Additive manufacturing file format

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Additive manufacturing format

AMF icon
Filename extension	.amf
Internet media type	application/x-amf
Developed by	ASTM/ISO
Initial release	May 2, 2011 (2011-05-02)
Latest release	1.2
Standard	ISO / ASTM52915 - 16[1]

Additive manufacturing file format (AMF) is an open standard for describing objects for additive manufacturing processes such as 3D printing. The official ISO/ASTM 52915:2016^[1][2] standard is an XML-based format designed to allow any computer-aided design software to describe the shape and composition of any 3D object to be fabricated on any 3D printer via a computer-aided manufacturing software. Unlike its predecessor STL format, AMF has native support for color, materials, lattices, and constellations.