Impact has the capability to import and export many different file formats. These can be broken down into three groups.
- 2D file formats, as used by the File > Import and File > Export tools
- 3D file formats, as used by the File > 3D Import and File > 3D Export tools
- Graphics file formats, as used by the Graphic > Add Graphic and File > Send To > Graphics tools
The following tables detail the different file formats that are currently supported in Impact.
Impact 2D Import/Export file formats:
| Format | Importing | Exporting |
| Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Adobe Acrobat 3D (.pdf) | ✓ | |
| Adobe Illustrator (.ai, .ado) | ✓ | ✓ |
| AG/CAD Kasemake (.agd) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Adobe Postscript (.ps, .eps) | ✓ | ✓ |
| AG/CAD Kasemake (.agd) | ✓ | |
| Autocad Drawing (.dwg) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Autocad Exchange (.dxf) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cadimac (.ima) | ✓ | |
| CFF1 (.cf1) | ✓ | |
| CFF2 (.cf2) | ✓ | ✓ |
| DDES2 (.dde) | ✓ | ✓ |
| DDES3 (.dd3) | ✓ | ✓ |
| DesignPack2000 (.m) | ✓ | |
| Easybender (.dxf) | ✓ | |
| ELCEDE Diecad (.N, .lcd) | ✓ | ✓ |
| HPGL (.hpg) | ✓ | ✓ |
| IGES (.igs) | ✓ | |
| Impact (.ipd) | ✓ | ✓ |
| LVS Format (.lvs) | ✓ | |
| IPDS v4 or earlier (.dat, .lay) | ✓ | |
| Laserline (*.*) | ✓ | |
| Marbach Interchange (.mi) | ✓ | |
| Cimex (.cim) | ✓ | |
| Postscript Image Setter (.ps) | ✓ | |
| SUMO (.sum) | ✓ | |
| Impact JViewer (.jvx) | ✓ |
Impact 3D Import/Export file formats:
| Format | Importing | Exporting |
| Impact 3D Interchange (.i3d, .3da) | ✓ | ✓ |
| 3D Manufacturing (.3mf) | ✓ | ✓ |
| 3D Studio Binary (.3ds) | ✓ | ✓ |
| 3D Studio ASCII (.asc) | ✓ | ✓ |
| IGES (.igs) | ✓ | |
| Stereo Lithography (.stl) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Universal 3D (.u3d) | ✓ | ✓ |
| VRML 1.0 (.vrml) | ✓ | |
| VRML 2.0 (.wrl) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Collada (.dae) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Packaged Collada (.zae) | ✓ | ✓ |
| AutoCAD Drawing (.dwg) | ✓ | |
| GLTF (.gltf) | ✓ | |
| GLTF Binary (.glb) | ✓ | |
| Stanford Triangle (.ply) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Wavefront (.obj) | ✓ | ✓ |
| JSON Document (.json) | ✓ | |
| PRC (.prc) | ✓ | |
| 3D XML (.3dxml) | ✓ | |
| CATIA V4 (.dlv, .exp, .model, .session) | ✓ | |
| CATIA V5 (.catdrawing, .catpart, .catproduct) | ✓ | |
| CATIA Graphics Representation (.cgr) | ✓ | |
| STEP Exchange (.step, .stp) | ✓ | ✓ |
| JT Open (.jt) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Parasolid (.x_b, .x_t, .xmt, .xmt_txt) | ✓ | |
| I-deas (.arc,.mf1,.pkg, .unv) | ✓ | |
| Solid Edge (.asm, .par, .psm, .pwd) | ✓ | |
| Pro/ENGINEER (.asm, .neu, .prt, .xas, .xpr) | ✓ | |
| Autodesk Inventor (.iam, .ipt) | ✓ | |
| Industry Foundation Classes (.ifc) | ✓ | |
| SolidWorks (.sldasm, .sldprt) | ✓ | |
| Rhino (.3dm) | ✓ | |
| VDA-FS (.vda) | ✓ | |
| Siemens NX (.prt) | ✓ |
- Requires optional ‘3DX licence module’
- Enhanced by optional '3DX licence module'
Impact Graphics Import/Export formats:
| Format | Importing | Exporting |
| Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) | ✓ | |
| Adobe Illustrator (.ai, .ado) | ✓ | |
| Adobe Photoshop (.psd) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Adobe Postscript (.ps, .eps) | ✓ | |
| CALS Raster (.cal) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dr. Halo (.cut) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Electronic Arts IFF (.iff) | ✓ | ✓ |
| GEM Raster (.gem) | ✓ | ✓ |
| GIF (.gif) | ✓ | ✓ |
| IOCA (.ica) | ✓ | ✓ |
| JPEG (.jpg) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Kodak Photo CD (.pcd) | ✓ | |
| Mac Paint (.mac) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Macintosh Pict (.pct) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Microsoft Paint (.msp) | ✓ | ✓ |
| PC Paintbrush (.pcx) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Portable Bitmap (.pbm) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Portable Graymap (.pgm) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Portable Network Graphics (.png) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Portable Pixmap (.ppm) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Silicon Graphics (.sgi) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sun Raster (.ras) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tagged Image File (.tif) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Targa (.tga) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Windows Bitmap (.bmp) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Windows Clipboard (.clp) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Windows Enhanced Metafile (.emf) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Windows Metafile (.wmf) | ✓ | ✓ |
| WordPerfect Graphics Metafile (.wpg) | ✓ | ✓ |
| X Bitmap (.xbm) | ✓ | ✓ |
| X Pixmap (.xpm) | ✓ | ✓ |
| X Windows Dump (.xwd) | ✓ | ✓ |