File formats
Your files come with you.
What ShaperLab Pro opens, saves, imports and exports. No lock-in in either direction: open what you have, keep what you make, send it to any machine or CAD.
Board files
| .shaperlab | Open · Save | ShaperLab Pro's own document: the whole board with its layers, fins, blank, artwork and CNC settings. Plain JSON, readable by anything. |
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| .s3dx | Open · Save | The current file of the most common shaping software. Outline, rockers, sections, fin boxes, colours and bottom layers come across; what cannot is listed before you save. The original file is never overwritten. |
| .brd | Open · Save | The legacy board file of the same family and of several CNC services. Same rules as .s3dx. |
Scans and curves in
| STL · OBJ · PLY | Import | A 3D scan of an existing board, rebuilt as a clean editable design (outline, rockers, five sections) with the scan kept underneath as reference. Traction pads are found and removed; two-pass scans are levelled as one board. |
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| DXF | Import | A single curve, for example an outline template drawn elsewhere. |
| Probe text · G-code | Import | A measured curve from a probe, or a curve read back from a program. |
Surfaces and meshes out
| STEP · IGES | Export | The board as NURBS surfaces, with fin-box pockets if you want them, at 0.2 / 0.05 / 0.02 mm. For Alias, Rhino, Fusion, SolidWorks and most CAM. |
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| STL · OBJ | Export | The board as a mesh, for 3D printing, viewers and most CAM. |
| DXF · SVG | Export | Outline, rockers and sections as curves, for lasers, plotters and hand templates. |
| PDF 1:1 | Export | Full-size templates tiled on A4 or Letter, and a spec sheet for the customer. |
Machines
| G-code | Export | 3-axis deck and bottom programs in GRBL / generic, LinuxCNC or Mach3 / Mach4 flavour, with your header and footer lines. Multi-axis and disk cutters, mold cradles and hot-wire programs. Every program can be simulated before it runs. |
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Honest limits
- A .s3dx or .brd board keeps its shape exactly; features ShaperLab Pro does not have yet (some decal and layer types) are listed before you save and left out, never silently changed.
- A scan rebuild is a clean design that fits the scan within a few millimetres, not a copy of every bump. The deviation map shows you where.
- G-code is written for the machine profiles above. If yours is not there, STEP or IGES into your own CAM is the safe path.
File names of other products are mentioned only to say which files open. Questions about a specific file: Support.