project (*.smtxml) Omega Phi Kappa (*.txt) |
Tie Points
| Import not available | Export Matches |
| NA |
BINGO (*.dat)
ORIMA (*.txt) PATB (*.ptb) Summit Evolution Project (*.smtxml) Blocks Exchange (*.xml) |
Sparse/dense point cloud
| Input Format | Estimated Positions |
|
Wavefront OBJ (*.obj)
Stanford PLY (*.ply) ASCII PTS (*.pts) ASPRS LAS (*.las) LAZ (*.laz) ASTM E57 (*.e57) |
Wavefront OBJ (*.obj)
Stanford PLY (*.ply) ASCII PTS (*.pts) ASPRS LAS (*.las) LAZ (*.laz) ASTM E57 (*.e57) XYZ Point Cloud (*.txt) Cesium 3D Tiles (*.zip) Universal 3D (*.u3d) Autodesk DXF (*.dxf) potree (*.zip) Agisoft OC3 (*.oc3) Topcon CL3 (*.cl3) Adobe 3D PDF (*.pdf) |
Mesh Model
| Import Mesh | Export Mesh |
|
Wavefront OBJ (*.obj)
3DS models (*.3ds) COLLADA (*.dae) Stanford PLY (*.ply) Alembic (*.abc) STL models (*.stl) Autodesk DXF (*.dxf) Autodesk FBX (*.fbx) Universal 3D models (*.u3d) OpenCTM models (*.ctm) |
Wavefront OBJ (*.obj)
3DS models (*.3ds) COLLADA (*.dae) Stanford PLY (*.ply) Alembic (*.abc) STL models (*.stl) Autodesk DXF Polyline (*.dxf) Autodesk DXF 3DFace (*.dxf) Autodesk FBX (*.fbx) Universal 3D models (*.u3d) VRML models (*.wrl) Binary glTF (*.glb) X3D models (*.x3d) OpenSceneGraph (*.osgb) Google Earth KMZ (*.kmz) Adobe PDF (*.pdf) |
Texture
| Import Texture | Export Texture |
|
JPG
TIFF PNG BMP TARGA JPEG 2000 OpenEXR Portable Bit Map Digital negative Multi-Picture Object Norpix Sequence File AscTec Thermal Images |
JPG
TIFF PNG BMP TARGA JPEG 2000 OpenEXR |