Open IV file

IV files: what are they and how do I open them?

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SGI Inventor 3D format

Files with iv extension are in most cases 3D graphic files for SGI Inventor. Specialized object-oriented 3D format.

Further details:

File extension iv is mainly associated with a 3D graphic format originally developed for SGI Inventor program.

Open Inventor is an object-oriented 3D toolkit offering a comprehensive solution to interactive graphics programming problems.

SGI Inventor's IV format was semi-popular in the mid to late 1990s. A subset of it was used as the basis for the VRML 1.0 file format before that was replaced in 1995 by the VRML2 file format.

MIME types:
application/x-inventor

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Open Inventor

An object-oriented 3D toolkit

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