Convert OBJ Files on Mac
OBJ (Wavefront OBJ) is a 3D model format using the .obj extension. Consul converts OBJ files to 5 other formats. Rename a file's extension in Finder and Consul handles the conversion automatically.
What is OBJ?
OBJ (Wavefront OBJ) is one of the oldest and most widely supported 3D model formats, created by Wavefront Technologies in the late 1980s for its Advanced Visualizer software. It's a plain-text format that stores geometry (vertices, texture coordinates and faces) and references material properties in a companion .mtl file. Its simplicity has made it a near-universal interchange format across virtually every 3D application.
OBJ files are stored uncompressed. Nothing is lost to encoding, though they can take more disk space than compressed formats.
OBJ was developed by Wavefront Technologies and is an open standard.
Opening OBJ files on a Mac
OBJ isn't among the 3D formats macOS previews out of the box. Native 3D Quick Look covers Apple's USD family (USDZ/USDC), and Preview opens Collada (.dae). Apple's free Reality Converter can import OBJ and convert it to USDZ.