<p>Can the glTF format be used for 3D printing?</p>

<p>If not, is there any tool can convert it to another format such as STL, OBJ, STEP, and IGES? </p>

[{'answer_id': 6892, 'author': '0scar', 'author_id': 5740, 'author_profile': 'https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/users/5740', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>As far as can be found it should be possible to convert glTF into STL (or OBJ).</p>\n\n<p>You could try to use an online converter to do this, e.g. <a href="http://www.greentoken.de/onlineconv/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this one (greentoken)</a>; and <a href="http://assimp.sourceforge.net/main_features_formats.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this (assimp)</a> may be useful too. </p>\n\n<p>According to <a href="https://b2b.partcommunity.com/community/faq/view/211/95/105/0/how-to-convert-3d-models-between-file-formats-i-e-fbx-to-obj-o" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this</a> greentoken supports glTF as input and STL as output, but it is reported by @Trish that that does not work. Assimp could output STL files which then could be used by slicer programs to generate the specific G-code file to print the model on your printer.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 6894, 'author': 'Trish', 'author_id': 8884, 'author_profile': 'https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/users/8884', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>No, <code>gltf</code> is not a format that slicers accept commonly, and indeed, it is not even intended to be reverseable in the 1.0 format version. This has changed a little for the 2.0 standard. Some programs that allow exporting into the sliceable <code>stl</code> and  <code>obj</code> formats can also import <code>gltf</code>:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href="https://www.blender.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">blender</a> has an <a href="https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF-Blender-IO" rel="nofollow noreferrer">importer plugin</a> - more  info <a href="https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/93415/how-to-open-a-glb-or-gltf-file-in-blender">here</a></li>\n<li><a href="https://www.sketchup.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SketchUpp</a> has an <a href="https://www.simlab-soft.com/3d-plugins/GLTF_Importer_For_Sketchup-main.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">importer plugin</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>You have to be careful though: formats like <code>dae</code> or <code>stl</code> are meant to transfer 3d objects usually without the loss of information or with just a minimal loss (stl, for example, does technically not contain a <em>scale</em> natively), while <code>gltf</code> is end users and <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40549453/is-there-a-way-to-convert-gltf-to-dae">does not contain all the information</a>. This can lead to models getting distorted and destroyed on importing them into a rendering or modeling software.</p>\n'}]
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