What is a .ZAE file?
ZAE is a COLLADA 3D scene zipped together with its textures.
- Did you know
- ZAE bundles a COLLADA model and all its assets into one archive.
- ZAE stands for Zipped Asset Exchange and was added in COLLADA 1.5, motivated by Google to package models for its 3D Warehouse and SketchUp tool.
- A ZAE archive must contain a manifest.xml whose <dae_root> element points to the main .dae document an application should load first.
- What Analyser reads
- Header and metadata extraction for 3D meshes, voxels, BIM, point clouds and Gaussian splats: Wavefront OBJ, Stanford PLY, OFF, glTF, AMF, MagicaVoxel VOX, COLLADA DAE/ZAE, USD crate, X3D/VRML, LightWave LWO/LWS, Quake MD2/MD3/MDL, VRM avatars, Siemens JT, LAS/LAZ/PCD/PTS/E57 LiDAR clouds, IFC BIM, and .splat/.spz - vertex/face/point counts, bounding boxes, units and authoring tool.
- Depth of analysis
- .ZAE is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .ZAE file
- Drag a .ZAE file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.