3D XML format is a proprietary zip archive file developed and supported by Dassault Systemes - it contains 3D representation files (like surface data, or a mesh) and a BOM file that can be viewed using a 3D XML player from 3DVIA.
The mesh contains information on faces, edges and vertices - as well as topological data - that can be represented as a surface once loaded using the 3D XML viewer. 3D XML files can also be opened in WinZip when renamed from .3dxml to .zip.
Read more about this topic:
- 3D-XML File Format
- 3D InterOp
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