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What are the XGL and ZGL files?

XGL is a text file format containing OpenGL 3D information written in XML. ZGL is a compressed version of XGL file.

Both these formats are used for communication of 3D designs over the internet - eg. by Autodesk Inventor, Mechanical Desktop and Autodesk Streamline. Inventor support was dropped in version 2018.

You can download the XGL file viewer on Download.

InventorMDT6

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